Conflict

The latest escalation in hostilities along Lebanon’s southern border is giving rise to emerging needs that can only be met through a universal and inclusive social protection system. The ongoing armed conflict is yet another crisis in a plethora of crises that people in Lebanon are left to withstand with minimal government support.

I am also cautious about privileging the family as a unit of analysis in the wake of war, given its ideological and material importance in the larger society as a location of heteronormative reproduction, extraction, and accumulation of resources. The family, argues Kathi Weeks, “is enforced through economic constraint and juridical rule as well as through the manufacture of consent” (Weeks 2021, 2). Western feminist political theorists have shown that the relationships of women to political communities are mediated by their relations with men.

 Au rythme des guerres : la mise sous dépendance progressive de l’économie gaziote (1967 -aujourd’hui)

The wars and the political sectarian conflict that Iraq witnessed between 1980 and 2006 strengthened the domination of political sectarianism over all aspects of socio-cultural and political life in major cities, such as Baghdad. At the same time, tribal customary laws including, marital laws, were reinforced in tribal areas (Hasan 2019; Haddad 2017, 2014; Khoury 2010; Mako 2019; Sa`id 2019).