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The Oral History and Memory of Ras Beirut: Exceptional Narratives of Co-Existence
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference Washington, DC, November 2014 The Oral History and Memory of Ras Beirut: Exceptional Narratives of Co-existence Maria Bashshur Abunnasr, PhD This paper is a very condensed version of my past dissertation research and my current project on the oral history and memory of Ras Beirut sponsored by the Neighborhood Initiative at the American University of Beirut. For those of you who do not know Beirut, Ras Beirut is the western-most extension of the city and is most renown as the location of the American University of Beirut (AUB) founded by American missionaries in 1866 as the Syrian Protestant College. To many Ras Beirut is a place famous, indeed exceptional, for its association with tolerance, education, and cosmopolitanism. And that association is largely credited to AUB. The focus of this paper, however, is not on AUB’s role in Ras Beirut. It reverses the lens to consider the local community’s role in making Ras Beirut’s past through what I term, “narratives of coexistence.” Comprised of primarily (though not exclusively) Greek Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslims, Ras Beirut’s local community claims its foundation is based on ta’ayoush, Arabic for coexistence. They consider their history of peaceful coexistence the bedrock of Ras Beirut’s exceptionalism that distinguished Ras Beirut from other parts of Beirut, of Lebanon, and of the region. While they recognize the presence of the AUB as momentous to the future shape of Ras Beirut as a cosmopolitan hub, their narratives insist on the influence, if not the determination, of their 1 coexistence on the missionary choice of Ras Beirut as the site for the College in the first place. -
Patience and Comparative Development*
Patience and Comparative Development* Thomas Dohmen Benjamin Enke Armin Falk David Huffman Uwe Sunde May 29, 2018 Abstract This paper studies the role of heterogeneity in patience for comparative devel- opment. The empirical analysis is based on a simple OLG model in which patience drives the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, productivity improve- ments, and hence income. Based on a globally representative dataset on patience in 76 countries, we study the implications of the model through a combination of reduced-form estimations and simulations. In the data, patience is strongly corre- lated with income levels, income growth, and the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, and productivity. These relationships hold across countries, sub- national regions, and individuals. In the reduced-form analyses, the quantitative magnitude of the relationship between patience and income strongly increases in the level of aggregation. A simple parameterized version of the model generates comparable aggregation effects as a result of production complementarities and equilibrium effects, and illustrates that variation in preference endowments can account for a considerable part of the observed variation in per capita income. JEL classification: D03, D90, O10, O30, O40. Keywords: Patience; comparative development; factor accumulation. *Armin Falk acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through ERC # 209214. Dohmen, Falk: University of Bonn, Department of Economics; [email protected], [email protected]. Enke: Harvard University, Department of Economics; [email protected]. Huffman: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics; huff[email protected]. Sunde: University of Munich, Department of Economics; [email protected]. 1 Introduction A long stream of research in development accounting has documented that both pro- duction factors and productivity play an important role in explaining cross-country income differences (Hall and Jones, 1999; Caselli, 2005; Hsieh and Klenow, 2010). -
Book Reviews / the Levantine Review Volume 2 Number 1 (Spring 2013) ISSN: 2
Book Reviews / The Levantine Review Volume 2 Number 1 (Spring 2013) BOOK REVIEWS Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution, Are Knudsen and Michael Kerr (eds); London: C. Hurst & Company, 2012. 323 pp. $29.95 Reviewed by Franck Salameh Since the end of World War I, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the emergence of the current state system, the Middle East has been racked with military conflict and political turbulence, at times adrift on quests for political frameworks to absorb and manage the region’s cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. Lebanon, for all its perplexities and defects, seemed to have found a workable formula, some ninety years ago. Lebanon’s power-sharing system," says Michael Kerr, "has proved to be one of the most resilient and enduring forms of government the region has known" since the emergence of the current state system; something none of Lebanon’s neighbors have yet been able to attain. Today, as Arabs from the Maghreb to the Persian Gulf clamor for equality, freedom, and representative institutions, casting a searching gaze over Lebanon's successes (and failures) may be instructive, and indeed salutary, for a region in transition facing mounting transformational challenges, and scraping for reform, suffrage, and order. “Lebanon has the task of transmitting to the Western world the faintest pulsations of the Eastern and Arab worlds,” wrote Lebanese parliamentarian, Kamal Jumblat, some seventy years ago.1 Lebanon has also “the task of intercepting—before anyone else—the life ripples of the Mediterranean, of Europe, and of the universe, in order to cast them and retransmit them [… to the Middle East’s] realms of sand, mosques and sun.”2 This is an element of an “Eternal Truth” claimed Jumblat. -
