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Bargaining with Leadership Styles: Women Managers in the NGO Sector in Lebanon

Batlouni, Rayan (2/8/2021)

Sociocultural, structural, and institutional challenges that restrict women’s rights and capabilities are well-studied global phenomena that affect the upwards mobility of women in their careers. This study aims to assess ...
Beirut Mirroring Palestine: Ethnographic Mapping of Two Novels by Elias Khoury (The Little Mountain, 1977 and The Journey of Little Gandhi, 1989)

Madi, Bana Abdallah (2023-09-04)

This thesis falls under the literary anthropology research methodology after my personal experience on how certain literary works by Elias Khoury helped me create an imagination about a lot of spaces especially in Beirut ...
The Clay Remembers: An Investigative Study of Crisis-Era Lebanese Studio Ceramics

Mellendorf, Haloren (2/10/2023)

Pottery is not a new art form in the Levant. Archaeologists in the region have exhumed fragments of clay pots dating back to the late Neolithic period. Yet “studio ceramics” — defined by the modern, high-fire methodology ...
Coffee Reading and Narrative Healing in Bint Jbeil

Dagher, Ghada (2024-02-05)

Coffee reading or tobsir is a common practice among the women of Bint Jbeil in South Lebanon. However, in the official histories of the town, historians and anthropologists were silent on this topic. The main reason of ...
GENDER CONCEPTIONS, WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT, AND HUMANITARIAN TESTIMONIES: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A WOMEN’S SAFE SPACE IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA.

Haji Naif, Rubby (9/22/2020)

In this thesis, I explore the role of Women’s Safe Spaces (WSSs) in shaping women’s conception of gender and personhood. I look at the gender conceptions that WSSs articulate through their services and trainings, and through ...
The House and the Other House: An Ethnography of Kin-work in Publishing

Shourbaji, Soheila (8/19/2022)

Publishing in Beirut is a kinship enterprise. This study examines the nexus of kinship and economics at a small publishing house. Starting with the dream of publishing and the kin-work that rendered it into reality, I study ...
Intimate Allies: Familial Becomings in Beirut

Hajaig, Rabea (1/31/2023)

This study explores the intimate worlds of families and their queer kin in, and around, Beirut. Worlds, which despite being framed by legal and social homophobia have fostered the emergence of supportive family members. ...
A Life of Ambivalence: Exploring ADHD through Autoethnography

Rassoul, Reem (9/16/2021)

The focus of this paper is to examine the complexities of living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, otherwise known as ADHD. This paper focuses on the American context due to the alarmingly accelerated rates ...
Newroz as a Site of Performance: Relating Kurdish Lifeworlds on Beirut's Dalieh

Minick, Kellen (2023-05-17)

Since the outbreak of widespread violence in Syria, Kurdish militias have claimed a large territory of north Syria which they govern as Kurdistan. Regardless, Kurds make up a significant portion of millions of diverse ...
POROUS BARRIERS: HYDRO-POLITICS AND THE ROLE OF EXPERTISE IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DAM PROJECTS IN LEBANON

El Mouallem, Hussein (5/18/2022)

Dams are considered to be temples of modernity. During the past century, dams projects were spreading through the whole world accompanied by the development policies adopted worldwide. Under the current circumstances of ...
There But Not There; an Experimental Ethnography of Elderly Care Institutions in Lebanon During Times of Crisis.

Al Halabi, Nour (9/15/2022)

This thesis explores the notion of elderly care, how it materializes in an institutionalized setting, and what it means for bodies to grow old. It delves into themes of aging, kinship, intimacy, trust, care, and their ...

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