The Middle East and North Africa is considered a region highly prone to instability conflict, where religiosity sectarianism assumes prominence. It commonly thought that the source of MENA countries’ troubles primarily political in nature hence they require mainly responses. region’s historical legacies geopolitics entailing foreign interventions would only reinforce such perception but ‘hard p...

The role of confessionalism in the Lebanese healthcare sector, especially since the resolution of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), has yet to discussed at length in reproductive health research. Using biopolitical and structural violence models to describe how community leaders in two low-income neighbourhoods in Beirut describe reproductive healthcare - specifically through judgments of per...

Jihadist terror attacks in Europe, religious sectarianism Syria, Iraq, regional power politics of Saudi Arabia and Iran, tensions between Muslims Christians Nigeria, Ethiopia Bosnia: While those phenomena emerge within their own distinct social, political, economic, cultural context, they also interrelate with another to varying degrees. Accordingly, local socio-political issues intersect relig...

Abstract Ten years on since the Arab uprisings we are in a position to assess how nexus between knowledge, discourse and practice had bearing trajectory of protests. They represented hope change for millions Arabs region, but what extent was that case onlookers Europe US, did western events Middle East matter? While toppling longstanding dictators met with jubilation by populations, it converse...

W. F. BYNUM and ROY PORTER (editors), Medicalfringe andmedical orthodoxy 1750-1850, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 274, £30.00. In their neat introduction to this volume the editors state its programme: to examine "how the relations between regular and irregular medicine have been constituted in particular fields at particular times". Or more specifically: "the essays in this book are n...