Select Publications
Books
2020, Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498522748
,2020, Lebanese Women at the Crossroads, Lexington Books, http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9781498522755
,2012, Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/pilgrimage-in-the-age-of-globalisation-15
,2011, My Mother's Table: At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, https://www.cambridgescholars.com/my-mothers-table-15
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Women home-based entrepreneurs in Iran: navigating a turbulent era', in Women’s Entrepreneurship in a Turbulent Era, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 105 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781803920825.00017
,2020, 'Women's Empowerment through Higher Education: The Case of Bangladesh', in Fontanini C; Joshi KM; Paivandi S (ed.), International Perspectives on Gender and Higher Education Student Access and Success, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 213 - 231, https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/International-Perspectives-on-Gender-and-Higher-Education/?k=9781839098871
,2020, 'New Media/New Feminism/s: The Lebanese Women Movement Online and Offline', in Stephan R; Charrad M (ed.), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring, New York University Press, New York, https://nyupress.org/9781479846641/women-rising/
,2019, 'Culture as Opportunity: Skilled Migration and Entrepreneurship in Australia', in Ratten V; Jones P; Braga V; Marques CS (ed.), Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The role of collaboration in the global economy. Contributions to Management Science., Springer, Cham, New York, USA, pp. 25 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12342-0_3
,2017, 'Masculinisation or feminisation? Lebanese emigration and the dynamics of arranged cousin marriages in Australia', in The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South, pp. 71 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58799-2_5
,2017, 'Masculinisation or Feminisation? Lebanese Emigration and the Dynamics of Arranged Cousin Marriages in Australia', in Tittensor D; Mansouri F (ed.), The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South, Springer/ Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 71 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58799-2
,2014, 'At Home With Skype: New Media Technologies and Social Change Between Lebanon and the Diaspora.', in Batrouney T; Boos T; Escher A; Tabar P (ed.), Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Communities in the World: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, pp. 87 - 101, https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7501-0/Batrouney_ea_Eds_Palestinian_Lebanese_PDF/
,2012, 'Introduction: Pilgrimage and the Search for Meaning in Late Modernity', in Hyndman-Rizk NN (ed.), Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Necastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. xxiii - xxiii, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/pilgrimage-in-the-age-of-globalisation-15
,2012, 'Return to Hadchit: The Virtual, Spirtual and Temporal Dimensions of Pilgrimage to a Lebanese Mountain Village', in Hyndman-Rizk NN (ed.), Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Necastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. 170 - 203, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/pilgrimage-in-the-age-of-globalisation-15
,2012, 'The Ascetics of the Home: Women and the Spiritual (Re)production of Maronite Lebanese Identity in Australia', in Walks M; McPherson N (ed.), An Anthropology of Mothering, Demeter Press, Bradford, Ontario
,2010, '“Beyond El Ghurba: Caught between homeliness and homelessness in the Lebanese Diaspora”.', in Migration and the Arab World, Volume 3, The Mashreq, Middle East Institute View Points, pp. 64 - 67, http://www.mei.edu/Portals/0/Publications/Migration%20Mashreq.pdf
,2010, 'On Being Honkey-Lebanese: The Inter-racial and Inter-cultural Experience of 3rd and 4th Generation Lebanese Americans', in Tabar P; Nahas N (ed.), Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK
,Journal articles
2022, 'David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 23, pp. 135 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1999037
,2019, 'A Question of Personal Status: The Lebanese Women's Movement and Civil Marriage Reform', Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 15, pp. 179 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490967
,2018, 'Dionigi Albera and John Eade (eds.), New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies: Global Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.xxii+216 pp.', Numen, 65, pp. 606 - 610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341518
,2018, 'The higher education paradox: towards improving women’s empowerment, agency development and labour force participation in Bangladesh', Gender and Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1471452
,2016, 'No Arranged Marriages Here: Migration and the Shift from Relations of Descent to Consent in the Lebanese Diaspora', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37, pp. 303 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163533
,2014, 'Immigrant Business: Choice or Necessity? Introduction', Labour and management in development, 15, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13884/20140907-0001/www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/lmd/article/view/3330.html
,2014, 'Migration, Wasta and Big Business Success: The Paradox of Capital Accumulation in Sydney's Hadchiti Lebanese Community', Labour and management in development, 15, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13884/20140907-0001/www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/lmd/article/view/3329.html
,2013, 'Paul Tabar, Greg Noble, and Scott Poynting, On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism, and the Ethnic Field. (Beirut: Institute for Migration Studies/Lebanese American University Press, 2010).', Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.24847/11i2013.9
,2013, 'Review: Paul Tabar, Greg Noble, and Scott Poynting, On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism, and the Ethnic Field. (Beirut: Institute for Migration Studies/Lebanese American University Press, 2010).', Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, 1, pp. 121 - 123, http://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/9/10
