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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Paul Tabar

Date of Birth: 28 November, 1953

Home Address: 81 Maiden Street

GREENACRE

NSW 2190

Postal Address: Lebanese American University

Department of Social Sciences

P.O. Box: 13-5053, Beirut.

Phone: (02) 97030522 (Aust)

70177435 (mobile, Lebanon)

00119613 791314 ext 3248 (residence, Lebanon)

E-mail: ptabar@lau.edu.lb

Citizenship: Australian and Lebanese

Qualifications: BA (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

BA honours (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

PhD program (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

Present Position: Professor of Sociology,

Chair of the Department of Humanities,

Director of the Institute for Migration Studies,

Associate Chair of the Department of Social Sciences,

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School of Arts and Sciences

Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

CAREER RESUME

2014-present Chair of the Department of Humanities, Lebanese

American University, Beirut.

2013-2014 Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Lebanese

American University, Beirut.

2013-present Adjunct Research Fellow in the Institute for Society and

Culture, UWS.

2007-present Director of the Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese

American University (LAU), Beirut, Lebanon

2006-2013 Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology

2005-2008 Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the

Lebanese American University

2004- 2005 Associate Professor, Social Sciences and Education

Division at LAU, Beirut Campus

2003-2004 Associate Professor, School of Humanities/Department

of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Notre Dame

University,

Associate Researcher at University of Western Sydney,

Centre for Cultural Research

2001-2003 Assistant Professor, School of Humanities/Department of

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Notre Dame

University,

Associate Researcher at University of Western Sydney,

Centre for Cultural Research

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1996-2000 Full-time Senior lecturer (B) in Sociology (four years

contract), University of Western Sydney (UWS), Sydney.

1996 Full-time Principal Researcher, University of

Technology, Sydney.

Part-time Senior Lecturer, Sydney University,

Department of Anthropology.

1996 Part-time lecturer B, Sydney University (US),

Department of Anthropology

1993-1995 Assistant Professor and a Chairperson of Social

Sciences Division,

Lebanese American University (LAU), and Assistant

Professor in Sociology/Political Sociology.

1992 Full-time coordinator and lecturer A in Sociology, UWS,

Nepean.

Coordinator and lecturer A in Anthropology, UWS,

Macarthur.

1991 Full-time tutor and occasional lecturer in Sociology,

School of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences,

UWS, Macarthur.

1990 Full-time tutor and occasional lecturer in Sociology,

School of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences,

UWS, Nepean.

1989 Assistant researcher, University of Technology, Sydney

(UTS).

1984-1989 Social and Community worker, Marrickville Legal

Centre, Sydney.

Part-time interpreter, Community Relations Commission

(previously Ethnic Affairs Commission).

1983 Assistant researcher, School of Education, Macquarie

University (MU).

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1980-1982 Part-time tutor in Anthropology and Sociology, School of

Behavioural Sciences, MU.

1979-1980 Teacher of Arabic, TAFE and Nazareth Girls High

School,

Bankstown.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSABILITIES

Leadership

Between 2011-2013, I designed an MA program in Migration Studies.

The program is interdisciplinary and Social Science Department

started offering it in Fall 2014.

In 2005-2006, I proposed a plan for the establishment of an Institute

for Migration Studies (IMS) at LAU. The Institute is now founded and

the School of Arts and Sciences appointed me as its director.

During the academic year (2006-2007), a member of the faculty and I

put forward a proposal for the establishment of a Survey Research

Unit. LAU administration approved the proposal and is now

considering turning it into a Survey Unit which would serve the

research needs of LAU and the community at large.

During the same year, I also initiated the process to revamp the BA

Program in Psychology.

In 2005-2006, I proposed a new Minor in Sociology and a totally new

BA Program in Social Work and Community Development at LAU.

The Minor is now offered and the new program in Social Work and

Community Development is expected to be launched in September

2014.

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In 2007-2010, I was a member of a committee which revised the

Political Science and International Affairs BA Program at LAU. The

new Program is now being implemented.

During the past three years at LAU, I taught and designed new

courses. These are: Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender,

Sociology of Religion, Sociological Theories, Migration,

Transnationalism and the State and the Politics of Migration.

In year 2002, while working at Notre Dame University (NDU) I

proposed and founded a research centre on migration. The unit is now

operating at NDU and it is called The Lebanese Emigration Research

Centre (LERC).

In 2002-2003, I took a leading role in assessing the courses offered at

NDU for a Sociology Major. I initiated the project to update the major

and make its courses more in touch with contemporary social theories

and prevalent social problems in Lebanon, the Middle and the world.

Faculty committee work

Since I started work with LAU, I joined the following committees and/or

performed the following tasks:

Chair of Humanities from 2016 onward

Chair of the Department of Social Sciences from 2013 until 2016

As a Chair, I am in charge of developing and implementing a

Strategic Plan for the whole Department for the following 3 academic

years (from 2013-2016).

Since the launching of the Minor in Sociology, I have been the

coordinator of all sociology courses offered by the Department of

Social Sciences.

Since 2012, I was a member of the Departmental sub-committee

charged with the task of revising the Social Work program.

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Since 2012, I am a member of the Program Assessment Committee at

LAU

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Between 2006 and 2009, I was the Chair for the Department of Social

Sciences and an active member of the School of Arts and Sciences

Council.

During 2005-2006, I was an active member of the Graduate Degree

Programs Committee working on producing an LAU Institutional

Self-Study to obtain candidacy from The New England Association of

Schools and Colleges (NEASC). The Self-Study is now completed

and LAU is now accredited by NEASC.

During 2004-2005, I was an active member of the Development

Strategic Planning Subcommittee involved in the making of the

overall strategic planning for LAU.

Since 2005, I am a member of the Graduate Studies Council at LAU

and a member of the Academic School Council representing the

Social Sciences and Education Division.

When at NDU, I was a member of the Department Curricula

Committee, 2001-2002, Department of Social and Behavioural

Sciences.

I was a member of the Academic Committee at NDU, advising the

Dean of Humanities in matters of screening research proposals

submitted to conferences or funded research, 2001-2002.

While employed (1997-1999) by the University of Western Sydney

(UWS), Macarthur, I was a member of a) the Faculty of Arts and

Social Sciences Assessment Committee, b) the Faculty Information

Technology Strategic Plan Working Party, and c) the coordinator of

first year sociology course.

As early as 1994, I headed a committee responsible for assessing and

restructuring all the courses offered at the Social Sciences Division at

LAU, Beirut, Lebanon (MA in International Affairs, Psychology and

Social Work Majors).

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Services to the Relevant Profession and/or Academic Discipline and/or

Relevant Contribution to the Wider Community

Development of relationship between the University and the wider

community

Peer reviewer for the following academic journals: Youth Studies

Australia, Anthropological Forum, National Identities, Journal of

Australian Studies, International Migration and Journal for

Intercultural Studies

Throughout the nineties and until now, I was interviewed on several

occasions by Australian and Lebanese media in Sydney(radio, TV

and newspapers) to comment on social, political and multicultural

issues (e.g. ‘Lebanese ethnic gangs’, racism and the Arabic-speaking

communities, the threat of terrorism, etc.)

Between May 24 and 26, 2007, I was the convenor of an international

conference on Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora which was

held at LAU on Beirut Campus. The conference hosted three keynote

speakers, Vincent Crapanzano (City University of New York),

Ghassan Hage (Sydney University) and Akram Khater (North

Carolina State University, USA).

