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She is also the Regional Representative to the Arab Nations for the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE).
Dr. Nabti is the Founder and former Director of the Association for Volunteer Services which was established in 1998 ‘to promote, facilitate, and improve volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon and beyond’.
In 1998, after six years at AUB, she decided to take a (temporary?) leave from academia to found the first and only volunteer association/center in Lebanon: -- the Association for Volunteer Services (AVS). In 1992, after teaching for three years at Stanford University's program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, Patricia became a professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut (AUB).
Her thesis International Emigration from a Lebanese Village: Bishmizzinis on Six Continents studied Lebanese migration over a 100-year period, taking the village of Bishmizzine, al-Kourah in Lebanon as a case study.
She was a Lecturer in the Cultures, Ideas, and Values Program of Stanford University from 1989 to 1992, and a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the American University of Beirut from 1992 to 1998.
Dr. Nabti also holds a BA in Political Science and MA in Education from Stanford University. Patricia then obtained her Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkely. Developed by the Municipality of Bishmizzine in collaboration with USAID.
Al-Anwar/بشمزين - الانوار ٢٠٠١
Author (if not the Bishmizzini):
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ميزة من صفحتين على بشمزين
2001 two-page spread in Al-Anwar newspaper
Dr.Patricia Nabti, PhD Dr. Three years later she attended the American University of Beirut in Lebanon for one year on the Stanford- AUB Exchange Program. Patricia Nabti has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on the Arab World. As models for the AVS, she used her experiences as a volunteer both in the United States and in Lebanon and her exposure to the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford, the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County (Santa Rosa, California), and Service-Learning 2000. Dr. Nabti was the coordinator of the Arab Initiative to Foster a Culture of Volunteering in 2010-2011. Patricia Nabti, Ph.D., CVADr. which was established in 2012. Patrician, a dual American/Lebanese citizen is the only current member of board or staff of the AVS (a Lebanese organization) to be of foreign origin. Afif Tannous - EmigrationTitle: Emigration, a Force of Change in an Arab Village Bishmizzini: Afif Ishaq Tannous Living Where: Deceased - lived in Virginia, USA Source: Rural Sociology 7, pp 62-74 Description: Article on the impact of emigration on Bishmizzine. Patricia Nabti - ThesisTitle: International Migration From a Lebanese Village: Bishmizzinis on Six Continents Genre: Unpublished Doctoral Thesis Bishmizzini: Patricia Mihaly Nabti Author (if not the Bishmizzini): Wife of Michel Georges Nabti Living Where: Bishmizzine Source: University of California, Berkeley Description: Over 100 years of Lebanese emigration, taking Bishmizzine as a case study. Afif Tannous - ThesisTitle: Trends of Social and Cultural Change in Bishmizeen, an Arab Village of North Lebanon Genre: Unpublished Doctoral Thesis Bishmizzini: Afif Ishaq Tannous Living Where: Deceased - lived in Virginia, USA Source: Rural Sociology, Cornell University Description: Earliest academic study of Bishmizzine. She later received a BA in Political Science and an MA in Education, both from Stanford University. Study of social and cultural change, taking Bishmizzine as a case study. Afif Tannous - Social ChangeTitle: Social Change in an Arab Village Bishmizzini: Afif Ishaq Tannous Living Where: Deceased - lived in Virginia, USA Source: American Sociologist Review, 6.5: 650-662 Description: A study of the causes of social change in a rural village, taking Bishmizzine as a case study. Afif Tannous - Emigration/Social ChangeTitle: Emigration as a Force of Social Change in an Arab Village Bishmizzini: Afif Tannous Living Where: Deceased - lived in Virginia, USA Source: Rural Sociology, 7:62-74. Description: A study of emigration as a cause of social change. Salim Sarkis-Marriage of Spiridon JehaTitle: لقلوب المتحدة في الولايات المتحدة, or al-Qulub al-mutahidah fi al-wilayat al-mutahidah [United Hearts in the United States] Bishmizzini: Spiridon J. Jeha Author (if not the Bishmizzini): Salim Shahin Sarkis Living Where: Deceased - lived in Pittsburgh, PA, USA Description: It is "the history of Spiridon J. Jeha (Spiridon Hanna NYN Jiha) from Syria [what is now Bishmizzine, Lebanon] and Elizabeth B. Phillips…persecution and difficulties before their marriage from 1889 to 1904. Patricia Nabti - GenderTitle: Gendered Sources in Ethnohistorical Research: The Study of Emigration from a Lebanese Village Bishmizzini: Patricia Mihaly Nabti Author (if not the Bishmizzini): Wife of Michel Georges Nabti Living Where: Bishmizzine Source: Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies, ed Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, Syracuse University Press. Description: Study of the difficulties of studying women in research undertaken on Bishmizzine due to limited records mentioning their names. تاريخ الكورة وبشمزينTitle: حديث تاريخي عن الكورة وبشمزين Bishmizzini: مخائيل اسحق نجار Living Where: فقيد - بشمزين Source: شفيق جحا - التعليمTitle: تاريخ التغليم والمدارس في بشمزين ١٨٥٠-١٩٥١ Living Where: فقيد - بشمزين وبيروت Source: بيروت عاصمة عالمية للكتاب Michel Jiha - ThesisTitle: Der Arabische Dialekt von Bismizzin Living Where: Deceased - Bishmizzine/Beirut Source: In Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden. Description: Book in German about the Arabic dialect of Bishmizzine. Recycling program /برنامج إعادة التدويرDescription: https://www.facebook.com/CSPLebanon/videos/5037907802957038 Video about the recycling program of Bishmizzine for Bishmizzine and surrounding villages. Patricia Nabti was born in Santa Rosa, California, USA. Although she received the majority of her early education in the United States, she spent one year as a high school exchange student in Egypt through American Field Service (AFS). She is also the former Coordinator of the Arab Initiative to Foster a Culture of Volunteering. Nabti will be working on the genealogy of the people of Bishmizzine to a) update previously collected information through reviewing government records and interviewing people in the village; b) keying in the data into modern genealogical software; and c) conduct advanced analysis of kinship, patterns of migration and return, and the extent that those in the Lebanese diaspora keep contact with Lebanon and maintain their official registration and citizenship.
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