March 2011

‘Is Lebanon Reformable?’, Nadim Houry

UncategorizedMarch 28, 2011

Nadim Houry is Human Rights Watch’s senior researcher for Lebanon and Syria and the director of the Beirut office. His talk entitled ‘Is Lebanon Reformable?’. In the course of his work Nadim has documented violations of international humanitarian law during the July 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. He has also researched human rights violations…

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Notre Dame University, ‘Education in Lebanon: Toward More Sectarianism and Conflict? The Role of Faith and Secular Schools’, Talk by CLS fellow Dr. Maha Shuayb

UncategorizedMarch 28, 2011

CLS fellow at University of Cambridge, Dr Maha Shuayb, gave a talk at Notre Dame University on the 28th of March entitled ‘Education in Lebanon: Toward More Sectarianism and Conflict? The Role of Faith and Secular Schools’.

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History Education: a lesson from Lebanon and to Lebanon’, Presentation of the study

UncategorizedMarch 24, 2011

The CLS research team presented the findings of their study of history education in Lebanon. The research findings were presented at a conference organised by the Lebanese Association for Educational Research entitled ‘History Education: a lesson from Lebanon and to Lebanon’ which took place on the 24th and 25th of March in Rivera Hotel, Beirut.…

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Education for social cohesion project’ – Strategy Planning day

UncategorizedMarch 21, 2011

Part of the ‘Education for social cohesion project’, a strategy planning day took place on the 21st of March. The event aimed at designing a plan for addressing the main challenges encountered by teachers at a public school. The event was designed and delivered by the ‘extra-curricular committee’ at the school, headed by Ms Fatema…

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Was Beirut a Levantine City, and is it still?

UncategorizedMarch 1, 2011

Dr. Mansel, who made his reputation as a historian and authority on nineteenth century France, and later wrote two excellent works on Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire, has very recently published a highly acclaimed book entitled ‘Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean’ where the Levant is seen through the history of three key cities,…

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March 2011

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