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Jinan Al-Habbal
Occupation
Researcher
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ABOUT
Jinan is the Principal Investigator of the research project entitled "Consociationalism and Civil Resistance in Lebanon" in the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on protest movements and civil resistance as well as the impact of consociationalism on democratization in postwar Lebanon and Iraq. Jinan is also a Fellow in the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews and has years of experience in political consulting and risk analysis, after serving as an analyst for several organizations. She is the co-author of The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon (London: Pluto Press, 2015).
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Democratization
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Iraq
All Middle East
The Levant
Specialties
Sectarianism In The Middle East
Consociational Democracies
Social Movements And Civil Resistance
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Spanish (elementary)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2018 | International Relations | University of St Andrews
MA | 2011 | International Affairs | Lebanese American University
BA | 2009 | Political Studies | American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Consociationalism and Civil Resistance in Lebanon Protesting through a Pandemic: Youth Activism in Lebanon Protesting Sectarianism: Lebanon’s Thawrat Tishreen