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- Title
'We Are the Citizens of a Nation Called Lebanon': An Ethnographic Case on Sectarianism in Lebanon and the Limits It Imposes on Its Youth.
- Authors
Haidar, Riwa
- Abstract
This article looks at how the confessional system of government in Lebanon creates limits in younger citizens' professional opportunities. These limitations are not directly implemented by the government system, per se, as this article will show. Instead, it is through it that the sectarian identification amongst the older generations became what it is today, and how, in the case of Lebanon specifically, it indirectly led to the following of strict quotas that, instead of offering equal opportunities, created sectarian obstacles that could not be overcome. This article focuses on the youth of Lebanon, notably university students, portraying how in parallel to the limitations faced and frustrations expressed by the students, a new nationalistic identification is rising amongst them as they come to realisation with the issues of confessionalism as a political system.
- Subjects
LEBANON; SECTARIANISM; ETHNOLOGY; POLITICAL systems; CITIZENS; COLLEGE students; YOUTH movements
- Publication
Anthropology of the Middle East, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 2, p6
- ISSN
1746-0719
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ame.2022.170202