Author profile: Helen Mackreath

Helen Mackreath is a postgraduate researcher from the American University of Beirut. She has conducted research into the role of host communities providing assistance to Syrian refugees in North Lebanon for the Issam Fares Institute in Beirut. She has been published in LA Review of Books, The Economist, openDemocracy, and is also an editor of the Beirut Humanities Review.

Cosmopolitanism in Akkar? Why the Role of Host Families Is Significant

Helen Mackreath • May 28 2015 • Articles

Lebanese hospitality has implications for thinking about humanitarianism, the relation between communities and the state, and communities and the international

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