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Saudi Arabia, Iran: Resilient Rivalries and Pragmatic Possibilities 23rd Jun 2020 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 dynasty in Iran, the establishment... Read More
SEPAD Receives Additional Funding From Carnegie Corporation
SEPAD Receives Additional Funding From Carnegie Corporation 22nd Apr 2020 SEPAD 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 University) and... Read More
Urban Spaces and Sectarian Contestation: Concluding Remarks 8th Mar 2020 Cities 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 - has long... Read More
Disclosing Reality: Daily Life of Palestinians in Contested East Jerusalem 8th Mar 2020 Adel Ruished, Lancaster UniversityOn 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 the city. In the meantime, Israeli Minister... Read More
More than a fight for a park: How urban spaces in Bosnia-Herzegovina become arenas for contestation of ethno-nationalist politics 6th Mar 2020 The 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 over Varsavska... Read More
Grassroots Activism in the Divided City: Re-Appropriating Space with Art Practice in Mostar (BiH) 5th Mar 2020 This 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 murals -... Read More
Elements of contestation. Sectarianism as extractive violence and Lebanon’s revolution
Elements of contestation. Sectarianism as extractive violence and Lebanon’s revolution 5th Mar 2020 La 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 have experienced widespread protest. The trigger was a new... Read More
Bottling up Urban Space: Unpacking Contesting Sovereign Power and Environmental Insecurity in the Greater Beirut Area (GBA)
Bottling up Urban Space: Unpacking Contesting Sovereign Power and Environmental Insecurity in the Greater Beirut Area (GBA) 4th Mar 2020 Since the civil war, the inhabitants in the Greater Beirut Area (GBA) has routinely been exposed to waste management issues and efforts to regulate them. In the summer of 2015, protesters took to the street after rubbish started accumulating in the streets... Read More
Caste and Caste Based Sectarianism in India 4th Mar 2020 Anderson Jeremiah, Lancaster UniversityThe ancient Indian cultural practice of caste system forms the backbone of Hindu social order. It maps on to the geographical diversity of language, culture and religion, most importantly constructing a distinct... Read More
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