Category: Past Events
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Book Launch: For the War Yet to Come
The MSFEA Urban Lab and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut launched the book, “For the War Yet to Come” by Hiba Bou Akar, the assistant professor of urban planning at Columbia University. The writer argues that spaces for urban planning have become “post-conflict” battlegrounds for political…
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Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere Conference
In the midst of geopolitical and economic crises sweeping the region, and between state feminism’s lip service to women’s rights on one hand and the NGOization of activism and political participation on the other, this conference asks: what can feminism accomplish?
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Book Launch: Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East
This book focuses on Civil-Military Relations (CMR) in Egypt, a country that witnessed uprisings calling for democratic change in January 2011, which led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak from the Presidency, the suspension of the constitution, and the dissolution of the parliament as well as the ruling of the National Democratic Party (NDP). Ironically,…
