Qifa Nabki
Lebanon
Lebanon Bibliography Launched
The crowdsourcing experiment that we ran here a few days ago was such a success that I’m trying to come up with other ways to leverage all of y’all’s ingenuity to solve other pressing problems. (You don’t do windows, do you?) You can find the assembled “Lebanon Bibliography” by clicking the link in the page … Continue reading
Lebanon Panels & Papers at MESA ’09 (Boston)
For those of you in the area, the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is going to be held in Boston next month (Nov. 21-24, Boston Marriott Copley Place; click here for the website). Perusing the program, I see at least three Lebanon-related panels and twenty-four Lebanon-related papers, and I will probably … Continue reading
Put On a Happy Face
The past twenty-four hours have been bewildering, even by Lebanese standards, for all of the mixed signals coming out of Beirut about the cabinet formation. Yesterday, there were widespread reports of “optimism” and a “positive atmosphere” regarding the talks. Today, however, all this exuberance has evaporated in the wake of what The Daily Star is … Continue reading
Favorite Books, Articles, Films About Lebanon
I get a couple of emails each month from readers asking for recommendations for further reading about Lebanon. I typically write back with a brief list of the old standbys even though this has always struck me as rather unsatisfying. What I’d like to be able to do instead is to compile a robust list … Continue reading
Upcoming Political Events in Beirut
Here are a couple of noteworthy events for political buffs in Beirut. Some of you may have seen the announcement a couple of months ago for the 2009 Emerging Leaders for Democracy Conference Series, organized by the Project on Middle East Democracy and several other institutions. There are three conferences in all (Amman, Beirut, and … Continue reading
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