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From Community Space to Emergency Response: Beit Aam in Wartime Lebanon
Returning to Emergency Response When the war on Lebanon escalated again in March 2026, civil society groups across the country moved almost immediately to respond. Donation drives reopened, volunteers...
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On Institutionalizing Solidarity: AUB’s Center for Community Engagement
When war, and an ensuing internal displacement crisis, broke out in March 2026, AUB’s Center for Community Engagement (CCE) immediately jumped to work, deploying student volunteers, funding, and...
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Wled El Balad: A Community of Care
Behind every donation there is someone wanting to help, and behind every request there is someone going through loss and uncertainty. Wled El Balad was founded in 2024 with the belief that bringing...
View ArticleSGRI Arabic 2027 – Call for Applications
Applications are now open for the second cohort of the Sexuality, Gender, and Rights Institute (SGRI) Arabic 2027, a regional residential institute developed in collaboration with CREA. SGRI Arabic...
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Showing Up Anyway: Student Volunteers in a Second War
A second response On the morning of March 2, Joe Chalfoun woke up to a reality he had lived before. As President of the AUB UNICEF Club of the Academic Year 2025-2026, the largest club on campus with...
View ArticleRe-Imagining Citizenship in the Arab World
Abstract This background paper examines how citizenship is being reshaped across the Arab world amid conflict, displacement, migration, economic insecurity, digital transformation, and changing...
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Positive Public Administration in Lebanon and the Arab World: Why It Matters?
When people in Lebanon or elsewhere in the Arab World talk about government, the conversation usually turns to dysfunction: corruption, clientelism, endless paperwork, and leaders more interested in...
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دينامية الانقسام ضد دينامية التوحد والتضامن في مجتمعاتنا
استاذي الفرنسي عام 5891 كنت بصدد المراحل الأخيرة من اعداد رسالتي لدبلوم الدراسات العليا في العلوم الاجتماعية في جامعة السوربون في باريس، ولم أكن مقيما فيها بل كنت اسافر اليها كل بضعة أشهر للقاء...
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No Sustainable Peace Without Women
The history of war, conflict, and peace is long and complex. Yet, one basic truth that applies across time, geographies, and landscapes is that the exclusion of women persists. Historically, women and...
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ما بعد التعايش: التماسك الاجتماعي في أوقات الأزمات
من التضامن العابر إلى الثقة المستدامة عبر تجديد العقد الاجتماعي في كل أزمة كبرى، تكشف المجتمعات عن أفضل ما فيها. ففي أنحاء مختلفة من المنطقة العربية، أظهرت الحروب، والاحتلال، والانهيارات الاقتصادية،...
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Beyond Coexistence: Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis
From Temporary Solidarity to Lasting Trust Through a Renewed Social Contract Every major crisis reveals the best of societies. Across the Arab region, wars, occupation, economic collapse, and...
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When Solidarity Becomes Optional
It is a terrifying moment in history to be reliant on humanitarian aid to survive. At a time when humanitarian needs are approaching record highs, aid funding is collapsing. Economic instability,...
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Who Writes the Rules of the Street?
It was a bright morning in Baabda, one of those mornings when the road out of Beirut seems to climb not only into the hills, but into a quieter version of the country. I had gone there looking for a...
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السودان المنسي: الهشاشة البنيوية وعجز النظام الدولي
في ديسمبر 8102، اندلعت في السودان موجة احتجاجات شعبية عارمة، بدأت شرارتها في مدينة عطبرة احتجاجاً على الأوضاع الاقتصادية المتردية وارتفاع أسعار الخبز، لتتحول سريعاً إلى مطالب بإسقاط نظام عمر البشير...
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Forgotten Sudan: Structural Fragility and the Failure of the International...
In December 2018, a massive wave of protests erupted in Sudan. Sparked in the city of Atbara by deteriorating economic conditions and rising bread prices, the protests quickly evolved into demands to...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Political Citizenship for Social Change Program
(العربي في الأسفل)Are you a young activist committed to driving inclusive, strategic political reform in Lebanon? The Asfari Institute for Civil Society & Citizenship at the American University of...
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More Than Aid: Raseef, A Community Space for Countless People
Improvising Help On the first day of the 2024 escalation of the war, there was no formal humanitarian aid plan at Beirut’s Raseef restaurant, no carefully designed response strategy, no large-scale...
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Care, Agency, and Access: Rethinking Sexual Health in Times of Need
“When people become in charge of their sexual agency, they have gone a long way culturally and intellectually, and in terms of self-assertiveness.” A Mission Toward Sexual Agency For Dr. Faysal El...
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إعادة تصور المواطنة: مفتاح مستقبل لبنان
قد تكون المواطنة واحدة من أكثر المفاهيم والممارسات تعقيداً من حيث التعريف في لبنان، وهو بلد يتسم بالتنوع والانقسام في آن واحد. ورغم أن المواطنة محددة بوضوح في الكتب المدرسية والدستور، فإنه من غير...
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Reimagining citizenship is key to Lebanon’s future
Citizenship may well be one of the most complex concepts and practice to define in Lebanon, a country that is both diverse and fractured. Whilst clearly delineated in textbooks and in the...
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