Aïda Kanafani-Zahar is an anthropologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France, Paris. Her research on contemporary Lebanon includes inter-religious dialogue, institutional secularisation, memories of the civil war, and reconciliation processes.

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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