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In this article the findings from a recent research project on women's perceptions of rape in Beirut are presented. This study, which relied on interviews, participant observation and a review of newspaper articles, illustrates that when a sexual incident involves strangers or the use of physical force, or occurs within the bounds of arranged marriage, it is more likely to be perceived as rape, not as consensual sex.

The following article examines the work of seven visual artists of the first generation of Palestinian refugees whose careers unfolded in Beirut, at thetime the cultural center of the Arab world and "the metropolis of Arab modernity." The two groups of refugee artists - those from the camps and those who became part of Beirut's elite artistic scene - produced works very different in approach and spirit, but which all bore the stamp of their experience of Palestine. While examining the works of these artists in the context of their lives, the paper also highlights the sometimes explicit, sometimes hidden presence of Palestine.

SummaryRecent data do not demonstrate any trend away from consanguineous marriages in the urban Middle East. The continued observance of this preferential custom may correspond to the persistence of an archaic trait among urban dwellers; if this holds true, then one would expect consanguineous couples to conform more to the traditional family pattern than others. In order to test this hypothesis, 100 women married to a relative and 100 matched controls, selected from a hospital setting in Beirut, were interviewed with respect to their household type (nuclear/extended), residential pattern (proximity of parents and parents-in-law's residence to theirs), contacts with family and sex definitions. A substantial proportion of the respondents comply with the traditional norms prevalent in the Middle East (25–55%, according to the criterion), but no difference is detectable between cases and controls in this respect.

In diesem Buch wird eine Ethnografie des Selbst vorgelegt, die anhand gegenwärtiger spiritueller Praktiken im Libanon durch eine bestimmte Emotionskultur verkörpert wird. Es erzählt von einer radikalen Subjektivierung, die als Teil und Effekt gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse bewertet wird. Selbstkenntnis, Selbstwissen und Selbstartikulation werden als eine genuine Erfahrung des Islams gelesen und zugleich als Ausdruck einer inneren Beziehung zur Konsumkultur: Praktiken der Optimierung, Kultivierung, Kontrolle und Inszenierung des Selbst dienen dem Ausdruck eines symbolischen Kampfes um die Darstellung sozialer Positionen. Das Buch zeichnet damit im Detail nach, inwiefern Subjekte neben einer Innenorientierung immer auch eine Beziehung zu etwas ausserhalb des Selbst herstellen. Der Titel, Das Soziale im Selbstbezug, verweist damit auf das, was die Subjekte in ihrem Bestreben, sich primär auf sich selbst zu beziehen, eigentlich zusammenhält

"Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 60s. Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study asks how these historical circumstances shaped local debates in Beirut over artistic pedagogy, the social role of the artist, the aesthetics of form, and, ultimately, the development of a national art. Drawing on a range of archival material and taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines Art History, Middle Eastern, and Cold War studies, Sarah Rogers argues that the genealogies of modern art can never be understood as isolated, national histories, but rather that they participate in an ever contingent global modernism. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, contemporary art, and Middle East studies"--

On August 29, 2016, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Tribunal) sentenced a corporate media enterprise and one of its employees for contemptuously interfering with the Tribunal's proceedings in Ayyash, a prosecution concerning the February 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The contempt decision is significant for two reasons: (1) it adopts an expansive definition of the crime of contempt to restrict a journalist's freedom of expression; and (2) it is the first international judicial decision to hold a corporate entity criminally responsible.