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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Lebanese Civil War"”.
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The legality of Syrian intervention in the Lebanese civil war: 1975-1976
The Lebanese civil war is, undoubtedly, one of the most protracted civil wars that have ever been witnessed in the last two decades. Many interventions have occurred in Lebanon and most of them were the subject of discussion and legal analysis. Of all these intervention, the Syrian intervention has …
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Reviving cosmopolitan Beirut : a case study of three modernist art spaces
Prior to the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut boasted a vibrant art scene. The war took its toll on the city's infrastructure, leading to the relocation and shutdown of the existing galleries and art institutions. Since the war, art in Beirut is being revived along different tracks, in tandem with its …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
The history of Lebanese cinema can be traced back to the late 1920s, but women film directors only became fully active from the mid-1970s, coinciding with the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The war gave rise to a new generation of filmmakers who wanted to document and portray the …
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
Lebanon has experienced war and conflict for the last four decades, yet there is an absence of literature on Lebanese women’s lived experience of the Lebanese Civil War (LCW) (April 1975 – October 1989), and the ongoing conflict that has occurred thereafter. There are limited accounts of Lebanese …
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Solidere : the battle for Beirut's Central District
… Beirut Central District was destroyed during the Lebanese Civil War which extended from 1975 to 1990. Unable to reconstruct the center itself, the Lebanese government turned to a private Real Estate Holding Company (REHCO), known by the acronym Solidere, to take over the task of rebuilding. In …
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
This dissertation charts the production of Lebanese cosmopolitanism from the nineteenth century to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order to understand the strategies of a group of artists who have come to …
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On Cinema and Revolutions: Tricontinental Militancy and the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution
… the Palestinian revolution (1967-1982), the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and the tri-continental connections of solidarity and cultural exchange of the 1970s. In doing so, the thesis explains how furthering knowledge of Third Cinema’s politics and aesthetics, can illuminate not only our …
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Pathways To Civil War
… dissertation is about conflict escalation to civil war, and examines why some political confrontations escalate and why principal conflict actors continue fighting rather than reaching a number of political arrangements at various points of the course of conflict. Unlike previous studies, this …
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Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods
Although the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991 and Beirut became a reunified city, much of it remains divided between a Christian East and a Muslim West. Beyond certain parts of the capital, many of its residential neighborhoods remain almost entirely religiously homogeneous. This study takes an …
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning
Set in Beirut in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), the pseudo-documentary film Tango of Yearning (1998) follows the lives of several subjects who speak of love, loss, dreams, and cinema as they navigate their fragmented postwar city. Directed by underground Lebanese filmmaker …
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Faith based organizations in Lebanon: objectives and practices.
The Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) witnessed the prominence of the voluntary sector through the active involvement of existing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the emergence of new ones as service providers in response to the social, educational and other community needs left unattended to …
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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon
… led the reconstruction of Beirut following the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), this thesis considers and explores the force of the corporation in assembling socio-spatial relations and certain urban futures. Drawing on work in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Geography, I consider the …