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Contexts -- Prologue: Ahmed's story -- 'New kinship', new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East -- Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon: the example of adoption -- Conversations -- Test-tube fiqh: islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive tec…
"Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the e…
Nabih Berri's early chapters -- From a marginal militia leader to a key man -- A fight for survival : leading Amal and the Shiites in the jungle of the civil war -- Serving as speaker : reaching national status, losing Shiite hegemony -- Berri's political stands
"Tracing the rise of Islamism in Lebanon and its attempt to Islamize society and state by the reverse integration of society and state into the project of Islamism, this book looks at Lebanon against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction…
Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
Det er sommeren 1982 og Beirut er under belejring. 18-årige Ivans forældre er lige blevet evakueret fra byen med andre medlemmer af Den Palæstinensiske Befrielsesorganisation. Ivan bliver i byen og bliver venner med Eli, en norsk fysioterapeut. Men begivenhederne tager en ubehag…
