Nadim El Kak is a researcher, freelance writer, and postgraduate student in sociology at the American University of Beirut. He is based at The Policy Initiative, a new local think tank, where he leads research projects on Lebanon’s anti-establishment movement. His current academic research examines the interplay between neoliberal ideology, counterrevolutions, and radical political imaginaries. He is also the author of a chapter on Lebanon’s alternative labor movement in a forthcoming book on the 2019 revolutionary uprising.