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The Center for Arab & Middle Eastern Studies
American University of Beirut
and
Ifpo - Institut français du Proche-Orient
Cordially invite you a hybrid book launch and debate
Tripoli, une ville dans la marge: luttes et quête de justice
(Tripoli, a City in the Margin: Struggles and Quest for Justice)
With the author
Marie Kortam - Ifpo
Discussants
Khaled Ziyadeh
Cultural historian & Director, Arab Center for Research and Studies, Beirut
Nizar Saghieh
Lawyer, researcher and defender, co-founder of Legal Agenda
Rana Sukarieh
Assistant Professor of Sociology, AUB
Moderated by
Sari Hanafi
Professor of Sociology, AUB
Tuesday 23 April | 3:30 -5:30 PM (GMT+3)
Conference Room, 4th Floor, Issam Fares Institute, AUB
Zoom link
https://zoom.us/j/92433810482
Meeting ID: 924 3381 0482
Open to the public
The talk and discussion will be in English and Arabic
Abstract
‘No theory can understand Lebanon’: this is the myth that the author sets out to deconstruct. By combining sociological and anthropological theories with a meticulous
ethnography, she tackles the malaise of a city, Tripoli, and beyond that, that of a country. In the face of constant conflict, the neoliberal policies imposed on the city and the elites, what form does the struggle from below take against the absence of public
policy? The question of marginality and inequality is first examined by focusing on Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen – two neighborhoods that are respectively Sunni and Alawite – and the particular spatial practices that prevail there: restrictions on movement
and community appropriation of public space. The study then moves from the local to the national level, and concludes with a framework for analyzing injustices in Lebanon. In this way, Tripoli, a city on the margins, becomes a mirror city of the country, revealing
the mechanisms of inequality and the responses they provoke.
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