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Activists Esca** Lebanon: Disruption, Burnout, and Disengagement
This chapter traces the experience of political activists in Lebanon from protests, social movement formation, revolution, to the current moment of...
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Divergent experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Tripoli, Lebanon: a cross-sectional analysis to inform response and programming
BackgroundIn prior studies exploring the experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Tripoli, Beqaa, and Beirut, especially in relation to child marriage,...
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An Initial Assessment of Community Values, Rules, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Mount Hermon, Lebanon: Key Perspectives towards Biocultural Conservation
Mount Hermon, Lebanon, has a long history of human occupation reflected in the landscape and ecology that makes biocultural perspectives highly...
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The Broken Promise of Institutional Psychiatry: Sexuality, Women and Mental Illness in 1950s Lebanon
This article traces the case of Hala, a woman chronic patient of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders (LHMND) in late 1950s Lebanon....
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The ties that bind? Marriage formation, consanguinity and war in Lebanon and Palestine
The paper explores the link between the civil war (1975–1990) in Lebanon and the first Intifada (1987–1993) in Palestine, and women’s transition to...
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The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez’s Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th–3rd Millennium BCE
The aim of this paper is to present the methodology used to study the megalithic architecture of Menjez’s monuments (Akkar, Lebanon), as part of the...
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‘Doing Family’ as a Separated Household: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Lebanon
This chapter investigates the impact of forced family separation upon displaced Syrians in Lebanon and Germany. It is guided by two main research...
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Ecologies of Conflict and Coexistence in the Mediterranean: Seeking Refuge in post-war Lebanon
This chapter draws on the example of refugee displacement in Lebanon to derive broader conceptions on how notions of national identity and otherness...
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The Rise of Private Universities in Lebanon: Strategies for Conquering New Student “Markets”
In Lebanon, since 2005, more than half of tertiary students are enrolled in a private institution. The Lebanese higher education system now appears...
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Ineffectiveness, Poor Coordination, and Corruption in Humanitarian Aid: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon
Corruption attracts scholar attention due to its harsh impact on people and institutions, especially in nonprofit organizations traditionally...
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Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon Between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic
This chapter is based on multisited participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted over the last fifteen years in Lebanon. It aims to...
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Fighting COVID-19 in a Multicrisis Context: The Case of Lebanon
The COVID-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time for Lebanon. In 2019, the country started to witness the most profound economic and...
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Integration of Palestinian Refugee Children from Syria in UNRWA Schools in Lebanon
Following the Syrian conflict that began in 2011, Lebanon received more than one million refugees including 44,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria...
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Pockets of Urban Informality in Lebanon
Lebanon is the smallest country in the Middle East but has major influences in drawing, or at least transforming, the socioeconomic and political...
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The Settings Within Lebanon
In the sectoral frame of family and personal religious jurisdiction, each pathway impacts and has important ramifications for the other and is...
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Tombs of the Pasha and the Grave Politics of Late Ottoman Lebanon
This article discusses a small cemetery on the outskirts of Beirut in Lebanon. The cemetery contains the tombs of two of the nineteenth-century...
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Sport as a Vector to Develop Transparency: The Case of Lebanon
One of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN), the Goal 16, is to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies...
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Care-Seeking and Health Service Utilization for Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Among Syrian Refugee and Host Community Care-Seekers in Lebanon
The Syrian refugee influx in Lebanon challenges non-communicable disease (NCD) management, requiring evidence to adapt intervention to quality care...
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A Multi-Dimensional Measure of Well-being among Youth: The Case of Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon
This paper aims to develop a youth well-being index that builds on the Human Development Index and the human development approach of Amartya Sen and...
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Services to Children and Families in Lebanon
Many services to children are available in Lebanon; however, there is a need to review the role of government welfare structures, specifically in the...