Publications
From Confluences Méditerranée to national studies for Lebanon’s Ministry of Finance.
Dr. Nizar Hariri
Author & co-author · Associate Professor, USJ · Director, OURSE
2024
Report
Nizar Hariri, Michele Scala, Jacqueline Saad Harfouche, Raymond Bou Nader, Myriam Catusse
USJ-OURSE, IFPO, ANR PRECAR, IREMAM — HAL hal-05696003
The first comprehensive national multi-dimensional study of precariousness, surveying 1,200 households after the 2019 crisis across seven dimensions: employment, housing, social protection, mobility, energy access, subsistence strategies and solidarity networks.
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2020 / 2021
Policy study
Nizar Hariri & Mahassen Ajam
Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan, with AFD & the French Embassy, Beirut
Subtitled “des statistiques culturelles au service du développement économique”, this national study builds cultural statistics for Lebanon and shows the cultural and creative industries account for about 5% of GDP.
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2024
Journal article
Nizar Hariri
Confluences Méditerranée, 2024/3 (No. 130)
Reads urban water scarcity through the twin lenses of relative deprivation and absolute dispossession, tracing how access to a basic public good fractures along social lines.
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2015
Policy study
Nizar Hariri & Grâce Kassis
European Union — Med Culture Programme (published June 2016)
A regional study commissioned by the EU on youth employability and policy frameworks in the creative sectors of four Southern Mediterranean countries.
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2021
Journal article
Nizar Hariri & Dima Tannir
Ethnologie française, 2021/2 (Vol. 51)
An ethnographic and socio-economic reading of marriage arrangements within Beirut’s Sunni community, published in France’s leading ethnology journal.
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2019
Journal article
Interview conducted by Nizar Hariri et al.
Confluences Méditerranée, 2019/4 (No. 111)
How Lebanon’s trade unions and labor organizations responded to — and were tested by — the October 17 uprising.
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2017
Journal article
Rayan Haykal & Nizar Hariri
European Scientific Journal (ESJ)
Tests whether institutional and interpersonal trust and civic norms help explain where and why the Arab uprisings took hold.
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2018
Edited work
Organized by Nizar Hariri, Michele Scala, with CDRE, IFPO, OIB, USJ
Scientific event & collective work
“At the margins of wage labor? Working and contesting in Lebanon” — a collective exploration of work outside the formal wage relation and the forms of protest it produces.
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2017
Journal article
Nizar Hariri & Grace Kassis
European Scientific Journal (ESJ), August 2017 special edition
Examines the gap between the skills supplied by universities and training centres and the needs of creative-sector employers, and what active labour market policies can do about it.
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Undated
Report
Nizar Hariri & Michele Scala
Erasmus+ CONECTE project, coordinated by USJ
A multidimensional analysis of work on the eve of the 2019 crisis: post-war economic policy, labor regimes, public employment, foreign labor and the racialization of work.
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