Lebanon’s October Revolution: Roots and Trends of a Nationwide Protest

Name: Lebanon’s October Revolution: Roots and Trends of a Nationwide Protest
Start: 2020-05-21T12:00:00-0400
End: 2020-05-21T13:30:00-0400

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A webinar with Christiana Parreira, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.

Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.

This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance:

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Date: Thu, May 21, 2020 Time: 12:00pm - 01:30pm Location: Online

Anti-government protesters shout slogans during separate civil parade at the Martyr square, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Protesters gathered for alternative independence celebrations, converging by early afternoon on Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut, which used to be the traditional location of the official parade. Protesters have occupied the area, closing it off to traffic since mid-October.

The talk will assess the structural factors that led to Lebanon's current protest wave, with an emphasis on local governance in the country's urban periphery. It will describe how the parties that have dominated the national government since the end of the civil war engaged in practices that contributed to deteriorating welfare conditions while foreclosing the capacity of outsiders to challenge incumbent elites' power. It will then examine the nature of protests in urban spaces outside of Beirut. For this, the presentation will leverage original survey data collected before then, unexpectedly, during the 2019-20 protest wave.

Lebanon’s October Revolution: Roots and Trends of a Nationwide Protest

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