Browsing by Subject "Middle Eastern Studies"

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Central Asia and the Caucasus

Geukjian, Ohannes (Journal of Social and Political Studies, 2006)
THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE RUSSIAN, IRANIAN AND TURKISH lNVOLVEMENT IN THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

Geukjian, Ohannes (The Maghreb, 2020)

The Arab revolts that began in 2011 led to a major transformation in the contemporary history of the Middle East and ushered in a new pattern of power vying by international and regional powers for influence in the ...
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 ...
MANUFACTURED PRECARITY: HOW A BIASED LEGAL SYSTEM, ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND ENTRENCHED POWER STRUCTURES PRODUCE HOUSING INSECURITY IN BEIRUT

Wilson, Forest (2/10/2023)

Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut has for more than 30 years been subject to speculative investments in land, where housing’s value has been severely tipped to acting as an asset, rather than a stable unit of dwelling for ...
Material Violence & Material Bodies: Law, Precarity, and Gendered Foundations of State Building in Lebanon

Ludwick, Sarah Elizabeth (9/23/2020)

With the promulgation of the Lebanese Criminal Code in 1943, the newly independent Lebanese State designed and implemented its legal framework to control and regulate its citizens by intentionally exposing their bodies to ...
THE OBJECTIVES RUSSIA'S MILITARY INTERVENTION SYRIA

Geukjian, Ohannes (The Maghreb, 2017)

There has been much speculation about Russia's motives for intervening in Syria in September 2015. Certainly, Russia's direct military intervention the Syrian civil war was a foreign policy ...
‘Slums' into Skyscrapers:The Urban History, Spatial Production and Erasure of Beirut's Ghalghoul Neighbourhood, 1840-1970

Altaner, Jan (2/7/2022)

This thesis reconstructs the unwritten history and spatial production of Ghalghoul, a popular, peri-central neighbourhood of Beirut throughout Lebanon’s late Ottoman, French Mandate, and post-independence periods. It is ...
WHY DID RUSSIA'S MEDIATION IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT FAIL IN MAKING PEACE?

Geukjian, Ohannes; Abou Harb, Farah (The Maghreb, 2019)

This article examines Russia's military intervention in the Syrian civil war and the role the regional and international actors in the conflict. We argue that Russian intervention aimed to prevent regime change, mediate ...

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