Lebanon’s political set-up differs significantly from that of the region’s monarchical and authoritarian countries. Its consociational system is both remarkably protracted in its sectarianism and
Nora Stel
Nora Stel is Assistant Professor at Maastricht School of Management, a PhD Researcher at Utrecht University’s Center for Conflict Studies, and an Affiliated Scholar at the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. Her PhD research focuses on the governance relations between Palestinian authorities and Lebanese state institutions in informal Palestinian settlements in South Lebanon. Nora has published on the construction and perception of authority in the Levant in several journals (among others: Middle East Policy, Mediterranean Politics, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Development Studies and Conflict, Security & Development). Contact: stel@msm.nl