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Full Name: Guita G. Hourani
Postion:
  • Former Chairwoman of the Maronite Research Institute (MARI), Lebanon and Editor in Chief of
  • Director and Researcher, The Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University (NDU), Louaize, Lebanon
Nationality: Lebanon
Work Tel: 961 9 218955 ext: 2328
Work Fax: 961 9 224517
Geographical Coverage
Lebanon
Areas of Specialization
International Migration
Immigrants Insertion
Citizenship and the State
Ethnic Groups/Minorities
Area of Expertise
Research Studies/Research Methodology
Publications
  • Impact of naturalization on socio-economic mobility among the Kurds in Lebanon, Laboraoire Migrinter, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France, [2011]- Forthcoming Ph.D. Thesis   
  • The Impact of the Summer 2006 war on migration in Lebanon : emigration, re-migration, evacuation, and returning, [2010]- Book   
  • Diaspora migration and homeland relations, presented at the conference on " Migration and Refugee Movements in the Middle East and North-Eastern Africa ", organized by The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program (FMRS), American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, 23-25 October 2007 - see link   
  • Managing migration, saving brain drain : the case of Lebanon,presented at the Conference on " Migration as an Obstacle to Social and Economic Development and ''Brain Drain'' ", The Directorate of Migrants, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon, 28 June 2007   
  • Forced migration and masculinity : the impact of the summer War 2006 on Lebanese male identity, with Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, presented at the Conference on " Migration, Islam and Masculinities : Transforming Emigration and Immigration Societies ", Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, 11 April 2007   
  • Diaspora and E-commerce : the globalization of Lebanese Baklava, presented at the Eighth Mediterranean Research Meeting, Workshop 06 " Between Society and the Market : Novel Approaches to the Business History of the Middle East ", Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-25 March 2007   
  • Absentee voting in a global perspective : working towards an absentee voting law for Lebanon, with Sensenig-Dabbous, K. Fakih and G. Labaki, Report presented to the National Electoral Commission University Editorial Board, Lebanon, 2005   
  • Transnational lebanese communities network : using traditional, alternative and ICT-based methodologies to study Middle Eastern migration networks, with Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, presented at The Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, The European University Institute, Montecatini Terme, Florence, Italy, March 2005   
  • The Maronite eremitical tradition : a contemporary revival, with Antoine B Habchi, In: Heythrop Journal, 45:451-465, 2004   
  • Rationale behind the “Whiteness” of the Syrian-Lebanese in South Africa and the United States of America in two court cases, presented at The Eleventh International Congress of the Asociaci?n Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y ?frica on Integracion y Diversidad : Asia Y Africa En Transformation (Integration and Diversity: Asia and Africa in Transformation), Mexico City, Mexico, 12-15 November 2003   
  • St. Peter''s Center : The Maronite-Cypriot House in Lebanon, In: The Journal of Maronite Studies, July 1998, The Maronite Research Institute (MARI) - see link   
  • A Reading in the history of the Maronites of Cyprus from the eighth century to the beginning of British rule, In: The Journal of Maronite Studies, July 1998, The Maronite Research Institute (MARI) - see link   

 

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