The Inaugural Abir Chaaban Award:
In recognition of Abir Chaaban’s life and work, SEPAD announces the launch of an annual prize to go to the PhD student or Early Career Researcher who has made the best cont...
Read MoreThis post was originally published in Arabic on the LAU’s Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution website, available here: Read More
Simon Mabon & Edward Wastnidge
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has occupied a central role in shaping the contemporary Middle East. After revolutionary activities brought about an end to the Pahlavi...
Read MoreSEPAD is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation for a further two years of work, building on the successful first phase of Corporation-funded research. The project, led by Simon Mabon (Lancaster Univ...
Read MoreCities are laboratories in which sectarian divisions are dialectically constructed and contested in constant tension. The premise that sectarian identities are the result of ancient hatreds - primordial expressions of group-based belonging ...
Read MoreAdel Ruished, Lancaster University
On Tuesday 21/11/2019, Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem stuck closure orders for six months on doors of a school, mosque, medical clinic and Palestinian media outlet in th...
Read MoreThe loss of urban spaces has sparked several social movements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans over the past years, from the famous 2013 Gezi park protests in Istanbul to the less known 2005 Peti Park demonstrations in Belgrade, and the fight ove...
Read MoreThis is a paper about space-making practices in divided cities. I approach this topic from a Lefebvrian perspective, which means that I am interested in exploring how creative interventions in the urban environment - such as graffiti art and mural...
Read MoreLa ta7riqoo Lubnaan be l ta2ifiyya
[Don’t burn down Lebanon with sectarianism]
Sign at fire rangers protest, Baabda, March 2018.
Since October 17th 2019, cities across Lebanon hav...
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