Bassel Salloukh's guest appearances

Bassel Salloukh

POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast

Richardson Institute

Middle East Law and Governance

Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Wendy Pearlman

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Hiba Bou Akar

Janine Clark

Nathan Brown

Sean Yom

Reinoud Leenders

Toby Matthiesen

Salwa Ismail

May Darwich

Chris Phillips

Nader Hashemi

Lisel Hintz

Justin Gengler

OwlTail

SEPAD Pod Bassel Salloukh by Richardson Institute

SEPAD Pod Bassel Salloukh

On this week's POMEPS Conversation podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Bassel Salloukh, an associate professor of political science at the Social Sciences Department at Lebanese American University."Many countries are becoming like Lebanon where people start thinking of sectarian/tribal/ethnic divisions and identities as primordial. And then the only way to get out of the conflict is through the institutionalization of these identities into a new, power-sharing pact. But what that does is to freeze these identities and make it very difficult to move away from.""At the end of the day, the major problem is that people start looking at these identities as primordial. And they start behaving as if these identities have always been with us as part of these ancient hatreds. It becomes very difficult to come up with a counter-narrative."

On this week's POMEPS Conversation podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Bassel Salloukh, an associate professor of political science at the Social Sciences Department at Lebanese American University.<br><br>"Many countries are becoming like Lebanon where people start thinking of sectarian/tribal/ethnic divisions and identities as primordial. And then the only way to get out of the conflict is through the institutionalization of these identities into a new, power-sharing pact. But what that does is to freeze these identities and make it very difficult to move away from."<br><br>"At the end of the day, the major problem is that people start looking at these identities as primordial. And they start behaving as if these identities have always been with us as part of these ancient hatreds. It becomes very difficult to come up with a counter-narrative."

New Forms of Sectarianism: A Conversation with Bassel Salloukh (S. 5, Ep. 8)