With the formation of suburbs around Beirut in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975), a clear territorial configuration was prevalent in the Lebanese geography. Haret Hreik, a part of a specific geographic dominion ...
This thesis is a study of how Shia Muslims relate to Islam in its institutionalised form. I do an ethnographic study of life around mujammaʿ al-Qaim, which is located in the southern suburbs of Beirut popularly referred ...