• The Arab region’s contribution to global mental health research (2009–2018): A bibliometric analysis 

  Zeinoun, Pia; Akl, Elie A.; Maalouf, Fadi T.; Meho, Lokman I. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)

  Background: Mental health research output in the Arab region is increasing, yet little is known about its recent landscape. This study provides a bibliometric analysis of mental health research in all 22 Arab countries ...
• Stakeholders’ perspectives on strategies for the recruitment and retention of primary health care employees in Qatar: A qualitative approach 

  Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Yassoub, Rami; Mourad, Yara; Khodr, Hiba (SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)

  This study explores the recruitment and retention conditions influencing primary health care (PHC) human resources for health (HRH) in Qatar and suggests strategies for their improvement. A qualitative design employing ...
• Investigating the job satisfaction of healthcare providers at primary healthcare centres in Lebanon: A national cross-sectional study 

  Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Baroud, Maysa; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Hamadeh, Randa Sami; Ammar, Walid S.; Shoaib, Hikma A.; Khodr, Hiba (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)

  Low job satisfaction is linked to higher staff turnover and intensified shortages in healthcare providers (HCP). This study investigates the level of, and factors associated with, HCP job satisfaction in the national primary ...
• Upscaling the recruitment and retention of human resources for health at primary healthcare centres in Lebanon: A qualitative study 

  Alameddine, Mohamad S.; Khodr, Hiba; Mourad, Yara; Yassoub, Rami; Abi Ramia, Jinane (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)

  The sustainability of primary healthcare (PHC) worldwide has been challenged by a global shortage in human resources for health (HRH). This study is a unique attempt at systematically soliciting and synthesising the voice ...
• Health and ecological sustainability in the Arab world: A matter of survival 

  El-Zein, Abbas H.; Jabbour, Samer; Tekçe, Belgin; Zurayk, Huda C.; Nuwayhid, Iman A.; Khawaja, Marwan K.; Tell, Tariq; Al-Mooji, Yusuf; DeJong, Jocelyn; Yassin, Nasser; Hogan, Dennis P. (Elsevier B.V., 2014)

  Discussions leading to the Rio+20 UN conference have emphasised the importance of sustainable development and the protection of the environment for future generations. The Arab world faces large-scale threats to its ...
• Navigating Dahiyeh, negotiating everyday peace: mediation practices across Beirut’s Southern Suburbs 

  Smaira, Dima; Gunning, Jeroen (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)

  How do ‘ordinary’ residents in violently contested cities navigate everyday conflict? Who do they turn to and how do they induce more powerful actors to step in and resolve their conflicts? How do socio-spatial structures ...
• Decolonizing the Responsibility to Protect: On pervasive Eurocentrism, Southern agency and struggles over universals 

  Pison Hindawi, Coralie (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022)

  Many postcolonial or critical scholars are rather sceptical of the Responsibility to Protect principle. In most of the critical literature, Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is presented as a product from the West, whose ...
• Governance of the nonprofit sector in Lebanon between theory and practice 

  Haddad, Tania N. (Routledge, 2023)

  Non Profit associations in Lebanon are governed by the 1909 Law of Associations, an Ottoman law predating the creation of the state that was based on the French law of associations. The main aim of this paper is to assess ...
• Manufactured regional crises: The Middle East and North Africa under global food regimes 

  Riachi, Roland; Martiniello, Giuliano (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)

  The current agrarian and food crisis in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has been interpreted through a number of tropes. Within the dominant mainstream discourse, the MENA region is often depicted as a homogenous ...
• Interorganizational Relation in Disaster Response in Developing Context: Assessing Response to Beirut Explosion 

  Haddad, Tania N.; Sakr, Tracy (Springer, 2023)

  This paper focuses on the role of local community organizations in disaster management following the Beirut explosion of August 4, 2020. It answers the following question: How can interorganizational relationships be ...
• A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea 

  Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023)

  This article draws on fieldwork, interviews, and archival research on the maritime campaign of the International Palestine Solidarity Movement to challenge the embargo on Gaza. I make three main arguments: first, in ...
• Risks to Persian Gulf Cities from Spent Fuel Fires at the Barakah and Bushehr Nuclear Power Plants 

  Spence, Thomas G.A.S.; Ahmad, Ali (Routledge, 2021)

  Interest in nuclear power has grown in some Middle Eastern states despite poor economics, seismic activity, and attacks on nuclear facilities in the region. This article assesses risks from cesium-137 release and dispersal ...
• Religious Welfare Organizations, Citizenship, and the State in Lebanon 

  Haddad, Tania N. (De Gruyter Open Ltd, 2020)

  Religious welfare organizations (RWOs) are considered the leading providers of services in Lebanon, with annual budgets exceeding those of state service ministries. While the religious nature of Lebanese society contributes ...
• Intergenerational place-based digital storytelling: a more-than-visual research method 

  Marshall, David Jones; Smaira, Dima; Staeheli, Lynn A. (Routledge, 2022)

  The use of visual research methods with young people—such as photo diaries and mental mapping—risks reproducing a focus on local-scale micro-politics at the expense of broader contextualization. We contend that combining ...
• Who you gonna call? Theorising everyday security practices in urban spaces with multiple security actors – The case of Beirut's Southern Suburbs 

  Gunning, Jeroen; Smaira, Dima (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  Who do urban residents turn to in everyday security incidents? Why do some go to the police in certain locations, others to armed nonstate actors or kinship networks? We explore the ways in which residents and security ...
• Politics, economics, Ricardus Haber and environmental policy in Lebanon 

  Khodr, Hiba; Awwad, Nouhad (Routledge, 2022)

  Unsustainable dependence on natural resources combined with the absence of strict regulation and political stability have battered the environment of Lebanon. Examining the work of Ricardus Haber, we analyse how local ...
• Syrian refugees, water scarcity, and dynamic policies: How do the new refugee discourses impact water governance debates in Lebanon and Jordan? 

  Hussein, Hussam; Natta, Alberto; Yehya, Abed Al Kareem; Hamadna, Baha (MDPI AG, 2020)

  Since the Syrian crisis and the so-called Arab Spring, new discourses have been created, sparking the discursive water governance debates around water scarcity and hydropolitics. In Lebanon and Jordan-where most water ...
• Postmodern paper tiger: Lyotard, Baudrillard, and the contemporary politics of poststructuralist subversion 

  Goodfield, Eric Lee (Duke University Press, 2020)

  For most contemporary theorists, the death of postmodern thought as a theoretical impulse and critical divide has become a given. Yet, since the end of the 1990s a variety of important strands of social and political thought ...
• The Politics of Teaching International Relations in the Arab World: Reading Walt in Beirut, Wendt in Doha, and Abul-Fadl in Cairo 

  Darwich, May; Valbjorn, Morten; Salloukh, Bassel F.; Hazbun, Waleed; Samra, Amira Abu; Saddiki, Said; Saouli, Adham; Albloshi, Hamad H.; Makdisi, Karim (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Can International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an American social scienceor is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what ...
• Capitalism at Sea Introduction: A Trident of Forces 

  Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas (Duke University Press, 2022)

  In its will to tame the sea, its routes, and people, capitalism unleashed three intertwined forces: novel networks of circulation, refurbished regimes of violence, and new epistemic disciplines and lexicons, all twirled ...

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