Lebanon in the Syrian Quagmire
Lebanon in the Syrian Quagmire: Fault-Lines, Resilience and Possible Futures Ishac Diwan, Paris Sciences et Lettres Youssef Chaitani, UN ESCWA Working Paper for Discussion The purpose of this paper is to examine the weaknesses and strengths of Lebanon amidst the tensions created by the Syrian conflict that started in 2011. Lebanon’s sectarian governance system has been over 150 years in the making. But the Syrian fire next door, which has taken an increasing sectarian nature, is likely to burn for a long time. With such dire prospects, what is the fate of Lebanon’s governance system? Will it lead the country inexorably towards civil strife? The Lebanese governance system could be described as a horizontal deal among communal oligarchs, supported by vertical organizations within each community. While oligarchs have changed over time, the system itself survived devastating civil wars, endured extensive global and regional influences, and was also undeterred by the projection of power by many external forces, including the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Syria, Iran and Israel. What are the forces at work that make the Lebanese governance system both resilient and resistant to change? In the paper, we use as an analytical framework, which is introduced in section one, the model of limited orders developed by Douglas North and his associates. In section two, we argue that the Syrian civil war is likely to be long lasting. Section three examines the weaknesses and fault-lines of the Lebanese system in light of the Syrian war. Section four explores the factors that continue to contribute to the strength and resilience of Lebanon in spite of the rise in extremist Islamic militancy. -
The Istiqlalis in Transjordan, 1920-1926 by Ghazi
A Divided Camp: The Istiqlalis in Transjordan, 1920-1926 by Ghazi Jarrar Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia April 2016 © Copyright by Ghazi Jarrar, 2016 Table of Contents Abstract........................................................................................................................................................iv Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................................v Chapter One: Introduction.................................................................................................................1 Background.....................................................................................................................................3 Historiography...........................................................................................................................11 Project Parameters and Outline..........................................................................................26 A Note on Sources.....................................................................................................................29 Chapter Two: The Militant Istiqlalis...........................................................................................31 Background..................................................................................................................................32 The Militant Istiqlalis: Part -
Palestine: Reunification by Other Means
PALESTINE: REUNIFICATION BY OTHER MEANS Maj D.E. Turner JCSP 40 PCEMI 40 Exercise Solo Flight Exercice Solo Flight Disclaimer Avertissement Opinions expressed remain those of the author and Les opinons exprimées n’engagent que leurs auteurs do not represent Department of National Defence or et ne reflètent aucunement des politiques du Canadian Forces policy. This paper may not be used Ministère de la Défense nationale ou des Forces without written permission. canadiennes. Ce papier ne peut être reproduit sans autorisation écrite. © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as © Sa Majesté la Reine du Chef du Canada, représentée par represented by the Minister of National Defence, 2016. le ministre de la Défense nationale, 2016. CANADIAN FORCES COLLEGE – COLLÈGE DES FORCES CANADIENNES JCSP 40 – PCEMI 40 EXERCISE SOLO FLIGHT – EXERCICE SOLO FLIGHT PALESTINE: REUNIFICATION BY OTHER MEANS Maj D.E. Turner “This paper was written by a student “La présente étude a été rédigée par un attending the Canadian Forces College stagiaire du Collège des Forces in fulfilment of one of the requirements canadiennes pour satisfaire à l'une des of the Course of Studies. The paper is a exigences du cours. L'étude est un scholastic document, and thus contains document qui se rapporte au cours et facts and opinions, which the author contient donc des faits et des opinions alone considered appropriate and que seul l'auteur considère appropriés et correct for the subject. It does not convenables au sujet. Elle ne reflète pas necessarily reflect the policy or the nécessairement la politique ou l'opinion opinion of any agency, including the d'un organisme quelconque, y compris le Government of Canada and the gouvernement du Canada et le ministère Canadian Department of National de la Défense nationale du Canada. -