Between the 2nd

and 4th of February, 2012, I took a leading role in

organizing an international conference at LAU on “Relationships

between Diasporas and their ‘Homelands’ and their impact on the

State, national identities and Peace and Conflict”. The conference

was attended by many scholars from Australia, USA and Europe. The

keynote speakers were from Oxford University (Dr. Alan Gamlen,

Dr. Nicholas Van Heir and Dr. hein de Hass).

In 2008, the Association of Arab Sociologists in collaboration with

the Centre for Arab Unity Studies took a decision to publish an

internationally refereed journal called: Idafat: the Arab Journal of

Sociology. I am appointed as a member of its editorial committee.

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In 2005, I organised a launch in Sydney for two books: ‘Lebanese

Diaspora’, published by LAU and ‘The Lebanese in Australia’,

published in Arabic by Mukhtaraat. I also conducted a Radio

interview on these two books on SBS Arabic Program. The interview

is accessible on line (www.sbs.com.au), Arabic Program. Interviews

were also conducted with the El-Telegraph, the largest circulating

Arabic newspaper in Australia. A copy of the interview is available

on request.

In 2005, I was a member of an LAU delegation to establish relations

with various Australian Universities and High Schools, and to build

contacts with the Lebanese migrant community for the sake of

marketing the educational services of LAU. Initial contacts were also

made to establish a Chapter for LAU Alumni in Sydney. During this

visit, I also conducted a Radio interview on SBS Radio on the

political situation in Lebanon. This interview is available on line (see

above).

In 2002, I organised a conference at NDU entitled “Identity, City and

Space: the Dynamics between Urbanity, Migration and the Rural

Areas”. The conference was very successful and I edited a book in

Arabic based on its proceedings.

In June-July, 2001, I organised at LAU a conference on Lebanese

Diaspora. The conference was very successful. It was attended by

scholars, academics and researchers from many countries around the

world including Australia, USA, Canada, France, etc., Dr. Michael

Humphrey and Professor Jock Collins were key note speakers at the

conference.

Between 1996 and 1999, I was an Editorial Chief Consultant on

social policy and ethnic affairs for El-Telegraph, the major Arabic

newspaper published in Sydney and other major cities in Australia.

Provision of expert advise to the media

I have provided expert advice to the media on ethnic politics,

multiculturalism, youth ‘gangs’, and ‘ethnic crime’. I have been interviewed

by, quoted/broadcast, or published in:

The Australian

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The Sydney Morning Herald The Sun-Herald The Daily Telegraph El Telegraph The Express (Bankstown) ABC Radio 702 (Sally Loane 17/11/99) ABC Radio Triple J Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Radio SBS Television Insight (briefing) Middle East Radio 2ME, Arabic Radio In Lebanon, I was interviewed on many occasions by local and international TV Stations to voice my opinion on political and social issues. These stations are: Lebanese TV Broadcasting Future TV ART Al-Jazira LBC Examiner of higher degree theses

LAU (2004-present) a) Currently supervising three MA theses b) Supervised 18 MA theses c) I acted as a reader for 20 MA theses since 2004. d) University of Western Sydney (UWS) asked me in Fall 2004 to mark

a BA honours thesis in Cultural Studies. Task completed on time. e) In 2009 UWS asked me to examine and grade a Master of Arts thesis

on Muslim Youth and the Mufti: youth discourses on Identity and Religious leadership under Media Scrutiny.

f) November 2009, I examined a PhD thesis in Anthropology by Nelia Hyndman-Rizik, submitted to the Australian National University, Canberra.

g) In 2009, I was the examiner of a PhD thesis by Jaulin Thibaut written on The Lebanese State and its Diaspora (Political Science) at the university of Aix-marseille III – Paul Cezanne.

UWS (1997-2001) LAU (1993-1995)

Membership of academic societies

Member, the Australian Sociological Association Member, the Australian Anthropological Society Member, the Australian Middle East Studies Association Member, the Lebanese Sociological Association Member, The Arab Sociological Association

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TEACHING RECORD Curriculum Development (see also the above section on leadership) When I taught at UWS (1992), Nepean, I designed and coordinated a course called “Multicultural Studies”. Between 1993 and 1995, while teaching at LAU, Beirut, I had the primary responsibility of teaching courses in Sociology, Social work, Lebanese Government and Administration, Cultural Studies II and III. When teaching at Sydney University (1996), I designed a course on Post-Coloniality and Arab Islam. While at UWS (1997-99), I was the course coordinator of Sociology 1 and 2 (students doing each course exceeded 300). I was also responsible for designing and teaching two other courses, Sociology of Migration, Social Thought and The Middle East: an Anthropological Approach. When at NDU (2000-2004), I was responsible for teaching and coordinating Introduction to Sociology course. Also, I initiated and designed three courses, Sociology of Migration, Globalisation and the State and Sociology of Music. Between 2004 and mid 2007 at LAU, I initiated the revision of the MA Program in International Relations, the BA Program in International Relations, the BA Program in Education and Psychology and the BA Program in Social Work and Community Developments. I introduced a Minor in Sociology and proposed and introduced an MA Program in Migration Studies. I designed new courses including, but not limited to Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Migration, Globalisation, Transnationalism Migration and the State, the Politics of Migration Gender Studies, Sociology of Youth, Everyday Life, Popular Culture and Society, Contemporary Sociological Theories and Media and Society. June 2010 until January 2011, I was appointed as a Visiting fellow at the Institute for Society and Culture, Parramatta campus, UWS. In 2013, the Institute for Society and Culture has granted me the status of an Adjunct Research Fellow. Coursework Taught Currently, I’m teaching two courses at LAU, one is an introductory course in Sociology and an MA seminar called “The Politics of Migration". In previous semesters, I also taught Sociology of Migration, Gender Studies, Sociological Theories, Modern Arab and Political Thought and Sociology of Religion. In other universities, I have also taught:

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Research Methods, Macquarie University and University of Western Sydney (UWS)

Sociology 1&2 Macquarie University and UWS, Macarthur Migrant Cultures, UWS, Macarthur Crime and Deviance, Macquarie University, University of Western

Sydney and LAU Sociology of Youth, LAU Sociology of the Family, UWS, Macarthur Sociology of Migration, UWS, Macarthur Social Thought, UWS, Campbelltown Anthropology of the Middle East, UWS, Macarthur Multicultural Studies, UWS, Nepean Post-Coloniality and Arab Islam, Department of Anthropology,

University of Sydney Media and Society, NDU Sociological Theories, LAU Sociology of Religion, LAU Sociology of the Arab World, LAU Gender Studies, LAU Politics of Developing Societies, LAU Lebanese Politics, LAU Senior Studies, LAU Sociology of Migration, LAU Contemporary Arab Political Thought, MA course, LAU Cultural Studies I, II and III, LAU Transnationalism, State and Society, MA course, LAU Politics and Migration, MA course, LAU

