Bernard Rougier is a specialist in Middle Eastern Studies. He has been Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clermont-Ferrand University, Sciences Po, Paris and Saint Joseph University, Beirut. He is the author of Everyday Jihad: the Rise of Radical Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon (Harvard University Press, 2007) and L’Oumma en fragments (Presses Universitaires de France, 2011). He is currently Director of the Cairo-based Centre d’Études et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales. 

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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