The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948
The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948 Master’s Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Ilan Troen, Graduate Advisor In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master’s Degree by Scott Abramson February 2012 Acknowledgements I cannot omit the expression of my deepest gratitude to my defense committee, the formidable triumvirate of Professors Troen, Makiya, and Salameh. To register my admiration for these scholars would be to court extravagance (and deplete a printer cartridge), so I shall have to limit myself to this brief tribute of heartfelt thanks. ii ABSTRACT The Promise and Failure of the Zionist-Maronite Relationship, 1920-1948 A thesis presented to the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts By Scott Abramson Much of the historiography on the intercourse between Palestinian Jews and Lebanese Maronites concerns only the two peoples’ relations in the seventies and eighties. This thesis, in contrast, attempts a departure from this scholarship, joining the handful of other works that chart the history of the Zionist-Maronite relationship in its earliest incarnation. From its inception to its abeyance beginning in 1948, this almost thirty-year relationship was marked by a search of a formal alliance. This thesis, by presenting a panoptical survey of early Zionist-Maronite relations, explores the many dimensions of this pursuit. It details the Zionists and Maronites’ numerous commonalities that made an alliance desirable and apparently possible; it profiles the specific elements among the Zionists and Maronites who sought an entente; it examines each of the measures the two peoples took to this end; and it analyzes why this protracted pursuit ultimately failed. -
Geopolitical Genesis and Prospect of Zionism
International Journal of the Humanities Volume 2, Number 2 Article: HC04-0190-2004 Geopolitical Genesis and Prospect of Zionism Mohameden Ould-Mey, Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Geology and Anthropology, Indiana State University, USA Edited by Tom Nairn and Mary Kalantzis International Journal of the Humanities Volume 2, Number 2 This paper is published at www.Humanities-Journal.com a series imprint of theUniversityPress.com First published in Australia in 2004-2006 by Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd at www.Humanities-Journal.com Selection and editorial matter copyright © Common Ground 2004-2006 Individual papers copyright © individual contributors 2004-2006 All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. ISSN 1447-9508 (Print) ISSN 1447-9559 (Online) The International Journal of the Humanities is a peer-refereed journal published annually. Full papers submitted for publication are refereed by the Associate Editors through an anonymous referee process. Papers presented at the Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy, 20-23 July 2004. Editors Tom Nairn, The Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Australia. Mary Kalantzis, Dean, Education, Language and Community Services, RMIT University, Melbourne. Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of the Humanities Juliet Mitchell, Cambridge University, UK. Paul James, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Australia. Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia, USA. David Christian, San Diego State University, California, USA. Giorgos Tsiakalos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. -
The Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHREYER HONORS COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM TO THEM WE ARE ALL ANTS: LEBANON- FROM INDEPENDENCE TO UNCERTAINTY MOHAMED SALIM RAOUDA BALAH Spring 2011 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for baccalaureate degrees in History and International Politics with honors in History Reviewed and approved* by the following: Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt Professor Emeritus of Middle East History Thesis Supervisor Dr. Catherine Wanner Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies Honors Adviser * Signatures are on file in the Schreyer Honors College. ABSTRACT The evolution of the Lebanese state is marred by the sectarian order established by the National Pact at the time of Lebanese independence in 1943. As of 2011 the current political crisis in Lebanon has polarized the Sunni community supporting the March 14 party and the Shi’a population supporting the March 8 party. Many of their issues have been dragged across history with no clear, long term, solution to address them. As a result, these problems have culminated in today’s political crisis, adding a new dynamic with the emergence of Hizbullah as a major player in the Middle East. This thesis examines the historical roots of Lebanese independence as a tool for understanding the circumstances allowing Hizbullah to gain prominence. Then it aims to analyze recent historical events between the end of the civil war and the present day to draw conclusions about the current state of affairs. Through this historical and political analysis, I will show the reader that over the period of Lebanese history, the opportunity to reform the country and remove foreign influence has been thwarted by the sectarian divisions. -
The Hariri Assassination and the Making of a Usable Past for Lebanon
