Protests are mainly organized by citizens? associations demanding public intervention in order to stimulate development and to guarantee the population?s well-being in peripheral areas. As a result of a similar historicity of protest that characterizes both locations, the demands towards the...

Lebanese society is characterized by remarkable capacities for political mobilization; it displays nevertheless a particular scarcity in social protest. Since the end of the civil war (1990), movements have been organized against the anti-social consequences of the reconstruction policies but...