Subject materials For each subject that I have convened, I have produced comprehensive, detailed and meticulous subject outlines. I have collected well chosen printed and audio-visual materials over a range of levels, topics and approaches, and been scrupulously diligent about availability of readings in Closed Reserve of the library. I have been consistent, up-to-date and assiduous about ordering books and videos for the library, relating to my areas of teaching. I have always chosen appropriate textbooks with care, and used them judiciously. Assessment My subject outlines (which I can make available) show that I use a range of complementary assessment techniques. Philosophy of teaching in general I am committed to teaching for social justice, as R.W. Connell (Schools and Social Justice, 1993, p.16) defines it, in terms of ‘fairness in distribution for which the normal criterion is equality’. This entails ‘curricular justice’, which (1) advances the interests and adopts the standpoint of the least

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advantaged; (2) is inclusive, participatory and democratic and therefore accessible to and enhancing the access to knowledge and decision-making power of the least advantaged social groups; (3) is engaged in the historical production of equality (Connell, 1993: pp. 43-48). Teaching and the discipline of sociology Good sociology is reflexive, and the teacher of this discipline should be sociological about teaching as well as teaching about sociology. This entails a social analysis by the sociology teacher of his or her own pedagogical process and the institutional sites and social relations in which this takes place, and the explicit teaching about these to the students in the process of teaching about sociology. Introductory sociology invariably encounters resistances in posing challenges to taken-for-granted ‘common sense’, or appearing as itself commonplace (we are all, after all, in society and have an understanding of it) dressed up in daunting jargon. These difficulties have to be anticipated and addressed in teaching the discipline at an introductory level. Pedagogical strategies My pedagogical strategies are accordingly based on the Gramscian method that Fiore (Antonio Gramsci, 1970, p.102) describes as ‘obstetric’: seeking to deliver the embryonic ‘good sense’ from the matrix of ‘common sense’, ‘renovating and making “critical” an already existing activity’ (Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1971; p. 331). This means ‘to order in a systematic, coherent and critical fashion’ ‘the healthy nucleus that exists in “common sense”, the part of it which can be called “good sense” and which deserves to be made more unitary and coherent’ (Gramsci, 1971, pp. 327, 328). This involves a distancing from the immediate and taken-for-granted, in order to develop conceptual tools which are to be applied to practices at hand: new ‘ways of seeing’ the familiar and everyday, now rendered more critical and coherent and penetrating beneath appearances to structures. Teaching style My teaching style is demanding and challenging, with high expectations: rigorous and content-rich, highly structured but informal and relaxed in tutorials. I expect, encourage, enable and extend regular reading, writing in ‘academic’ genres, and oral participation and presentation. Indications of skill, quality and effectiveness Student evaluations LAU student evaluations are available upon request.

The 1997 and 1998 SEEQ Evaluation for ‘Teaching, Learning and Social Diversity’ gives me a ‘lecturer rating’ of 6.9 (Social Thought), 7.8 (Intro to Sociology 2), 7.9 (Intro to Sociology 2) and 8 (Intro to Sociology 2) on a

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scale of 1 to 9 (with 1 being ‘very poor’ and 9 being ‘very good’). Copies of SEEQ Evaluation are available on request. A sample of student estimates of rapport Former student of sociology, Jack Andrew Leitner wrote: ‘Much of my enjoyment and high level of achievement in this subject (Intro to Soc) could not have been without the services of Dr. Tabar, whose dynamic and highly informative lectures and tutorials have been a big factor in my enjoyment and high level achievement in this subject...Dr. Tabar is an exceptional lecturer who is able to thoroughly explain and offer insight into the various theories, ideas and issues of contemporary sociology’ (25/11/98). I was assessed at 7.5, 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest) on the SEEQ, under the heading ‘Individual rapport’ by the students in the same subjects mentioned above.

LIST OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER RESEARCH

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Books

Tabar, P. (2013) Arab Communities in Australia, a Socio-Cultural Study,

Centre for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut (in Arabic).

Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, P. (2010) On Being Lebanese in

Australia: Identity, Racism and the Ethnic Field, the Institute for Migration

Studies, LAU Press, Beirut.

Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G., and Collins, J. (2005) Al-Lubnaniyoun Fi

'Australia: qira`a fi al-hawiyya wa al-ounsouriyya fi zaman al-`aoulama [The

Lebanese in Australia: A Critical Discourse on Identity and Racism in the

Age of Globalisation, Beirut: Mokhtarat (Arabic edition of Kebabs, Kids,

Cops and Crime, updated with a new preface). 239pp,

[ISBN 9953-416-419]

Poynting, S., Noble, G., Tabar, P. and Collins, J. (2004) ‘Bin Laden in the

Suburbs’: Criminalising the Arab Other, Institute of Criminology Series,

2004, Sydney, University of Sydney, Law School.

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Tabar, P. (2004) Lebanese Migrants in Australia and New Zealand, an

Annotated Bibliography, Lebanese Emigration Research Centre, Notre

Dame University.

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2000) Kebabs, Kids, Cops

and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime, Sydney: Pluto Press. 276pp.

Edited Books

Batrouney, T., Boos, T., Escher, A. and Tabar, P. (eds.) (2014) Palestinian,

Lebanese and Syrian Communities in the World: Theoretical Frameworks

and Empirical Studies, Germany: the Universitätsverlag Winter (UWH),

Heidelberg, 219pp, [ISBN: 978-3-8253-6403-8]

Tabar, P. & Skulte-Ouaiss, J. (eds.) (2010) Politics, Culture and the

Lebanese Diaspora, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 406pp,

[ISBN(10): 1-4438-2329-5]

Tabar, P. (ed.) (2005) Lebanese Diaspora, History, Racism and Belonging,

LAU, Beirut.

Evidence of academic standing of published works

1. On Being Lebanese in Australia (2010) has been reviewed up till now in

several refereed Journals. These are Mashriq Mahjar (2013, no.1), Journal

of Intercultural Studies (34:1, 2013) Migration Studies (2013, 1-4), Race

and Class (2012, 53: 100), Arab Studies Quarterly. It has been

recommended on the list of readings in many university courses on

migration, racism and cultural studies.

2. Bin Laden in the Suburbs (2004) – has perhaps been my most significant

publication. This book sold out earlier this year and is currently being

revised for a second edition and has a UK distributor. Bin Laden was

reviewed not just in refereed journals, but also in newspapers (such as the

Sydney Morning Herald) and the magazine New Internationalist, with a

worldwide audience of over 50,000 which placed it on their list of

recommended educational resources, declaring it an ‘excellent book’. Few

scholarly books achieve such a wide range of audiences. In the dozen or so

reviews it received, Bin Laden is frequently described as ‘powerful’,

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‘important’, ‘incisive and compelling’, ‘nuanced and multi-levelled’: a

‘timely, highly readable book based on thorough empirical research’.

Citations include

A brief selection of diverse places where it has been cited includes:

Koo, K. Lee (2005) ‘Terror Australis: Security, Australia and the 'War on

Terror' Discourse’ Borderlands 4 1, 2005.

Mason, V. (2004) ‘Strangers in the lucky country’, Comparative Studies of

South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24,1: 233-243.

Van Krieken, R. et al. (2006) Sociology Pearson Education, 3rd edition.

Reviews include:

Alternative Law Journal 30, 4, 2005:202.

ANZ Journal of Criminology April 2005:159-161.

Australian and Pacific Migration Journal 14 (4), pp. 501-503, 2005

Cultural Studies Review 12,1, 2006:209-211.

Current Issues in Criminal Justice 17,2, 2005.

Global Media and Communication 2, 2006: 105-108.

Journal of Intercultural Studies 26, 3, 2005.

Media International Australia 115, 2005:146-147.

