groups who always want to harm the Sunni population. It was but the ridiculous… Secular Club told me have to work together to make a change And “we together”. this is what I want for my country, so I joined them and became a candidate for the elections. And this is what we have to do, we have to go and approach the students to show them how we think and what we do, because they just have some prejudices about us. Farah tells me her experience during pre-elections day: I still remember during elections, last year my friend was voting for me and before we enter to vote all parties approach us at the door. She is from a specific place in Lebanon. A girl who is from the same environment (confession) came to her and talked to her. But I know that she is my friend she will vote for me. She got in, she voted for me and we went down. Then she was like you “Farah… know I feel I asked why. She said for you but I guess my parents guilty”. “I voted would be It is because she voted for me. She knows that I am more mad”. qualified and I would work for everybody, but she support the one from her didn’t religious group. I was it work that way, you have to feel like: “no doesn’t don’t guilty, on the contrary, you have to feel good about it”. She continued in relation to this incident saying: It is a little bit hard but when they (students) get exposed to different ideas, they will at least think about it and then maybe they will be less thinking in the same sectarian way. Analysis The bottom line for this discussion forms two main arguments for my thesis. The first argument is that by attaching a set of values and behaviors to the notion of secularity, the members of the Secular Club employ this notion to form a new secular habitus among youth in the Lebanese society and politics in response to political and social sectarianism. The second argument is that
groups who always want to harm the Sunni population. It was ridiculous… but the Secular Club told me “we have to work together to make a change together”. And this is what I want for my country, so I joined them and became a candidate for the elections. And this is what we have to do, we have to go and approach the students to show them how we think and what we do, because they just have some prejudices about us. Farah tells me her experience during pre-elections day: I still remember during elections, last year my friend was voting for me and before we enter to vote all parties approach us at the door. She is from a specific place in Lebanon. A girl who is from the same environment (confession) came to her and talked to her. But I know that she is my friend she will vote for me. She got in, she voted for me and we went down. Then she was like “Farah… you know I feel guilty”. I asked why. She said “I voted for you but I guess my parents would be mad”. It is because she voted for me. She knows that I am more qualified and I would work for everybody, but she didn’t support the one from her religious group. I was like: “no it doesn’t work that way, you don’t have to feel guilty, on the contrary, you have to feel good about it”. She continued in relation to this incident saying: It is a little bit hard but when they (students) get exposed to different ideas, they will at least think about it and then maybe they will be less thinking in the same sectarian way. Analysis The bottom line for this discussion forms two main arguments for my thesis. The first argument is that by attaching a set of values and behaviors to the notion of secularity, the members of the Secular Club employ this notion to form a new secular habitus among youth in the Lebanese society and politics in response to political and social sectarianism. The second argument is that
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