• Contracts and retaliation: Securing housing exchanges in the interstice of the formal-informal Beirut (Lebanon) housing market 

  Fawaz M. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2009)

  The current housing policy paradigm supports the integration of informal settlements' housing markets with the larger housing markets. Given, however, that housing production and exchange happen in a continuum of formal ...
• Weaving historical narratives: Beirut's last Mamluk Monument 

  Al-Harithy H. (2008)

  [No abstract available]
• An unusual clique of city-makers: Social networks in the production of a neighborhood in Beirut (1950-75) 

  Fawaz M. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2008)

  This article documents the early development of an informal settlement in Beirut (Lebanon) through the trajectories of the developers who participated in its production, looking specifically at the role that social networks ...
• Sanctioned pleasures: Youth, piety and leisure in Beirut 

  Deeb L.; Harb M. (2007)

  Although Lebanon is portrayed as the Paris of the Middle East as their cosmopolitan young people are identified with the world clubbing circuit, the other side of Beirut, or rather a certain part of it, is also known ...
• Neoliberal urbanity and the right to the city: A view from Beirut's periphery 

  Fawaz M. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2009)

  Drawing on Lefebvre's theorization of space in order to examine the compatibility of neoliberalism and the right to the city, this study investigates how the formation of informal settlements since the 1950s had provided ...
• Hezbollah as urban planner? Questions to and from planning theory 

  Fawaz M. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2009)

  [No abstract available]
• Practicing (In)Security in the City 

  Fawaz M.; Akar H.B. (2012)

  [No abstract available]
• A matter of life and debt: The untold costs of Rafiq Hariri's New Beirut 

  Becherer R. (2005)

  [No abstract available]
• Studio culture-war culture: Pedagogical strategies for reconstructing Beirut's southern suburbs 

  Saliba R. (CAMBRIDGEEDINBURGH BLDG, SHAFTESBURY RD, CB2 8RU CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 2013)

  The article focuses on a critique of three different approaches to undergraduate architecture design studio teaching around the scenario of post-conflict reconstruction in Lebanon following the Hezbollah-Israeli war in ...
• Towards the right to the city in informal settlements 

  Fawaz M. (Taylor and Francis;, 2013)

  [No abstract available]
• Living Beirut's Security Zones: An Investigation of the Modalities and Practice of Urban Security 

  Fawaz M.; Harb M.; Gharbieh A. (2012)

  Over the past decade, security has gained enormous attention in the urban literature, reflecting its visibly increasing presence in cities worldwide. It is now widely acknowledged that security is a structuring force for ...
• Collecting the uncanny and the labour of missing 

  Sadek W. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd; ALDERSHOTGOWER HOUSE, CROFT ROAD, ALDERSHOT GU11 3HR, ENGLAND, 2012)

  [No abstract available]
• The aesthetics of belonging transformations in Hizbullah's political posters (1985-2006) 

  Maasri Z. (2012)

  This article traces the transformations in Hizbullah's media discourse from its formative years in the mid-1980s until the 2006 war with Israel. It focuses on a specific outlet of self-promotion and public mediation-that ...
• Contesting the legitimacy of urban restructuring and highways in Beirut's irregular settlements 

  Deboulet A.; Fawaz M. (Indiana University Press;, 2011)

  The struggle between the state and particular social groups seeking recognition or independence is generally depicted in the context of direct and sometimes violent conflicts such as guerrilla warfare, terrorist attacks, ...
• Under attack 

  Al-Harithy H. (NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2007)

  After the cease-fire, I visited villages and towns in South Lebanon that suffered terrible destruction during the July 2006 war and that were facing the challenge of reconstruction. When I arrived to the border town of ...
• Cast off the past 

  Joseph S. (, 2013)

  [No abstract available]
• Contesting urban modernity: Moral leisure in south Beirut 

  Harb M.; Deeb L. (LONDON1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND, 2013)

  The urban scholarship on Beirut often focuses either on the reconstruction of its downtown area controlled by the private real estate company Solidere, or on its poor southern suburbs (Dahiya) dominated by the Shi'i Islamic ...
• The politics of property in planning: Hezbollah's reconstruction of Haret Hreik (Beirut, Lebanon) as case study 

  Fawaz M. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd; HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2014)

  This research looks at post-2006-war reconstruction of the southern suburbs of Beirut under the auspices of Hezbollah (the Islamic resistance movement in Lebanon). The project was widely acclaimed as an alternative to ...
• Choosing Both Faith and Fun: Youth Negotiations of Moral Norms in South Beirut 

  Deeb L.; Harb M. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2013)

  Challenging both polarized depictions of Muslim youth and scholarship that over-privileges piety as a focal point in Muslims' lives, this article highlights the complexity of the moral worlds of Shi'i youth in Lebanon. ...
• Know thy enemy: Hizbullah, 'terrorism' and the politics of perception 

  Harb M.; Leenders R. (BASINGSTOKERANKINE RD, BASINGSTOKE RG24 8PR, HANTS, ENGLAND, 2005)

  The labelling career of the Lebanese armed group and political party Hizbullah is an interesting case with which to investigate the epistemological consequences of the politics of naming. Having found itself since its ...

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