New Internationalist Jan-Feb, 2005

Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald 6-7/11/04:13

Curriculum

Bin Laden is used widely in teaching. The book is recommended reading on

the following courses:

Comparative and International Law, University of Tulsa:

Media, Crime and Human Rights, City University London:

Sex, Violence and Transgression, University of Sydney Dept of Gender

Studies: CUL00210, Southern Cross University: Australia/Asia

Youth Cultures and Moral Panics, University of Western Sydney

Contemporary Society, University of Western Sydney

Juvenile Crime and Justice, University of Western Sydney

2. Kebabs, Kids. Cops and Crimes (2000) was an earlier book, but has sold

more copies (well over 2000) and was more widely read amongst non-

academics. One of the reviews refers to Kebabs as ‘remarkably prescient’. It

has also been translated into Arabic by a Lebanese publisher (see

publications). It was also the focus of many media appearances, including:

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Bagnall, D. (2001) ‘The other Australians’, the Bulletin July 18.

Bankstown Express ‘Crimes Analysed’ 23/11/2000:2.

Daily Telegraph ‘Police add to violence’ 22/11/00:6.

Triple J, 27/11/2000

It was also the subject of speeches in parliament (Michael Lynch, state

member for Liverpool, 5/9/2001; 24/10/2001)

Reviews include

Australian Geographical Studies, 41 (3) 335-337 (2003)

Journal of Australian Political Economy 48.

Citations include

Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW (2003) Race for the Headlines Attorney-

Generals Department, Sydney.

Dreher, T. (2003) ‘Speaking up and talking back’, Media International

Australia 109: 121-137.

Manning, P. (2003) ‘Arabic and Muslim people in Sydney’s daily

newspapers’, Media International Australia 109: 50-70

Mansouri, F. and Trembath, A. (2005) ‘Multicultural education and racism:

The case of

Arab-Australian students in contemporary Australia’ International

Education Journal, 2005, 6(4), 516-529.

Murji, K. and Solomos, J. (2005) ‘Introduction’ in their (Eds) Racialization

Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Van Krieken, R. et al (2006) Sociology Pearson Education 3rd edition.

Media appearance:

89.7 FM Eastside radio: Perspectives with Mark Braidwood, May 2 2004

Curriculum

Kebabs has been used in several Australian University courses, including the

first year ‘Australian Studies’ and the ‘Specialist reporting’ units at the

University of Technology Sydney.

The University of South Australia’s ‘Rights and Racism’ unit.

Macquarie University’s ‘Australian Media’

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Sydney University: Media in Contemporary Society

Queensland University: From Nationalism to Cosmopolitanism,

and it is recommended for secondary teaching on the Department of

Education’s ‘Racism, no way’ site:

http://www.racismnoway.com.au/classroom/lesson_ideas/20010731_37.html

Further evidence of academic standing of published works

Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime and Bin Laden in the Suburbs were

highly acclaimed by reviewers as an important contribution to various

academic fields (Criminology, Sociology and Cultural Studies in particular)

and as an important intervention in social debates about crime and ethnicity.

It was particularly valued for its ability to address academic, research/policy

and general readerships. Many university departments across Australia use

these two books for courses in Youth Studies, Criminology, Australian

Studies, Sociology, Racism and Ethnicity, Cultural Studies and so on (and in

a course in a United States University). It was also excerpted in the

publication Wog Art (vol.1, issues 4 & 5).

As one reviewer said:

“The release of Kebabs has opened up a bright chapter in scholarship into

race and class in Australia. Kebabs is well written and well argued, and is

finding a wide audience. It is also a scholarly book that is explicit about the

intervention it is making into contemporary politics. Indeed, Kebabs has

already had an impact. We are already seeing the media being a bit more

careful about racial stereotyping and the police force having to explain its

campaigns to raise funding or justify its arbitrary powers by more

sophisticated use of the meaning of ‘crime-gang’. Kebabs is not the last

word on the subject of race and class in Australia, but it is a great start for

anyone looking for a point of access into this evolving issue” (Rafferty,

2001: 146).

Book Chapters

Paul Tabar. 2018. “Migration and Transnational Arab Families” In: Suad

Joseph, (Ed.), Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews. Syracuse University

Press. Pp. 369-398

Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2017), “The ‘career’ of a migrant: time, space and

the settling process”, in Critical Reflections on Migration, ‘Race’ and

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Multiculturalism, Australia in a Global Context, Boese, M. and Marotta, V.

(Eds.), Routledge.

Tabar, P. & Maalouf, W. (2016), “The emergence of a ‘Diasporic political

field’: a case for political remittances”, in Migration and Social Remittances

in a Global Europe, Nowicka, Magdalena, Šerbedžija, Vojin (Eds.),

Palgrave.

Tabar, P. (2015) ‘Highly-Skilled Migration’, in Talents on the move: High-

skilled migration in the Middle-East and North Africa, T. B. Tauris.

Noble, G. & Tabar, P. (2014) ‘Learning to be Lebanese: fashioning an

ethnicised habitus in multicultural Australia’, in T. Batrouney, T. Boos, A.

Escher and P. Tabar (eds.)Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Communities in

the World: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Studies, Germany: the

Universitätsverlag Winter (UWH), Heidelberg, 219pp, [ISBN: 978-3-8253-

6403-8]

Tabar, P. (2011) ‘Mobilisation for national voting abroad: The participation

of Lebanese-Australians in 2009 elections in Lebanon’, in Metamorphose

des Figures du Leadership au Liban, Institut Francais du Proche Orient and

Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies, Beirut (in Arabic, English and French).

Tabar, P. (2011) ‘Politics Among Arab Migrants in Australia’ in Paul Tabar

& Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss (eds.) (2010) Politics, Culture and the Lebanese

Diaspora, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 406pp, [ISBN(10): 1-4438-

2329-5]

Tabar, P. (2009) ‘Cronulla riots: community leadership, generational and

class conflicts’. In Greg Noble (ed) Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots

and the Limits of Australian Multiculturalism. Sydney Institute of

Criminology Press Institute of Criminology Series, 2004, Sydney,

University of Sydney, Law School.

Tabar, P. (2006) ‘The Maronite Church in Lebanon: From Nation-Building

to a Diasporan/Transnational Institution’. In Francoise De Bel-Air (ed)

Migration et Politique au Moyent-Orient. Institut Francais du Proche-Orient,

Beirut, Lebanon.

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Tabar, P. (2002) ‘Migrant Capital and Political Elite in Lebanon’. In The

Millennial Lecture Series, Notre Dame University, Beirut.

Tabar, P. (1997), ‘Le Movement de la jeunesse Zghortiote: le destin d’une

association civile en confrontation avec le pouvoir clanique’. In J. Bahout

and C. Douayhi (eds) La Vie Publique au Liban: expression et

recomposition du politique. Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-

Orient Contemporain, Beirut.

Tabar, P. (1996), ‘Structural Impediments to the Formation of Civil Society:

Politics of Identity in Lebanon’. In Recognition of the Other: Lessons from

Lebanon. LAU Press, Beirut.

Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2009) ‘‘I am lord, ... I am local’: masculinity,

ethnicity, sexuality and making yourself at home’, in Masculinity in Space,

Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England.

Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (2009) ‘Looking for Respect:

Lebanese Immigrant Young Men in Australia’.

