Hanafi, Sari; Currie-Alder, Bruce; Arvanitis, Rigas(Oxford University Press, 2017-09-08)
Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Qatar expanded research funds over the past two decades. The use of competitive calls required researchers to prepare and submit proposals for team-based projects or time-limited ...
Since 2010, there has been a proliferation of literature (newspaper articles and scholarly publications) on the recent uprisings in some Arab countries. This article focuses on the way the academic articles have perceived ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hanafi, Sari(University of California Press, 2013-04)
This article analyses the 18 issues of Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology, published from 2008 to 2012, including some specific variables (submission data, author nationality, article keywords, use of references). While ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hanafi, Sari; Chaaban, Jad; Seyfert, Karin(Oxford University Press, 2012-01)
The majority of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon lives in poverty. This can be observed across a number of socio-economic indicators such as low income and few assets held by the household, poor housing, poor educational ...
This article attempts to demonstrate how the university system and the system of social knowledge production greatly influence elite formation in the Arab East (in Egypt, Syria, the Palestinian territory, Jordan and 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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
Misselwitz, Philipp; Hanafi, Sari(Oxford University Press, 2009-01)
The article will critically reflect on recently launched Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – an initiative that still ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fayad, R.; Shoker, T.A.; Ghaddar, T.H.(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)
We report a new water soluble and stable thiolate/disulfide redox couple (T-/DS) and its use with a new zwitterionic and thiocyanate-free dye (T169) in a 100% aqueous electrolyte system. A DSSC incorporating T169 and the ...
Sakr, M.H.; Halabi, N.M.; Kalash, L.N.; Al-Ghadban, S.I.; Rammah, M.K.; El Sabban, M.E.; Bouhadir, K.H.; Ghaddar, T.H.(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)
Following hydrothermal treatment of the final nanocomposites, a ruthenium polypyridyl dye was anchored to the surface. The total potential reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and singlet oxygen (1O2) production in ...
Three different ruthenium complexes have been synthesized and their luminescence properties in different solvent environments are reported. Luminescence intensities and excited state lifetimes of Ru-I, Ru-II and Ru-III ...