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In 2011, Lebanese youth watched as mass uprisings across the Arab World spread to every media outlet in the region. They witnessed hundreds of thousands of youth in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt come together to demand political change. Eight years later, Lebanese youth...
COVID-19 has hit many parts of the Arab world in the context of spreading into the Global South. This might be the right time to rethink many of the assumptions once garnered about state-society relations in the Arab world in the light of the spread of the pandemic...
Zine Labidine Ghebouli On 22 February 2019, millions of Algerians flooded the streets to demand radical political change. This unprecedented political movement managed to topple the long-ruling president Abdelaziz Bouteflika on April 2nd. However, Algerians’ struggle...
Lina Abou Habib In documenting and analyzing civil activism in Lebanon, the case of migrant women domestic workers merits careful attention and long-term research. Whilst we do have compelling documentation, testimonials, and research on the various forms of abuses...
The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship is delighted to introduce its first three senior civil society fellows: Dr. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay is a Social Anthropologist with more than four decades of solid global research, activism, writing, and community...
Marwan Issa In the last decade, the Arab region went through a series of social movements and turbulences, beginning with the Arab spring in 2011 and a sequence of dictatorial reprisals by the ruling classes or their subordinates. Lebanon wasn’t isolated from these...
In celebration of International Women’s Day, and AUB’s Co-Education Centennial, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, in collaboration with AUB Libraries, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the...
The following thesis will be dissecting and analyze the Arabic version of the dating show Take Me Out, with particular attention to what was deemed as its controversial content. The show, which aired on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI)...
Rawane Hamed A fundamental aspect of achieving gender equality has always been providing equal rights to men and women. Despite seeing some progress towards achieving this goal, women and girls still face discrimination and rights violations every day and are still...
