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Research in Arabic-speaking countries: Funding competitions, international collaboration, and career incentives

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 ...
Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship

AlMaghlouth, Nada; Arvanitis, Rigas; Cointet, Jean-Philippe; Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2015-07)

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Writing sociology in the Arab world: knowledge production through Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social exclusion of palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Reflections on the mechanisms that cement their persistent poverty

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 ...
University systems in the arab east: Publish globally and perish locally vs publish locally and perish globally

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2011-05)

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) ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Testing a new paradigm: UNRWA'S camp improvement programme

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reading, Repeating, and Working Through: On Mahdi Amil's Theoretical Practice

Kiblawi, Ziad (2020-07-10)

This thesis examines the writings of Lebanese Marxist theoretician Mahdi Amil in order to constitute the problematic of his theoretical practice. It seeks to address central challenges facing conventional intellectual ...

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