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Articles and Books - Middle East
   
Assorted texts written by AUB faculty and other researchers from the region:

Articles, Papers, and Presentations

"Germany's Contribution to Lebanese Sovereignty: The Maritime Task Force, Coastal Radar System and Border Pilot Project." Timur Goksel, Hans Bastian Hauck, Karim Makdisi and Stuart Reigeluth. DGAP - German Council on Foreign Relations, January 2008, No. 1.

"The Beirut Dozen: Traditional domestic garden as spatial and cultural mediator." Jala Makhzoumi, American University of Beirut, and Reem Zako, University College London, UK. Proceedings from the 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, Instanbul 2007.

Youth, Employment, and Conflict in MENA. A Power Point presentation by Tarik M. Yousef, Georgetown University/Dubai School of Government, for the World Bank. 

"Middle East's Economic Paradox: Lost in the Wash"  - Brookings Institution, July 2008
Navtej Dhillon, Director, Middle East Youth Initiative
Jad Chaaban, Assistant Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut
Tarik Yousef, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Wolfensohn Center for Development, Middle East Youth Initiative

Assessing the Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements: A Disaggregated Approach
Jad Chaaban, Assistant Professor of Economics, AUB. Brown Bag presentation.

"The Costs of Youth Exclusion in the Middle East"
Middle East  Youth Initiative Working Paper No. 7
Jad Chaaban, Assistant Professor of Economics, AUB.

Books

Hanafi, Sari (Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Sociology of the Palestinian Return. Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies. http://caus.org.lb/ (Arabic)

Hanafi, Sari (Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Palestinian Dilemmas. Cairo Papers in Social Science, American University in Cairo. (September 2008)

Fawaz, Mona. “The State and the Production of Illegal Housing: Public Practices in Hayy el Sellom, Beirut-Lebanon.” In: M. Rieker and K. Ali eds. Oxford University Press. In Press.