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A regional conference on "Gender and Communication Policy" in the Middle East and North Africa was jointly organized in Beirut, Lebanon, by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), at the Lebanese American University, from November 9 to November 12, 1999. Thirty participants from eight countries attended theConference.

Covering every psychiatric patient receiving treatment KATCHADOURIAN (Lebanon) provides prevalence data and incidence figures for a six-month period. HES' paper describes a study of the attitudes towards psychiatric hospitals of three groups of immigrants to Israel (Polish, Yemenite, and Moroccan) and presents data on their utilization of medical facilities prior to hospitalization. It was found that prejudice against modern hospitals or reliance on native medicine did not interfere with the referral of Afro-Asian mental patients to psychiatric hospitals. A report by PETROSIAN and his coworkers on the health and related characteristics of four selected villages and tribal communities in Iran highlights the value of psychological tests, as compared with other procedures, in identifying mental disorders in field surveys.

Students, who every night gather at Beirut's "Square of Martyrs" discover that religious affiliations no longer separate them as much as before: enraged about the assassination of Rafik Hariri a new national feeling has emerged. If it survives, Lebanon could become the model for the Middle East. E. Sanchez

Describes the attempt to preserve historical buildings alongside the modern urban designs of Solidère, a private corporation created in 1992 to rebuild nearly 400 acres in the city.

This thesis of social and radical geography focuses on power relations in Beirut through an analysis of the housing of migrant workers in the outskirts of the city. As a population with few resources and subject to stigmatization, African and Asian migrant workers nevertheless try to find lodgings within the capital. Taking a micro and intersected approach to the study of specific neighbourhoods (Bourj Hammoud, Karm al-Zeitoun, Sabra and the Palestinian camp of Mar Elias) and their inhabitants reveals the interweaving of long- and short-term migrant groups and frictions between the commercial interests of the existing community and those, admittedly more chaotic, of newcomers. While the outskirts of Beirut have now become a transition zone, spaces in which new plural dynamics are emerging at various levels, they are also spaces of exclusion and poverty, where the coexistence of these communities is constantly being challenged and weakened by instances of social injustice and civil inequality. This study of mobility, rental accommodation, access to housing and the ethnic economy draws on observations of spaces, interviews with actors and video films and provides insights into the complex realities within a marginal urban population. It also highlights contemporary transformations and local tensions caused by the social, economic and political crisis in Lebanon and the Middle East through the prism of international migration. In fine, this thesis takes a decentralized and ordinary approach to analysing an urban structure usually observed from the perspective of confessional politics and, at the same time, questions the overall Lebanese political regime ; Ma thèse de doctorat s'inscrit dans le champ de la géographie sociale et radicale. Elle traite des rapports de domination à Beyrouth à travers l'habiter des travailleurs migrants dans les marges urbaines. Population aux ressources faibles, discriminée et stigmatisée dans une ville fragmentée, les travailleurs migrants originaires d'Afrique et d'Asie tentent malgré ...