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My research for this book started as a PhD thesis, which I defended at Sciences Po Paris in 2015. I consider it important to publish a book about Tripoli, a city long neglected in the literature—the most recent 

We have been working for the past few years on a large oral history project about women and the Lebanese Civil War, doing interviews, collecting information, and listening to stories. For the larger project, we spoke to about fifty women about various aspects o..

The basic themes of this book emerged during my time in the Committee on International Relations MA program at the University of Chicago. When I started the program in late summer of 2008, both academics and policymakers were consumed with analyzing the war in ..

On 23 March 2020, Lebanon’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) announced it will “discontinue payment on all its outstanding foreign curr..

In November 2019, Lebanese banks imposed severe restrictions on the ability of local depositors to make cash withdrawals and international transfers from their dollar accounts. As of February 2020, Lebanese banks doubled down on their “capital control” policies, transforming their weekly limits ..

In this timely interview with Ziad Abu-Rish, VOMENA's Shahram Aghamir asks about Lebanon's economic crisis, it's worst in decades. Part 1 features discussion on the roots of the economic crisis and its connection to developmental failures. Part 2 centers on the protest movement and the implicati..

This special collection of articles is based on an interdisciplinary symposium held at University College London in June 2019. The event concluded the project "Public Services and Vulnerability in the Lebanese Context of Large-Scale Displacement," a collaboration between researchers at Universit..

In response to the added financial and other stresses facing students whose funding sources are based in Lebanon, the Board of the Lebanese Studies Association has written a letter encouraging academic institutions to do what they can to support these students. The letter is below the jump, and ..

Nearly two months have passed since the revolution started in Lebanon. The sectarian regime, the politicians who guard and sustain it, and the quick-fix economic policies that leave the rich richer and the poor poorer—they all still stand. While Lebanese people are taking to the streets daily, b..

All constitutions are flawed, even (or especially) those that are treated as particularly sacrosanct—such as the US Constitution. The recent protest movement in Lebanon, which began on 17 October 2019, has generated renewed interest in the Lebanese constitution—with a lot of what might be called..

On Thursday 17 October 2019, thousands of exasperated Lebanese citizens took to the streets of Beirut in protest. The spark was the government’s latest plan to impose taxes on the popular and free app..

I came to migration history originally because I was motivated by silences I observed in place-based histories and I wanted to examine how, when, and why migrants are removed from the historical record. I was unsatisfied with narratives of migration that begin ..

Until recently, the prolific urban research on Beirut and Lebanese cities ignored, almost entirely, issues related to networked

While there was genuine hope that adopting a proportional representation system could pave the way for political reform in Lebanon, its impact was largely confined to shifting the balance of power among the same political elite. Many of the new faces in Lebanon’s recently-elected parliamen..

While providing services and buying votes is an integral part of the electoral process in Lebanon, political parties have complemented these measures with other tactics which give them an advantage in the final vote count. To understand this process in more detail, LCPS, with the support of the ..

War is often understood as a temporally bounded event. A war begins, and eventually it ends. In the process, people are killed, maimed, starved, and traumatized; infrastructure is damaged; and life-worlds are destroyed. In such context, survival, not life, becomes the goal. Yet..

Carol Hakim, The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea, 1840–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

[This review was orginally published in the Spring 2017 issue of the Arab Studies Journal. F..

[On 31 October 2016, Michel Aoun was elected to the Lebanese presidency by a parliamentary majority. Aoun’s election ended a period of two years during which Lebanon functioned without a head of state on account of the inability of the country’s rival political coalitions to agree on a candi..

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[The book A Lebanese Archive by Ania Dabrowska, from the collection of Diab Alkarssifi, was published by Book Works and Arab Image Foundation, 2015.]..

Last month, Salma Hayek visited Lebanon to promote the world premiere of The Prophet, the new animated film based on the poetry of Khalil Gibran. It was her first ever visit to the country.  The Lebanese greeted her with open..

In this video, we visit Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin in his studio in Beirut. He tells us about his ongoing interest in Egyptian cinema and how he uses it as a reference for many of his art projects be they video, photography, sound, installation o..