Browsing by Author "Hanafi, Sari"

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Approaching The Qur'an Through The Lens of Muhammad Shahrur: A Critical Analysis

Hallak, Nancy (2022-04-20)

“Read the Qurʾān as if it was revealed last night”, is a statement said and endorsed by the Syrian academic Muḥammad Shaḥrūr (1938-2019). Distinct from the long-established theory that to understand the Qurʾān is to first ...
The Arab revolutions; the emergence of a new political subjectivity

Hanafi, Sari (University of California Press, 2012-04-01)

Since late 2010, the Arab World has witnessed regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; and revolts by Arab citizens are still underway in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, along with reform initiatives at different levels. These ...
The Beirut Coffeehouse and Café

Medearis, Anna Kathleen (2/2/2023)

Beirut, a city with multiple histories, multiple profiles, and contested cultural identities, remains at the heart of cultural production. I argue that the Beirut coffeehouse and cafe shed light on Beirut’s identity, serving ...
The Civil Marriage Debate in Lebanon: Power Politics and Communicative Rationality

Tomeh, Azzam Mazen (9/23/2020)

Beginning of 2019, the civil marriage debate emerged in Lebanon through a media statement by Minister of Interior Rayya al-Hassan. This thesis looks into the civil marriage debate that occurred then, analyzing the argumentation ...
Complex entanglements: Moving from policy to public sociology in the Arab world

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2018-03)

In this article, the author surveys his own career to illustrate some of the dilemmas of research, especially when it assumes a critical and public face. He shows how his work on Palestinian refugees, their socioeconomic ...
Counterrevolutionary Imaginaries: Neoliberal Co-optation in Lebanon's New Opposition

El Kak, Nadim (1/16/2023)

Despite its scale, revolutionary fervor, and temporarily creating a new field of possibilities, Lebanon’s 2019 uprising did not manage to overthrow the country's neoliberal-sectarian regime due to a range of counterrevolutionary ...
Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory: Colonization, separation, and state of exception

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2013-03)

This article argues that the Israeli colonial project is 'spacio-cidal' (as opposed to genocidal) in that it targets land for the purpose of rendering inevitable the 'voluntary' transfer of the Palestinian population ...
Fallen from Grace: Financial Institutions as a Counterrevolutionary Force during the Lebanese October Protests

Youness, Dany (2024-01-31)

This thesis investigates the counterrevolutionary efforts of the Banque du Liban (BDL) and the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) amidst the October 2019 Uprising. Building on Jamie Allinson's counterrevolutionary ...
Flexible Citizenship and the Inflexible Nation-State: New Framework for Appraising the Palestinian Refugees’ Movements

Hanafi, Sari (Springer Netherlands, 2011-08-03)

This paper is a synthetic piece drawn from my writings from the past 14 years on Palestinian refugees' problems. These writings were based on surveys among the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and ...
Framing Arab socio-political space: state governmentality, governance and non-institutional protestation

Hanafi, Sari (University of California Press, 2010-06)

This article proposes a framework for understanding the reconfiguration of sociopolitical space in the Arab world in the last 15 years through the interplay between states’, civil societies’ and contestation movements’ ...
Global sociology - toward new directions

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2020-01-01)

As newly elected President of the International Sociological Association, I unfold my vision for new directions for global sociology. After defining what a global sociology is, I will point out two particular directions ...
Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2020-01)

As newly elected President of the International Sociological Association, I unfold my vision for new directions for global sociology. After defining what a global sociology is, I will point out two particular directions ...
Governance, governmentalities, and the state of exception in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon

Hanafi, Sari; Long, Taylor (Oxford University Press, 2010-05-07)

Based upon data collected from four focus groups, this paper examines life in the Nahr al-Bared, Beddawi, and ‘Ayn al-Hilweh refugee camps in Lebanon from a governance perspective. The authors contend that a lack of ...
Harmful Imagery: A Content Analysis of Popular Lebanese Music Videos

Gaitens, Thomas Andrew (2/3/2023)

This study examines three categories of harmful imagery; violence, substance use, and sexual objectification in the most popular Lebanese music videos performed by Lebanese artists and other Arab artists who collaborated ...
How Does the Color Line Contribute to the Exploitation and Exclusion of African Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Tapem, Magdalene Sophie (2023-05-10)

This thesis rests on the assumption that the racial hierarchization and differentiation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon often result in their exploitation and exclusion under the kafala sponsorship system. Kafala, ...
Human (in)security: Palestinian perceptions of security in and around the refugee camps in Lebanon

Long, Taylor; Hanafi, Sari (Taylor & Francis Group, 2010-10-27)

Based upon over 20 hours of focus groups and in-depth interviews with diverse representation from three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the authors analyse Palestinian perceptions of both Lebanese and Palestinian ...
The ideological positions of engineers in Syria

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 1997-12)

In this article I examine the potential ability of engineers to assert themselves as modernizers, i.e. to define themselves from the viewpoint of their profession, relative to their country's economic development. In this ...
The International Humanitarian Approach To Refugee Self-Sufficiency: Economic Development Programs For Syrian Women Who Are Refugees In Jordan

Moritz, Sarah (8/31/2022)

As international humanitarian organizations shift from emergency aid to the development and self-sufficiency of refugee populations, this thesis seeks to examine the latter approach to understand in what ways its stated ...
The marginalization of the Arab language in social science: Structural constraints and dependency by choice

Hanafi, Sari; Arvanitis, Rigas (SAGE Publications, 2014-09)

This article aims at questioning the relationship between Arab social research and language by arguing that many factors including the political economy of publication, globalization, internationalization and commodification ...
Marginalized Islamic Feminism for Taliban-Approved Policies: Peacekeeping and its Contradictions in Afghanistan

Mazankova, Jana (5/18/2022)

The following thesis tackles Afghan women's safe access to the public sphere in general and dignified employment in particular after the Taliban's insurgency. Using frameworks of Islamic feminism to challenge the Taliban's ...

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