,2012, 'Book Review: Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880-1947', International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 8, pp. 530 - 532
,2010, '“Health Issues in Arabic Speaking and New and Emerging Communities”', Mosaic, New and emerging communities - achieving belonging and participation, pp. 25 - 28
,2010, 'On the Search for Lebanese Roots', 10th Anniversary Journal, 10th Anniversary Edition, pp. 56 - 66
,2009, '“Balad Niswen-Hukum Niswen: The Perception of Gender Inversions between Lebanon and Australia', Palma, 11, pp. 73 - 105
,2008, ''Shrinking worlds': Cronulla, anti-Lebanese racism and return visits in the Sydney Hadchiti Lebanese community', Anthropological Forum, 18, pp. 37 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664670701858968
,Conference Papers
2018, 'Remembering the Lebanese Civil War in the Diaspora: Conflict Resolution or Continuation?', Brisbane, presented at IPSA World Congress, Brisbane, 21 July 2018 - 25 July 2018
,2010, 'Mothering and Embodied Perceptions of Health, Illness and Pain amongst Women in New and Emerging Communities in Australia.', in Mothering and Embodied Perceptions of Health, Illness and Pain amongst Women in New and Emerging Communities in Australia”., Natiional Convention Centre, Melbourne, presented at Diversity in Health Conference, Natiional Convention Centre, Melbourne, 07 June 2010 - 09 June 2010, https://www.academia.edu/15336788/Mothering_and_Embodied_Perceptions_of_Health_Illness_and_Pain_amongst_Women_in_New_and_Emerging_Communities_in_Australia
,Conference Presentations
2016, 'Lebanese Emigration to Australia: Challenges and Opportunities for Business Development', presented at Lebanese Diaspora Energy, Hilton Habtoor, Beirut, 05 May 2016 - 07 May 2016, http://www.lde-leb.com/
,2016, 'Women's Rights Here and There: Comparing Discourses and Legal Frameworks Between Lebanon and Australia', presented at Arab Diasporas: Migration, Citizenship, and Transnational Identities, University of Sydney, 21 March 2016 - 22 March 2016, http://sydney.edu.au/arts/arabic/about/events/?id=8357
,2014, 'New Media/New Feminisms: The Lebanese Women's Movement Goes Online', presented at Middle East Studies Association of America, Washington D.C, 22 November 2014 - 25 June 2016, http://mesana.org/
,2014, 'Lebanese Emigration: Masculinisation or Feminisation?', presented at Migration Symposium, Deakin University, 11 November 2014 - 12 November 2014
,2014, 'New Media/New Feminism/s: The Lebanese Women's Movement Goes Online', presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Finland July 2-7., 02 July 2014 - 07 July 2014, http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/?page_id=16
,2014, 'Civil Marriage, Not Civil War: The Lebanese Women’s Movement and the Search for Secular Citizenship', presented at Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies, Turku, 05 June 2014 - 07 June 2014, https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/activities/third-finnish-collo%28851e72de-e9a4-4118-a993-7bf281185b7b%29.html
,2013, 'Forbidden Love in a Confessional State: Fatwas, Castration and the Search for Civil Marriage in Lebanon', presented at Australian Anthropological Society, Annual Conference, ANU (November 6-8)., Australian National University, 06 November 2013 - 08 November 2013
,2013, 'Civil Marriage, Not Civil War: The Lebanese Women’s Movement and the Search for Secular Citizenship', presented at Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Theory and Practice through the Prism of Women’s Rights., Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bahçeşehir University , Istanbul, Turkey, 18 March 2013 - 19 March 2013
,2013, 'Lebanese Migration, Wasta and Big Business Success', presented at Immigrant Business Symposium,, University of Sydney Business School, -
,2012, '“Transnational Feminist Movements, Social Media and the Arab Spring: The Case of Lebanon and the Diaspora”.', presented at Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, 02 July 2012 - 06 July 2012, http://www.crossroads2012.org/sites/www.crossroads2012.org/files/pictures/Crossroads%202012%20-%20Daily%20Program.pdf
,2012, 'Women’s Activism in the Arab Spring: The Lebanese Women’s Movement Goes Online', presented at Arab Spring Symposium: A Symposium on Social Media and the Politics of Reportage, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 08 June 2012 - 08 June 2012
,2012, 'Feminist Discourses, Patriarchy and Social Change amongst Lebanese Australian Households.', presented at The Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Region, he American University of Sharjah, The United Arab Emirates, 07 March 2012 - 09 March 2012, https://www2.aus.edu/conferences/cfp/papers.php
,2011, 'No Arranged Marriages Here!: Lebanese Women, Spirituality and Transforming Gender-Roles in Australia', presented at Joint conference of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, UWA. July 5-8, 2011, 05 July 2011 - 08 July 2011
,2011, 'At Home with Skype: Collapsing Social distance in the Virtual and Physical Space between Lebanese Transnational Communities and Lebanon', presented at Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian communities in the world: Theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, University of Mainz, Germany, 18 May 2011 - 21 May 2011, http://www.geo.uni-mainz.de/arabcommunities/Bilder/Program%20and%20Abstracts.pdf
,Reports
2018, Best Practice in Communicating with Women From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds, Canberra Multicultural Women's Forum CMWF, Canberra, ACT, https://cmcf.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FINAL-REPORT-SEPTEMBER-2018-CMWF.pdf
,2018, Workshop Report: “Access for the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community to the ACT Magistrates Court for Protection from Family Violence”
,2010, The Safe and Wise Use of Medicines in New and Emerging Communities in Australia, Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia, Canberra
,Theses / Dissertations
2010, At My Mother's Table: Migration, (Re)production and Return Between Hadchit, North Lebanon and Sydney, Australian National University, http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49372
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