Essays about: "Samir Shalabi"

Found 2 essays containing the words Samir Shalabi.

1. 1. City Margins and Exclusionary Space in Contemporary Egypt : An Urban Ethnography of a Syrian Refugee Community in a Remote Low-Income Cairo Neighborhood

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

   Author : Samir Shalabi; [2017]
   Keywords : Egypt; Syria; Cairo; 6th of Uktūbar City; inequality; refugees; refuge; space; spatial; urban; city; neighborhood; justice; marginality; exclusion; locality; uneven development; ethnography;

   Abstract : Drawing mainly on Lefebvre’s, Soja’s and Smith’s theorizations of space in order to understand the spatial dynamics of social inequality, this study investigates how a low-income Syrian refugee community negotiates its precarious location in a neighborhood on the periphery of one of Cairo’s desert ‘New Towns’. It also examines the way in which urban spatiality shapes the everyday lived reality of this particular community of Syrians. READ MORE

3. 2. Hezbollah: Ideology, Practice, and the Arab Revolts - Between popular legitimacy and strategic interests

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

   Author : Samir Shalabi; [2015]
   Keywords : Hezbollah; ideology; Arab revolts; social movement; framing; terrorism; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : In the years prior to what became known as the Arab Spring, regional public opinion strongly favored Hezbollah due to its principled commitment to the liberation of Palestine. As popular upheavals swept through the Arab Middle East in 2011, this sentiment continued as the movement gave its support to the initial uprisings. READ MORE