LOCKED IN TIME ?: THE HARIRI ASSASSINATION AND THE MAKING OF A USABLE PAST FOR LEBANON Jonathan Herny van Melle A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS May 2009 Committee: Dr. Sridevi Menon, Advisor Dr. Neil A. Englehart ii ABSTRACT Dr. Sridevi Menon, Advisor Why is it that on one hand Lebanon is represented as the “Switzerland of the Middle East,” a progressive and prosperous country, and its capital Beirut as the “Paris of the Middle East,” while on the other hand, Lebanon and Beirut are represented as sites of violence, danger, and state failure? Furthermore, why is it that the latter representation is currently the pervasive image of Lebanon? This thesis examines these competing images of Lebanon by focusing on Lebanon’s past and the ways in which various “pasts” have been used to explain the realities confronting Lebanon. To understand the contexts that frame the two different representations of Lebanon I analyze several key periods and events in Lebanon’s history that have contributed to these representations. I examine the ways in which the representation of Lebanon and Beirut as sites of violence have been shaped by the long period of civil war (1975-1990) whereas an alternate image of a cosmopolitan Lebanon emerges during the period of reconstruction and economic revival as well as relative peace between 1990 and 2005. In juxtaposing the civil war and the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in Beirut on February 14, 2005, I point to the resilience of Lebanon’s civil war past in shaping both Lebanese and Western memories and understandings of the Lebanese state. -
Lesson 3 Key • Suggested • Comic • Whiteboard Information Additional Creation • Pcs / Laptops • Comic Creation Resources Software • Headphones Storyboard E.G
MODULE 6. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 3: LEBANON LESSON LEBANON 3. LESSON DESCRIPTION The first lesson in the module will be used to inform students about the complex conflict that has taken place in Lebanon, including the key parties involved. The lesson will give an overview to the types of social and religious issues that underpin the conflict and will explore the types of conflict that have taken place across the country. LESSON INTENTIONS LESSON OUTCOMES 1. Discuss the reasons why various • Be able to explain the various religions and sects have been social and political reasons that involved in conflict underpin conflict in Lebanon 2. Understand how other countries • Employ ICT skills to express an have become involved in the conflict understanding of the topic and how its shaped the Middle East as a whole 3. Demonstrate objectives 1&2 through digital media HANDOUTS DIGITAL SOFTWARE HARDWARE AND GUIDES • Lesson 3 Key • Suggested • Comic • Whiteboard Information Additional Creation • PCs / Laptops • Comic Creation Resources Software • Headphones Storyboard e.g. Comic / Microphone • Audio Editing Life Storyboard • Audio Editing Software e.g. Audacity www.nervecentre.org/teachingdividedhistories MODULE 6: LESSON 3: LESSON PLAN 37 MODULE 6. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 3: LEBANON ACTIVITY LEARNING OUTCOMES Starter – Play Suggested Additional The video aims to give students an Resource 1 which documents the insight into the wider events of the Civil War. Civil War in Lebanon and explore the various people and groups involved. Using the Key Information, teachers will have a choice of activities to engage students. The Key Information is designed to Teachers may choose to split the cover the information within the topic class into groups and ask students to and meet the learning objectives. -
THE POLITICS and LIBERATION of LEBANON by Etienne Sakr (Abu Arz)*
THE POLITICS AND LIBERATION OF LEBANON By Etienne Sakr (Abu Arz)* For 30 years, political events in Lebanon were dominated by Syrian occupation until 2005, when the Syrian army withdrew under international pressure. Yet the national future of Lebanon remains clouded in doubt and tension, as acts of terror against anti-Syrian elements continue, the March "Cedar Revolution" is stymied, and the country totters between freedom and political paralysis and breakdown. Events in Lebanon in the first half of 2005 Lebanese/Maronite-Palestinian fighting in altered the political state of affairs Beirut and Mount Lebanon.3 concerning Syria's long occupation of that By June 1976, Syria also sent its own country. Yet the outcome of these events is army into Lebanon to dominate the country still unclear and fluid. This article analyzes and subdue it to the will of Damascus. the history of the Lebanon issue and Manipulating the complex fighting scenario prospects for creating a new, more in Lebanon, Syrian-Palestinian cooperation equitable and stable order given the against the Christian community became dramatic changes which have taken place. the major motif. For example, in February 1980, the Syrians turned over the western STAGES AND METHODS IN SYRIAN area from Damur to the Zahrani to the PLA, OCCUPATION OF LEBANON along with heavy military equipment.4 On The hegemonic notion of Greater Syria July 20, 1976, following the launching of provides the ideological and historic Syria's direct military intervention in underpinnings for Damascus's drive to Lebanon, Hafiz al-Asad gave an historic eliminate Lebanese independence.1 Among speech in which he declared that its tools in realizing this goal was the "[throughout] history, Syria and Lebanon Saiqah Palestinian faction established in have been one country and one people"--a 1968.