Anna Simone Reumert is a political anthropologist and a gender studies scholar. Her work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Mashriq&Mahjar, Merip, Kohl journal for Body and Gender Research, Jadaliyya, among other journals. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University, and she is currently working on two research projects. Her book manuscript Future Returns follows Sudanese migrant workers in Lebanon and migrant returnees in subsistence farming communities in Sudan during a time of economic and political upheaval in both countries. Her second project, “Sex in Wartime Beirut”, examines the political economy of sex as a weapon of extraction and control in the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990).