If a timeline were to present a full picture of displacement and migration trigger events in the Arab world, it would necessarily fill many pages and span many centuries. Understanding…
Lebanon Uprising
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On Tuesday, February 11, Downtown Beirut saw clashes between security forces and hundreds of protesters who had gathered to block access to Parliament ahead of a vote of confidence on…
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On Saturday January 25, protesters came back out in the hundreds to mark over 100 days of the Lebanese uprising, with marches held throughout the city congregating in Downtown Beirut.…
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IN BRIEF Resilience can be learned and developed. The brain adopts different strategies to cope with stress. There are ways to improve individual resilience during political violence. Resilience, or the…
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2016 October 20 Saad Hariri endorses presidential bid of Michel Aoun. October 31 Aoun, backed by Hezbollah, is elected president of Lebanon, ending a two-year stalemate. November 3 Hariri named…
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What are the next steps for Lebanon? Between now and year’s end, what do you propose stakeholders in your field should be doing? “Lebanon should, at long last, find its bearings…
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The unthinkable has finally happened. A stubborn sectarian system, undergirded by a peculiar postwar political economy, and sustained by institutional and disciplinary practices geared toward reproducing sectarian modes of identification…
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Lebanon UprisingReforms
A perspective on the solutions offered in last-ditch efforts of old government
The government’s economic rescue plan has been rendered theoretical. The political context of its presentation reveals real dimension of governance failings in the past two years. Analysis of the plan’s…
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The infographic below is based on data from the Map of Collective Actions that tracks mobilizations by groups of people across Lebanon whose goal is to achieve a common objective.…
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