In M. Donaldson, R. Hibbins, R. Howson and B. Pease (eds.) Migrant Men:

Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration

Experience. New York: Routledge.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2005) ‘Representations of youth in

Sydney’, in P. Tabar (ed.) Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism and

Belonging. Beirut: Lebanese American University Press: 213-247.

Poynting, S, Noble, G and Tabar, P (2004), 'Middle Eastern Appearances:

"Ethnic Gangs" and Media Panic', in Schneider, J and Tilley, N (Eds),

Gangs. Ashgate, Aldershot: 171-196.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P (2003) ‘Protest Masculinity and

Lebanese-Australian youth in Western Sydney: An ethnographic study’. In

M. Donaldson and S. Tomsen (eds) Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities. Sydney: Pluto Press, pp.132-155 [ISBN 1 86403 121 2]

Noble, G. and Tabar, P.(2002), ‘Strategic Essentialism and Hybridity among

Arab Australian Youths in South-Western Sydney’. In Hage, G. (ed.) Arab

Australians Today. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 145-160.

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Noble, G, Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1999), ‘'Lebanese Youth and Social

Identity’. In R. White (ed.) Australian Youth Subcultures: On the Margins

and in the Mainstream. Hobart: Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies,

pp. 130-137.

Journal Articles – Refereed

Tabar, P. (2016) ‘The Lebanese diasporic field: the impact of sending and

receiving states’, in Immigrants and Minorities. Link is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2016.1191358

Tabar, P. (2014) “‘Political Remittances’: the case of Lebanese expatriates

voting in national elections”. Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 35, Issue

4.

Tabar, P. (2007) “‘Habiibs’ in Australia: Language, Identity and

Masculinity.” Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, May 2007,

pp. 157-172.

Tabar, P. (2005) “The Cultural and Affective Logic of the Dabki: A Study of

a Lebanese Folkloric Dance in Australia.” Journal of Intercultural Studies,

Vol 26, Nos.1-2, February-May 2005:139-157 (an e-copy is provided).

Tabar, P. (2002) “`Ashura in Sydney: the transformation of a Shi`i religious

ritual in Sydney.” Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3: 2002.

Tabar, P. (2002) ‘Migrant Capital and Political Elite in Lebanon’. In The

Millennial Lecture Series, Notre Dame University, Beirut.

Tabar, P. (2001) ‘Foucault, Bourdieu and Lacan and the Analysis of White

Australia Discourse and Practice’. Palma: Research Journal 2, Vol. 7: 115-

123.

Tabar, P. (1997) ‘The Modernity of Political Islam: between the Sacred and

the Profane’, The Method, vol. 9, winter: 15-24, Cyprus.

Tabar, P. (1997) ‘Deconstruction: a Critical Evaluation of the Discursive

Turn’, the New Culture, 275, pp. 20-30, Cyprus.

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Tabar, P. (1994) ‘The Image of power in Maronite Historical and Political

Discourse’, The Beirut Review, 7, 5, pp. 20-31.

Co-authored Journal Articles – Refereed

Aboultaif E. W. and Tabar, P. (2019) “Collective vs. Communal Memory in

Lebanon,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, forthcoming 25(1), 2019.

قراءة في بنية الحقل األكاديمي (، " 2019، لما قابنجي ومريم الحاصباني )بول طبرهال عواضة،

األميركية والجامعة اللبنانية : الهيئة التعليمية والتوظيف والترقي في الجامعة في العلوم االجتماعية

. 2019، شتاء 45، العدد إضافات"، والجامعة اللبنانية نموذجا األميركية

Greg Noble & Paul Tabar (2017) Wounded Detachments: Cronulla, Social

Memory and the Injuries of Racism, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38:3,

271-283, DOI:

10.1080/07256868.2017.1314260

Egan, M & Tabar, P. (2016) ‘Bourdieu in Beirut: Wasta, the State and Social

Reproduction in Lebanon’, in Middle East Critique. Link is:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19436149.2016.1168662

Skulte-Ouaiss, J. and Tabar, P. (2014) ‘Strong in their weakness or weak in

their strength?: The case of Lebanese Diaspora engagement with Lebanon’,

Immigrants and Minorities, Taylor and Francis.

Salamey, P & Tabar, P. (2012) ‘Democratic transition and sectarian

populism: the case of Lebanon’, in Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2012, 1–16.

Baroudi, S. and Tabar, P. (2009) ‘Spiritual Authority versus Secular

Authority: Relations between the Maronite Church and the State in Lebanon

under the Pax-Syriana: 1990-2005’, in Critique, 2010.

Salamey, I. and Tabar, P. (2008) 'Consociational Democracy and Urban

Sustainability: Transforming the Confessional Divides in Beirut',

Ethnopolitics, 7: 2, pp.239 — 263.

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Tabar, P., Poynting, S., Noble, G., and Collins, J. (2008) ‘The Lebanese

Community in Sydney: A socioeconomic and cultural reading’. Idafaat, The

Arab Journal of Sociology No2, Spring, pp.24-58 [in Arabic].

Tabar, P., Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2003) “The Rise and Falter of the

Field of Ethnic Politics in Australia: the case of Lebanese community

leadership.” Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2003: 267-287.

Poynting, S., Tabar, P and Noble, G. (2003) ‘Lost between Cultures or

Resisting Racism? Second generation Lebanese immigrant young men in

Sydney’, Palma Journal 9, 1:93-114.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2001) ‘Middle Eastern Appearances:

“Ethnic Gangs”, moral panic and media framing’. The Australian and New

Zealand Journal of Criminology 34, 1, April 2001: 67-90.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1999) ‘Intersections’ of Masculinity

and Ethnicity: A study of male Lebanese immigrant youth in Western

Sydney. Race, Ethnicity and Education 2, 1, March, pp. 59-77.

Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P., (1999) “Youth, Ethnicity and the

Mapping of Identities: Strategic essentialism and hybridity among male

Arabic-speaking youth in South-western Sydney.” Communal/Plural 7, 1,

April 1999: 29-44.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P (1998) “‘If anyone called me a wog,

they wouldn’t be speaking to me alone’: Protest masculinity and Lebanese

youth in Western Sydney.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 3,2,

Special Issue on Australian Masculinity, December, pp. 76-94.

Reviews Tabar, P. (2016) ” "ماعية والسلطة السياسية في لبنانالطبقات اإلجت

448، العدد 2016 ، حزيرانالمستقبل العربي

Tabar, P. (2016) “تحوالت الطبقة الوسطى في الوطن العربي ”

434، العدد2016حزيران المستقبل العربي،

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Tabar, P. (2009), Review article of Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries,

(ed.) Sari Hanafi, in Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal,

November, vol. 8, no. 2, 2009.

Tabar, P. (2000), Review of White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in

a Multicultural Society, Ghassan Hage, Palma, Research Journal, 6, 1, pp.

100-116.

Tabar, P. (1995), Review of Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said, Ab`aad,

2, 7, pp. 11-22.

Tabar, P. (1994), Review of the Arab World: Society, Culture and State,

Halim Barakat, Ab`aad, 1, 6, pp. 20-32.

Articles in professional magazines Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2000) Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime

Ethnic Spotlight: Journal of the Federation of Ethnic Communities's

Councils of Australia. Migration and Youth Issue, June. pp. 24-25.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1997) ‘We Stay Lebanese Together’:

A Study in ‘Protest Masculinity’, Education Australia 37, 1997.

