May 15, 2018
Orient-Institut Beirut, « Research Project: History Writing at Lebanon's Universities // Dynamics of connectivity under the impact of reform, innovation and political change », Mish ma32ool, ID : 10670/1.hx84xf
© Jonathan Kriener By Jonathan Kriener In the winter term of 2010/11, postgraduate students of sociology at the Lebanese University (UL) protested against its newly established Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences. The campaigners claimed that the reform was designed to functionalise graduate studies merely to serve the globalising labour market. Maybe it is not by coincidence that the campaign started with a boycott of the entrance exams to the Doctoral School. In the exams, fo...