Brown Bag Presentation: The Territories of COVID-19 Response in Lebanon
Mona Harb spoke yesterday about "The Territories of COVID-19 Response in Lebanon," one of the Lab's ongoing research project in the brown bag series “Tackling the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19: Multidisciplinary Research Studies and Opportunities.”
These brown bags are organized by AUB to provide an
informal platform for faculty members across a wide variety of disciplines to
exchange ideas, initiate collaborations, and trigger joint projects in response
to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. On
May 21st, 2020’s brown bag talk, Mona Harb spoke alongside Maria
Gabriella Trovato (Landscape Design, FAFS), Hana El-Ghali (Education and
Youth Policy, IFI), and Lamis Jomaa (Nutrition and Food Sciences, FAFS) who
also shared their current work on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. Mona
Harb presented the preliminary findings of “The Territories of the COVID-19 Response in Lebanon”, a research project on which Ahmad Gharbieh, Mona Fawaz, Luna
Dayekh, Nour Zoghbi Fares, Shareef Tarhini and Ismail Hutet are working. This
research project aims to document and analyze how political actors are using
the crisis as an opportunity to reposition themselves across the territories of
Lebanon, and how are other actors are responding to the pandemic and reconfiguring
political geographies. She highlighted three types of territorialities: the
territories of sectarian politics, the territories of solidarity, and
left-behind territories. Mona Harb went on to say that the team is now in
the process of visualizing this data and further analyzing it.