Articles in newspapers Tabar, P. ‘Upcoming elections: confessional groups are the real voters’, Al-

Ofok, no.15, May, 2009.

Tabar, P. ‘On confessionalism and the need to activate class conflict in

Lebanon’, Al-Ofok, no. 14, April, 2009.

Tabar, P. ‘What Marxism can offer to analyse non-class conflicts’, As-Safir,

February 27, 2009, Beirut.

Tabar, P. ‘The impact of the right of voting on the Lebanese community in

Australia’, Al-Ofok, March, 2009.

Tabar, P. ‘The Abolition of Political Communalism: a Democratic Demand

or a Communalist One’, El-Telegraph, December 1, 1997, Sydney.

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Tabar, P. ‘The Death of Diana in the Age of Globalisation and the Recession

of Radical Politics’, El-Telegraph, September 24, 1997, Sydney.

Tabar, P. ‘For the Public Intellectual: a Critique of the Deconstructionist

View of the Intellectual’, As-Safir, December, 1996, Beirut.

Tabar, P. ‘Popular Music and Post-Coloniality: the Case of Ziaad Rahabani’,

Al-Hayat, no.12194, 1996, London.

Tabar, P. ‘Lebanese General Elections of 1996: the Role of Migrant Capital

in the Formation of Political Elite in Lebanon’, As-Safir, September, 1996,

Beirut.

Tabar, P. ‘A Critique of Arkoun’s Concept of Secularisation’, Al-Hayat, no.

10730, 1992, London.

Tabar, P. ‘Neo-Islamacists and the Question of Identity’, Al-Hayat, no.

10744, 1992, London.

Tabar, P. ‘From the Dialectic of the “I” and the “Other” to Intersubjectivity’,

Al-Hayat, no. 10738, 1992, London.

Tabar, P. ‘Folkloric Dance and Identity in a Multicultural Society: the case

of Sydney’, Al-Hayat, no. 988, 1991, London.

Tabar, P. ‘The Gulf Crisis: a Test for Multiculturalism’, An-Nahar (an

Arabic Magazine published in Sydney), no. 788, 1991, Sydney.

Tabar, P. ‘Multiculturalism between Theory and Practice’, An-Nahar, no.

678, 1989, Sydney.

Research refereed papers

Tabar, P. (2010) Lebanon: A country of emigration and immigration. Paper

submitted to Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) at the

American University in Cairo (AUC).

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Tabar, P. (2010) ‘The Lebanese Jewish Community: Emigration and

diasporic relations’, Viewpoints, Migration and the Mashreq, The Middle

East Institute, Washington DC, April 2010.

Tabar, P. and Rassi, R. (2010) ‘Lebanon: A sending and Receiving Country

of Arab Labor’, in Intra-Regional Labour Mobility in the Arab, International

organization for Migration.

Tabar, P. (2009) Immigration and Human Development: Lebanon as a case

study. A background paper for the Human Development Report 2009.

Tabar, P. (2009) Politics among Arab Migrants in Australia. CARIM,

RR2009/09, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, San Domenico

di Fiesoli (FI): European University Institute, 2009.

Reports

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2006) Youth, Ethnicity and

Crime in Sydney: Final Report to Industry Partners, University of

Technology, Sydney (a copy is obtainable upon request).

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2002) Gangs, Crime and

Community safety: Perceptions and Experiences in Multicultural Sydney,

University of Technology, Sydney, Centre For Transforming Culture,

Sydney.

Collins, J., Collins, C. Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2002a) Youth,

Ethnicity and Crime in the Canterbury Local Government Area, University

of Technology, Sydney.

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2002b) Youth, Ethnicity

and Crime in Burwood, University of Technology, Sydney.

Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (2002c) Youth, Ethnicity

and Crime in Chatswood, University of Technology, Sydney.

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Refereed conference papers

Tabar, P. (2013) “ Diaspora and Home Politics”, paper presented at

Diasporas, development and Governance in the global South conference,

organised by Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario,

may 27-28, 2013.

Tabar, P. (2013) “Lebanese Australians and their participation in the 2009

elections in Lebanon” paper presented at an academic workshop on Arab

Expatriates and Revolt in their Homeland organized by The Center for

Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and The Migration Policy

Centre of the European University Institute, June 28, 2013 - 10:00am - June

29, 2013 - 1:10pm, at Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South Room 020,

1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Tabar, P. (2012) “Transnational political mobilization: the case of the

Lebanese diaspora” Translating Citizenship, organized by l’institut Francais

du Proche Orient and Transeuropeennes (Paris) Oct 8-9, 2012, Amman,

Jordan.

Tabar, P. (2012) “The nexus between migration and political development,

and sectarianism and the lack of democracy and social justice: A research

program”, Realigning Power Geometries in the Arab World, Leipzig, 24-26

February, 2012, Oriental Institute of the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Tabar, P. (2012) “Diaspora Politics and Diaspora Policies” Mediterranean

Research, Montecatini Terme, 21-24 March 2012, organized by European

University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Italy.

Tabar, P. and Skulte-Ouaiss, J. (2010) "Mapping the Politics of the Lebanese

Diaspora", paper presented at MESA (Middle East Studies Association)

Annual Conference November 18-21 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San

Diego, California.

Salamey, I. and Tabar, P. (2010) ‘Democratic Transition and the Challenges

of Sectarian Populism: The Case of Lebanon’, paper presented at the

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting within Division 44

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panel entitled "Ethnic Divisions, Patronage, Voting Behavior and Electoral

Politics in Weak Democracies ".

Tabar, Paul (2008) ‘Arab Diasporan Politics in Australia: A sociological

approach’. Paper to be presented to TASA conference, Dec 2-3, Melbourne

University.

Tabar, P. (2006) Youth, Ethnicity and Lebanese-Australian Sexuality in

Sydney. Paper presented at the conference on ‘Everyday

Multiculturalism’ organised by Centre for Research on Social

Inclusion, Macquarie University, September 28-29, 2006.

Tabar, P. (2004) Lebanese Diaspora and the Transformation of the Maronite

Church Identity. Paper presented at a conference on Migration and Politics

in the Middle East organised by Institut Francais du Proche-Orient (IFPO),

Amman, Jordan, December 12, 2004.

Tabar, P. (2004) the Cultural logic of the Dabki in Australia: ethnicity,

Class and Home-Building. Paper presented at a conference on Migration,

Affect and the Senses, the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, National

University, Canberra, Australia, Wed 16th

– Fri 18th

June, 2004.

Tabar, P. (2004) Elite Formation in Australia: The case of the Lebanese

community. Paper presented to The Faculty of Political Science, Public

Administration and Diplomacy, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2002) 'Lost between Two Cultures?

The lived experience of second-generation Lebanese immigrant youth in

Sydney'. Paper presented to the XV World Congress of the International

Sociological Association, Queensland University of Technology,

Brisbane, 9 July.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1997),‘“If anyone called me a wog,

they wouldn’t be speaking to me alone”: Protest masculinity and Lebanese

youth in Western Sydney Schools’, paper presented at the Fifth International

Literacy and Education Research Network Conference, Alice Springs, 2

October [refereed and published at

http://www.edoz.com.au/cwcc/docs/LERN/papers/poynting.html].

