Tamirace Fakhoury is Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also an LCPS Senior Fellow, and a visiting professor at Sciences Po where she was the visiting Kuwait Chair (2020-2022). Previously, Tamirace was an Associate Professor at Aalborg University in its Copenhagen Campus in Denmark. Prior to this, she was based at the Lebanese American University (LAU) where she was the Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution (ISJCR). Her core research areas are the global governance of conflicts and conflict spillovers, power-sharing and social movements in post-conflict societies, migration and refugee governance, and the European Union’s external policy in the Mediterranean. This piece is inspired by her writing project on time and politics in post-war Lebanon in the context of the Carlsberg Monograph fellowship.