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Middle East CentreAfter the End of the World: Another Season of War in South LebanonIn this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the latest season of war there. In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the latest season of war there. This talk reflects on ecologies of resistance and survival through storms of war and the steadfastness of life after the end of the world.
Munira Khayyat is Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi...2025-05-2356 minMiddle East CentreAfter the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon (Transcript)In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the latest season of war there. In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted long term fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the latest season of war there. This talk reflects on ecologies of resistance and survival through storms of war and the steadfastness of life after the end of the world.
Munira Khayyat is Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi...2025-05-2300 min
Oxford Political ThoughtReligionMadawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’. Speaker(s): Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University).
Convenor: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College).2022-03-021h 27Oxford Political ThoughtReligionMadawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’. Speaker(s): Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University).
Convenor: Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College).2022-03-021h 33
The World Ethnography ProjectWEP Episode 53 Michael Day Reviews Joyriding in RiyadhJoyriding in Riyadh perfectly encapsulates the youth subculture in Saudi Arabia. The author, Pascal Menoret identifies key youth ideologies through a web of informants that he connected with over years of work. Traveling throughout Saudi Arabia, Pascal discovers many complex relationships between the youth, the economy, and the government. In his journey, many issues arise as he tries to investigate the unique relationship between elders and the youth in the steppe of Saudi Arabia. The radicalized youth force Pascal to flee from the steppe to the city of Riyadh. In Riyadh, Pascal investigates the connection between the youth, urban...2020-11-2414 min
POMEPS Middle East Political Science PodcastGraveyard of Clerics: A Conversation with Pascal Menoret (S. 9, Ep. 2)Pascal Menoret talks about his latest book, Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. In the book, he tells the stories of the people actively countering the Saudi state and highlights how people can organize and protest even amid increasingly intense police repression.
Menoret explains, “Basically what happens in the suburbs is that it's a fixed place where people could congregate and create mass movements by the presence or the co presence of their bodies. On the street what you have is moving entities-moving devices-moving tools, automobiles that can be used to r...2020-09-1033 min