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Conference Papers

Tabar, P. (2017) Syrian Refugees and the Lebanese National Field. Paper

presented at a conference on The Politics of Reception: Syria’s

Neighbourhood as a Social Field, LAU Byblos, 1-3 November 2017

Tabar, P. And Aboulateif, W. (2017) Memory and nation-building in

Lebanon. Paper presented at a conference on The impact of the ‘Arab

Spring’ on socio-political developments in Lebanon: Preconditions, process,

and consequences, Department of Social Sciences at the Lebanese American

University, October 19 to 20, 2017, in Byblos, Lebanon

Tabar, P. (2015) The Syrian Refugee in Lebanon: A Political Reading. Paper

presented at a conference on The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Policies of/ and

Crisis Impact on Receiving Societies, organised by LAU, March 27-28,

2015, Commodore Hotel, Hamra, Beirut.

Kabbanji, L., Awada, H. and Tabar, P. (2015) Formation des élites,

mobilités étudiantes, et structuration du champ académique au Liban. Paper

presented in The Second Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)

Conference on “Questioning Social Inequality and Difference in the Arab

Region”. Conference held on March 13-15, 2015, Crown Plaza, Hamra,

Beirut.

Tabar, P. (2015) Home-Grown Jihadists: The Case of Australia. Paper

presented in a conference on: Radical Militant Groups and the Rule of Law

in the Middle East, organised by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Rule of Law

Program Middle East / North Africa Country Office, Palestinian Territories,

March 9-12, 2015, Villa La Collina, Cadenabbia, Italy.

Tabar, P. (2008) Diversity and Multiculturalism: A comparative analysis of

Australia and Lebanon. Paper presented at a conference on The

Changing Ecclesial Context: Impact of Migration on Living Together in

Diversity organised by World Council of Churches-Middle East

Council of Churches, Beirut, Lebanon: 14-16 April 2008.

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Tabar, P. (2007) Social Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon.

Paper presented at a conference on International Migration: The Situation of

Migrant Workers in the Gulf and the Middle East organised by The

International Federation of Human Rights, Qatar, 10th – 11

th June, 2007.

Tabar, P. (2006) The Implication of the Lebanese Crisis: July War 2006.

Paper presented at a Symposium organised by The Centre for Middle East

and North African Studies, Macquarie University, August, 2006.

Tabar, P., Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (2003) Sexuality and every day

experience: The case of Lebanese youth in Sydney. Paper presented at The

Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, 4-6 December,

2003, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Tabar, P. (2002) Self-criminalisation and Lebanese Community leaders in

Australia. Paper presented at a conference on Arab-Australians: Taking a

Stand, Victorian Arabic Social Services, October 31-November 1, 2002.

Tabar, P. (2002) Youth Identity: a site for contestation. Paper presented at a

conference on Arab Australian Youth, Citizenship and Belonging,

University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus, July 2-3, 2002.

Tabar, P. (2002) Islam: the Identity of a Precarious City. Paper presented to

NDU Conference on ‘Identity, Space and Globalisation: the Relationship

between the City and the Rural Area in North Lebanon’, Tripoli, May 17-18,

2002.

Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S., (2001) Ethnic Leadership in

Australia: a Bourdieuian Analysis. Paper presented to TASA conference,

Sydney University, 13-15 December. This paper is later published in Journal

of Intercultural Studies, 2003. See above.

Tabar, P. (2001) Ashura: a Shi`i Religious Ritual in Sydney. Paper presented

to the Lebanese Diaspora conference, Lebanese American University,

Beirut, 29-30 June.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (2001) Caught between Two

Cultures?: Second generation Lebanese immigrant youth in Sydney and the

rhetoric of rescue. Paper presented to the Lebanese Diaspora Conference,

Lebanese American University, Beirut, June 29.

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Tabar, P. (1999) Religious Rituals in the Context of a migrant Society: the

Case of Shi`is in Sydney. Paper presented to the Diversity conference:

National Reconciliation, Multiculturalism and Human Rights: University of

Technology, Sydney, December 1999.

Poynting, S., Collins, J., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1999) ‘Bankstown Boys’

and ‘Boys in Blue’: Ethnic Youth, Police and the Conflict of Masculinities.

Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological

Association, Monash University, 8 December.

Poynting, S., Tabar, P. and Noble, G. (1998) Middle Eastern Appearances:

‘Ethnic Gangs’ and media panic. Paper presented to the Annual Conference

of the Australian Sociological Association, Queensland University of

Technology, Brisbane, 1-4 December, 1998.

Tabar, P., Poynting, S. and Noble, G. (1998) ‘They don’t deserve to be

Australian’: The politics of representation among Lebanese migrants. Paper

presented to the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological

Association, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 1-4

December, 1998.

Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1998), ‘Two Different Worlds?

Strategic Identities and the Myth of the Front Door Syndrome’ paper

presented to the Arab Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging

Conference, University of Sydney, 9 October.

Poynting, S., Noble, G. and Tabar, P. (1997), ‘Intersections’ of Masculinity

and Ethnicity in and around Schools: a study of male Middle-Eastern

background immigrant youth in western Sydney’, paper presented to the

Masculinities: Renegotiating Genders Conference, University of

Wollongong, 20 June.

Tabar, P., Noble, G. and Poynting, S. (1997), ‘Ethnic Youth and the Politics

of Identity: Multiculturalism and Hybridity’, paper presented to the Annual

Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of

Wollongong, 10 December.

Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1997), ‘“Sort of like slang for Arab”:

Lebanese youth and strategies of identity’. A paper presented to the Writing

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the West Conference, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 28

September.

Noble, G., Poynting, S. and Tabar, P. (1996), ‘Youth, Ethnicity and the

Negotiation of Identities’, paper presented to the Annual Conference of the

Australian Sociological Association, University of Tasmania, 6 December.

Roundtable discussion and Workshops

Tabar, P. (2015) Role of Political, Social Cultural Remittances in the

Development of Lebanon. Paper presented in a one day workshop on: The

Lebanese Diaspora, Remittances, and Economic Development: Engagement

and Policy Reform. LAU NY organised the Workshop on Wednesday,

March 25, 2015, at LAU NY, 211 E.46th Street, New York, NY 10017.

In October 9-10, 2013, The International labour Organization invited me to

an Advisory Board Meeting with the objective to promote research within

the MENA region and help researchers establish a dialogue with those

responsible for policy formulation. The ultimate aim was to launch

MAGNET Research Network.

I was invited to Cairo in April, 2010, to launch the Report on Intra-Regional

labour Mobility in the Arab Region. The invitation was extended by the

International Organization for Migration and League of Arab States (TBC)

based on my contribution to the report by writing a chapter.

I acted as a discussant of the first chapter entitled Political Citizenship of

the National Human Development Report, Towards a Citizen’s State,

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

from 3:00-5:30pm, Beirut, Bristol Hotel,

Salon Bleu.

I was invited as a discussant to an Experts Meeting – Middle East and

North Africa

Peace, Conflict and Development Program Initiative organised by The

International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The aim was to discuss

the Critical Issues and Policy Developments in Peace and Conflict

Processes in the MENA

Region. The meeting took place in Grand Hyatt Hotel, Cairo, Egypt,

February 27-28, 200

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EXTENT OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION

Throughout the past few years (2006-2013), I engaged in the following

research activities:

1- Just submitted for a research project on: “The attitudes and Behaviour

of Employers of Domestic Workers in Lebanon”. The amount asked

for is USD 260,000 and the potential funders are the International

Labour Organisation (ILO).

