Lebanon Facing The Arab Uprisings

Rosita Di Peri is Lecturer in Political Science & International Relations in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Torino, Italy. She has published in ‘Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche’, ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, ‘Politics Religion and Ideology’, 'The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies’ and ‘Oriente Moderno’.Daniel Meier is Research fellow at CNRS, Grenoble, France, in the EUborderscapes Research Programme and teaches at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interest focuses on border and identity issues in the Middle East. He recently published Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands. Armed resistance and International intervention in South Lebanon (2016).

• Introduction; Rosita Di Peri and Daniel Meier.- FIRST PART: From identification to social (dis)order.- Chapter 1. ‘Willy-nilly we have to live side by side’: Relationships between locals and newcomers at the Syria–Lebanon border; Lorenzo Trombetta.- Chapter 2. The Sunni community in Lebanon: from “Harirism” to “sheikhism”?; Daniel Meier and Rosita Di Peri.- Chapter 3. Rebordering the Lebanese Shi’i Public Sphere; Francesco Mazzucotelli.- SECOND PART From (re)-ordering to nationhood.- Chapter 4. From isqat an-nizam at-ta’ifi to the garbage crisis movement: political identities and antisectarian movements; Marie-Noëlle AbiYaghi, Myriam Catusse, and Miriam Younes.- Chapter 5. “The People Want the Army”: Is the Lebanese Military an Exception to the Crisis of the State?; Vincent Geisser.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Lebanese Welfare in Ageing Emergencies; Estella Carpi.- Chapter 7. Syria’s Refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden, and bone of contention; Are John Knudsen.