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  • 'Ashura in Sydney 
    Tabar, Paul (2016-03-31)
    'Ashura is a Shi'i religious ceremony organised yearly by the Moslem Shi'is around the world. The Shi'is in Sydney have been commemorating 'Ashura in an increasingly elaborate and sophisticated manner. The aim of this paper ...
  • Bourdieu in Beirut 
    Tabar, Paul; Egan, Martyn (2016-12-06)
    This article uses Pierre Bourdieu’s theory to analyze the relation between the Lebanese state and the reproduction of unequal power relations, in particular through the phenomenon of wasta (an Arabic word referring to the ...
  • Consociational Democracy and Urban Sustainability: Transforming the Confessional Divides in Beirut 
    Salamey, Imad; Tabar, Paul (2016-05-06)
    Is ‘consociational democracy’ a sustainable working model for deeply divided societies? Despite its relative success in Lebanon, rapid urbanization has presented serious challenges to the rigid confessional power-sharing ...
  • The Cultural and Affective Logic of the Dabki 
    Tabar, Paul (2016-03-31)
    The dabki is a folkloric dance enacted by Lebanese migrants in Australia. This paper examines this dance and shows that it is invested with many issues pertaining to the harsh realities of Lebanese migrants in Australia. ...
  • Democratic transition and sectarian populism: the case of Lebanon 
    Salamey, Imad; Tabar, Paul (2015-09-07)
    Despite being considered as one of the oldest constitutional democracies in the Middle East, Lebanon has been confronted with periodical institutional crises and civil violence. A protracted transitional period towards ...
  • “Habiibs” in Australia 
    Tabar, Paul (2016-03-31)
    Tackling the phenomenon of using Arabic words by second-generation Lebanese-Australians when conversing in English, and reading it culturally and sociologically, constitutes the primary aim of this article. In so doing, ...
  • 'If anyone called me a wog, they wouldn't be speaking to me alone' 
    Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg; Scott, Poynting (2016-03-31)
  • The image of power in maronite historical and political discourse 
    Tabar, Paul (2018-06-07)
  • Immigration and human development 
    Tabar, Paul (2018-07-27)
    This paper takes Lebanon as a case study to examine the relationship between human development and immigration. It examines this issue from both ends: the sending and the receiving countries. The author suggests that by ...
  • ‘Intersections’ of Masculinity and Ethnicity 
    Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul (2016-03-31)
    This article reports on an ethnographic study of teenage male secondary school students of Arabic‐speaking background in a working‐class suburb of Sydney. Interviews with friendship groups of migrant young men explored ...
  • The Lebanese diasporic field 
    Tabar, Paul (2018-06-06)
    What is a diaspora? Can it be distinguished from a ‘transnational community’? This paper discusses the Lebanese migrants abroad and their relationships with Lebanon by deploying the Bourdieusian concept of ‘field’. It ...
  • Lost between cultures or resisting racism? 
    Poynting, Scott; Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg (2016-03-31)
    There is widespread popular belief, both among Sydney's Lebanese-Australian communities and Anglo-Australians, that second-generation immigrant youth of Lebanese background are 'caught between two cultures'. This is often ...
  • Middle Eastern Appearances 
    Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul (2016-03-31)
    This article details a moral panic in 1998–2000 about “ethnic gangs” in Sydney's south-western suburbs and analyses its ideological construction of the links between ethnicity, youth and crime. It documents the racisms of ...
  • Migrant workers and class structure in Lebanon 
    Tabar, Paul; Longuenesse, Elisabeth (2018-07-27)
    Whilst a few scholars have examined the situation of domestic workers, the issue of migrant labor as a whole (its contribution to the labor market, the status and situation of different categories of workers, and their ...
  • Migration and Social Sciences in Lebanon 
    Tabar, Paul; Dorai, Kamel (2018-07-27)
    .This presentation discusses the writings on migration that have been produced in Lebanon by social scientists. What are they? Which discipline has produced more studies in the domain of social sciences? What is the dominant ...
  • ‘Political remittances’ 
    Tabar, Paul (2018-06-06)
    This paper examines a particular event that occurred in Australia within the Australian-Lebanese community: it is the political mobilisation of a substantial number of this community to participate in the general elections ...
  • Politics, culture and the lebanese diaspora 
    Tabar, Paul; Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer (Cambridge scholars, 2018-06-08)
  • The rise and falter of the field of ethnic politics in Australia 
    Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg; Poynting, Scott (2016-03-31)
    Since the advent of multiculturalism in Australia in the 1970s, ‘ethnicity’ has acquired not only cultural and social importance, but significant political consequences as groups mobilised around ‘ethnic communities’ and ...
  • Spiritual Authority versus Secular Authority 
    Baroudi, Sami E.; Tabar, Paul (2015-10-26)
  • Strong in Their Weakness or Weak in Their Strength? The Case of Lebanese Diaspora Engagement with Lebanon 
    Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer; Tabar, Paul (2016-04-19)
    This paper seeks to assess when and how the Lebanese Diaspora in Australia, Canada and the USA is most able to affect homeland affairs in Lebanon. Drawing on over 300 in-depth interviews and analysing literature on the ...