Angela Gissi

University College Dublin | UCD · School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy

World War One (WWI) represents a watershed in the history of the Middle East (Mashreq) due to dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Syria territories of the Levant, was home to Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Armenian, Jews, Muslims and other ethno-religious communities that coexisted. The Ottoman Empire as an ally of the German alliance in WWI, an...

This article engages in a critical analysis of authoritarian rule in pre-war Syria by examining the accounts of sixty-eight Syrian refugee women who were displaced in different areas of Lebanon in 2014. While participants’ ideas are informed by their experiences of war and refugeehood, an exploration of their memories of the pre-war period reveals...

In this article, I address the issue of ‘refugee’ denomination from the perspective of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon and argue that traditional representations of refugees shape negative interpretations of their own conditions, affect their wellbeing and constrain their abilities to move forward and build a dignified existence in exile. I identif...

In this article, I address the issue of ‘refugee’ denomination from the perspective of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon and argue that traditional representations of refugees shape negative interpretations of their own conditions, affect their wellbeing and constrain their abilities to move forward and build a dignified existence in exile. I identif...