2- Finishing an article with Dr. Salamey based on a survey in Lebanon

examining the relationship between political sectarianism and class

position. I am in the process of analysing the fieldwork data collected

in the past 4 months.

3- Designed and completed a research project funded by Canada’s

International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The funding was

USD320, 000 to conduct a research on trans-national relations and

public activities (it includes Australia, USA, and Canada). Project

completed in 2013.

4- Applied for a research funding to Doha Institute for Family Studies

and Development in 2008. The project was approved (US$25,000)

and I started working on it in Fall 2009. The aim of this project is to

examine marriage Patterns and Family Identity Among Arab

migrants: the case of Lebanese migrants in Sydney.

5- While in Sydney from the beginning of July and the end of September

2008, I was engaged in conducting fieldwork designed to examine

Diasporan Politics among the Arab-Australians. My research is

focusing on the Egyptian, the Palestinian, the Iraqi and the Lebanese

communities. This project is commissioned to me by the European

University Institute, Italy. It is now completed and published by

CARIM (see above).

6- During Winter 2007, I conducted fieldwork in Sydney and Melbourne

on the diasporisation of the Maronite Catholic Church in Australia.

This is done in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Research

(CCR) at the University of Western Sydney. The research resulted in a

publication of a chapter in a book (see above).

7- Co-authored a journal article with Dr. Salamey on ‘Consociational

Democracy and Urban Sustainability: Bridging the confessional

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Divides in Beirut’. The article is published in The Journal of

Etnopolitics (see above).

8- Collecting data on a village called Lala, in western Beqa`a Valley,

Lebanon. The aim is to study the impact of return migration on the

local political and power structure of this village community.

9- Designed a research project on Ethiopian community in Lebanon with

the assistance of Dr. Raed Jreidini, a sociologist from the Lebanese

University. We completed the interviews (200) sampling Ethiopians

living and working in Lebanon. The aim of the project is to examine

what happens to the culture of a minority group of migrants when they

are subjected to semi-slave work conditions as well as humiliation and

racism. The project is funded (USD20, 000) by the Organization for

International Migration (OIM).

I co-authored book on Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, racism and the

Ethnic Field, The Lebanese American University Press, Institute for

Migration Studies. Before the decision to publish the book was taken, the

book has been peer-reviewed by 3 anonymous professors, one local from

AUB and two international from Australia.

Finally, I completed the research and the writing of a chapter ‘Cronulla riots:

community leadership, generational and class conflicts’ for a book called

Lines in the Sand: the Cronulla Riots and the Limits of Australian

Multiculturalism. Sydney Institute of Criminology Press, edited by Greg

Noble. The book is now published.

Prior to these research activities, I finished two projects in Australia, one

examined issues of sexuality, gender and racism among young people of

Lebanese background living in Sydney, Australia. The project was funded

by the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney and a

number of community organisations. The second project involved an

investigation into the reasons for migrants of Lebanese and, more generally,

Arabic background not using the service provided by the Anti-

Discrimination Board when they are subjected to racism and discrimination.

I was a Principal Investigator in an ARC funded SPIRT Grant project for

2000-2001 on ‘Youth, Ethnicity and Crime in Sydney’, funded for a total of

AUD316, 922. This is an interdisciplinary joint project with Jock Collins

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(Economics and Finance, UTS), Greg Noble (Cultural Inquiry, UWS) and

Scott Poynting (Associate Professor, School of Humanities, University of

Western Sydney). I took a major role in the production of the initial research

design and participated in the writing of the application to the ARC. Despite

the difficulty of securing contracts from 26 Industry Partners, the first of

three phases is completed and analysis is underway. Phases 2 and 3 are

beginning concurrently. The project has been offered a further AUD10, 000

funding from Willoughby Council.

This research project investigated the complex relationship between youth,

ethnicity and crime in Sydney in response to the much-publicised events of

‘Lebanese crime’ and ‘Lebanese gangs’ in Lakemba and Bankstown from

late 1998. Groundwork began with seed funding from UWS Macarthur

(AUD11, 200, comprised of AUD7, 100 Quantum Research Bid, AUD2,

600 Faculty Research Grant, and AUD1,500 of the CRU funds), UWS

Nepean (AUD4, 000) and University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (AUD6,

000)

The project and the book have grown out of work proposed as early as 1993

in the context of the (then) moral panic about (‘Asian’) ‘ethnic gangs’ in

south-western Sydney: work which began with Greg Noble and Scott

Poynting in 1996 when they secured seed funding from UWS Macarthur and

Nepean for work on Masculinity and Ethnicity, and Ethnicity and Identity,

respectively. These projects have given rise to publications in international

refereed journals, scholarly Australian journals, edited books, and numerous

conference papers (see publications list).

The project, ‘Ethnicity and the Social Construction of Masculinity in

Schools’, was internally funded in 1996 through a seeding grant for AUD6,

000 by UWS Macarthur. It was a quasi-ethnographic study of the

‘intersections’ of masculinity and ethnicity as they are socially constructed

within and between the family, the school and ‘ethnic’ communities, and

involved free-ranging and open-ended interviews with twelve male high-

school students, their parents and their teachers. The boys come from one

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‘Anglo’ and two NESB immigrant ethnic groups, with homes and schools in

a south-western Sydney suburban locality.

The project ‘Youth and Ethnicities: Intercommunal Relations and Young

People in Western Sydney’, undertaken jointly with Greg Noble and Scott

Poynting, through the Centre for Intercommunal Studies at UWS Nepean,

examined the relationships between adolescents of different ethnic groups as

they are formed in the spaces between home and school. It involved

comparative case studies of three ethnic groups, exploring the dynamics of

identity formation in relation to interactions with other language background

youth, socio-economic contexts, and gender. We began preliminary

investigations in 1993, and received, for 1995-1996, Seed Grant funding of

AUD7, 585 from UWS Nepean.

The project, ‘Intersections with Ethnicity in the Social Construction of

Masculinity: An ethnographic study in a western Sydney secondary school’,

which received a UWS Foundation Grant of AUD7, 000, generated two

refereed publications and has vitally informed the ongoing Youth, Ethnicity

and Crime research.

Between 1996 and 1997, I secured a Staff Development Fund (AUD5, 000)

from UWS, Macarthur, to carry out a research on Migrant Religious

Ceremony in a South-Western Sydney Suburb. The project focused on

`Ashura, a Shi`i religious ceremony organised yearly by the Moslem Shi`is

around the world. The aim of the research was to examine the formal and

ideological transformation of the ceremonies in the context of migration and

in particular the way they come to articulate elements of the “migrant

conditions”. This research has generated two conference papers and a

journal article (as indicated above).

Finally, between 1994 and1995, I took part in a research on Expressions of

Power and Public Life in Post-War Lebanon. The research project was

organised and paid for by a French Research Centre on Near Eastern

Societies. This had generated a chapter in a book as indicated above.

Finally, my PhD thesis (Macq), The Dialectics of Unity and Disunity, Class,

Community and State in Lebanon, was based on a thorough research

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(historical, empirical) of how the forces of communalism and class had

impacted on the formation and fragmentation of the state in Lebanon up

until the end of the civil war in Lebanon (1989). My Honours thesis (1979)

was a theoretical discussion of Althusser’s structuralist concept of totality.