The massive influx of Syrian refugees is galvanizing efforts to reform the mental health system in Lebanon. Rabih El Chammay talks to Fiona Fleck.

The present paper analyses local economic development issues through the prism of urban governance theories and models. From theoretical corpora to empirical LED case studies, we emphasise, through the anarchy paradigm, the privatisation tendencies of urban planning and development projects in local territories. We have taken an interest in comparative analysis of principal concepts and ...

This article uncovers the interactions between Greek War of Independence and Ottoman district Mount Lebanon. forces made corsairing raids on Syria-Lebanon coast, sometimes leading governors to retaliate against local Christians. A more substantial attempt was draw district’s quasi-autonomous ruler, Emir Bashir al-Shihabi, into an alliance with revolutionary Greeks, a major assault Beirut in 182...

In the modern world, government policy makers engage in the decision making process to pursue the interests of their countries. Think tanks play a significant role in this complicated process by giving advice to decision makers. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, think tanks increasingly emerged in the world, especially in Western European countries and the United States of America (...