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Outsmarting sanctions

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 34-44, February 2026.
Abstract In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through ghachagh (fugitive) configurations
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating the Negative Transfer in Multi‐Task Learning for Harmful Language Detection in Spanish and Arabic

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Negative transfer continues to limit the benefits of multi‐task learning (MTL) in harmful language detection, where related tasks must share representations without diluting task‐specific nuances. We introduce task awareness (TA), a methodological framework that explicitly conditions MTL models on the task they must solve.
Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hamas and Hezbollah: Reflections of resistance, challenges for democracy

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2011
In the Arab-Israeli conflict, the creation and maintaining of resistance groups, as well as their recurring confrontations with Israel, take place with greater intensity in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.
Stuart Reigeluth
doaj  

The Middle East Shiite Arc: A Real Threat or Geopolitical Chimera?

open access: yesВестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2020
The term Shiite Crescent, or Shiite Arc, is becoming increasingly popular in political and academic discourse as well as in the media. It is used to indicate a threat allegedly posed by an alliance of states and forces dependent on Iran.
A. V. Sarabiev
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Km2 vs km of sovereignty in the Lebanese public space: The Shi’ite community, Hezbollah and forms of dissidence within the community territory

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2010
An analysis of the Lebanese public space must be linked to the very configuration of its political system, either in terms of geographical space or in political or social terms.
Massimo Di Ricco
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Impact Analysis of the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict on the Security of Lebanese Civil Society: A Case Study of the 2024 Beeper Explosion in South Lebanon

open access: yesJurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik
Israel and Hezbollah have been in conflict since 1982, followed by another conflict in 2006. In 2024, there was a pager explosion in Lebanon, with Israel reportedly behind it, placing explosives in pagers and walkie talkie communication devices used by ...
Aullya Ananda Putri, Yanuar Rahmadan
doaj   +1 more source

Aggressor or Victim? How the Antagonists of the Lebanon War 2006 are constructed in the German Newspapers [PDF]

open access: yesConflict & Communication Online, 2010
The present study analyzed the patterns of the German newspaper coverage about the antagonists of the Lebanon war 2006. The following research questions were addressed: Firstly, which actor of the Lebanon war 2006 is mainly portrayed as the aggressor and
Franziska Oehmer
doaj  

Um novo olhar sobre Hezbollah: o terrorismo frente ao reformismo socioeconômico do partido e à teoria da sociedade de resistência

open access: yesMalala, 2013
Os principais elementos de fortalecimento e popularidade do Hezbollah entre a população libanesa são a participação, pós Guerra-Civil, na política parlamentar (como representante dos xiitas - outrora excluídos) fornecendo serviços socioeconômicos e ...
Natalia Nahas Carneiro Maia
doaj   +1 more source

El atentado a la Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina y la “pista siria”: construcción de un imaginario del terrorismo (1994-2007)

open access: yesQuestion, 2017
El presente trabajo se propone examinar la visión existente sobre el atentado a la Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina del año 1994 que involucra a la República Árabe de Siria, analizando las investigaciones periodísticas que se han publicado hasta el ...
Daniel Blinder
doaj  

Regimes of fear in Lebanon: perspectives from the borderlands

open access: yesDe Europa
What are the current dominant threats and fears in Lebanon? How do the borderland communities perceive these threats, and how are they impacting their identity construction?
Daniel Meier
doaj   +1 more source

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