Helping and worrying in Beirut
A text by Rani Abi Haidar The following text on the humanitarian situation in Beirut following renewed massive Israeli air strikes across Lebanon was written by OIB intern Rani Abi-Haidar, a political scientist at...
Tagged: Lebanon
Research Project: History Writing at Lebanon’s Universities // Dynamics of connectivity under the impact of reform, innovation and political change
By Jonathan Kriener In the winter term of 2010/11, postgraduate students of sociology at the Lebanese University (UL) protested against its newly established Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences. The campaigners claimed that...
Research Project: Negotiating Differences: Pluralism, interreligious dialogue and European organisations in Lebanon
By Stefan Maneval When the Lebanese Adyan Foundation set out to produce a textbook aiming to foster acceptance of religious and cultural diversity, it was planning to create one volume for all religious...
Seminar Series: At the Margins of Wage Labour? Work and Protests in Lebanon: From migrant work to large retail chains
A seminar series by Ifpo, OCM (USJ) and the OIB Organizers : Michele Scala (OIB Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Amu-Iremam, Ifpo) Nizar Hariri, Senior Lecturer at the USJ, Faculty of Economic Sciences This seminar series aims...
Research Project: Lebanese Diasporic Village Communities and their Practices of Reproduction and Community Development
In May 2017, the Lebanese-Canadian House was officially inaugurated as part of the Lebanese Diaspora village in the historic centre of Batroun, a coastal city in North Lebanon. Three successful businesspersons who live in...
Research Project: The Financialisation of Home in the Middle East // A study of Lebanon’s mortgage markets: Tracing regulatory changes
This project by OIB postdoctoral fellow Marieke Krijnen focuses on the increasing interconnections between real estate and finance in Lebanon. Real estate has always been dependent on the financial sector for loans, but the...
Cluster: Higher Education as the Subject and Object of Critical Discourse
The importance of universities can hardly be overestimated. Their numbers have grown massively, as have the number of the people enrolled in them relative to the total population worldwide. They exert multiple functions in...
CfP: The “State” of Lebanon: Concepts of Political Order in Crisis?
International workshop Orient-Institut Beirut, 15-16 October 2015 Though this be madness, yet, there is a method in’t. Shakespeare, Hamlet II, 2. The Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) of the Max Weber Foundation invites paper proposals for...