T H E   L E B A N O N  P R O J E C T

The Lebanon Project creates focused opportunities for the advancement of inter-disciplinary research and publication on Lebanon. As a state in which post-colonial developments have largely diverged from that of most other Arab and Middle Eastern states, mainstream scholarship on Lebanon has tended to exceptionalize the country’s political, economic, social, and cultural history and contemporary dynamics. Simultaneously, Lebanon’s centrality to a number of regional issues—such as inter-regime rivalries, the Arab-Israeli conflict, refugee flows, and a vibrant publication center make it important to scholars with interests beyond Lebanon per se. The Lebanon Project organizes workshops series, public events, and publication strategies around specific themes to bring together scholars of various disciplinary training, research agendas, and career trajectories. The ultimate goal is to create meaningful links between research engaged in critical scholarship, so that such links can serve to offer a sense of scholarly community, research and publication feedback, and ultimately advance the production of knowledge on Lebanon.
 
Pedagogy
Workshops and Working Groups
Audio/Video
All activities of the Lebanon Project include a public engagement component through organized panel events and curate publications, which are posted within Jadaliyya's Lebanon content. 
The Lebanon Project's workshop output has thusfar centered around the Research Working Group on “State Building, Public Institutions, and Social Mobilizations in Lebanon, 1943-1958," which aims to address this lacuna by bringing together scholars whose current research agenda relies on specific understandings of the pre-war period in general and the early independence period in particular.
The workshop has produced a variety of pedagogical resources available on the workshop webpage. The 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Workshop reading list is available in full and proves particularly helpful as an overview of topical research. 

Highlights

            State-Building, Public Institutions, and Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958 (July 2015, Beirut)
  • Workshop 2
            Annual Dissertation Research Summer Institute ( Summer 2016)