Background: Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) is a program by the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) launched in November 2011 to help healing the unresolved, deeper roots of violence unconsciously activated in the present from previous generations. The challenges faced by Lebanon and the region are self-evident where cycles of violence have played out repeatedly…
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A program hosted by NC State’s Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies is transforming the way Lebanese teachers educate students about their country’s history. The program, a collaboration with the Lebanese Association for History, brought teachers to campus last summer to learn about the latest scholarship on Lebanon and to master new, innovative tools to develop public history.…
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A two-week workshop from July 20 till August 03, 2019 at North Carolina State University entitled “History Education and the Use of Archives”. The workshop is followed by an educational exhibition in Lebanon during summer 2020. ONLINE APPLICATION DOWNLOAD APPLICATION
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The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University invites you to participate in a training course that includes three workshops organized by history teachers in Lebanon which is part of the Educational Training Program for the Academic Year 2018-2019. The training course is funded by…
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Background: Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) is a program by the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) launched in November 2011 to help healing the unresolved, deeper roots of violence unconsciously activated in the present from previous generations. The challenges faced by Lebanon and the region are self-evident where cycles of violence have played out repeatedly…
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The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University is organising a series of workshops divided into 3 modules entitled: “ICT (Information Communication and Technology), E-Learning and Digital Citizenship Workshop: How can History Teachers Use Technology in their Classrooms?”. This project is funded by the British…
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The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University celebrated the closing ceremony for “How to Make our Students Young Historians?” program on the 5th of September 2018 at Crowne Plaza Beirut . This program was funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Lebanon. This…
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University in collaboration with The Lebanese Association for History hosted a four-day training workshop between August 27 and 31, 2018 that was full of teamwork and fruitful interaction within the educational development program “Enhancing the Skills of History Teachers in Lebanon”. The program is considered as…
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Healing the Wounds of History celebrated the Day of the Annunciation on the 9th of April, 2018. For many years, we have celebrated the Annunciation Day with the “Together around our Lady Mary” in the Garden of the Forgiveness outside the Nourieh Chapel. A Chapel to remind us of the miracles of The Virgin Mary in…
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University in collaboration with Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina University organized a workshop on ” Using Archives in Teaching the History of the Lebanese Diaspora” on Saturday March 03, 2018 at the Lebanese American University. The workshop was facilitated by…
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The Lebanese Association for History (LAH) and the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) conducted three workshops for CERD as part of an exchange of expertise on January 25 and 26, 2018. This workshop was facilitated by Nayla Khodr Hamadeh, LAH President and Dr. Maha Shuayb, the Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies. The workshop…
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“Healing the Wounds of History” program conducted its first workshop for 2018 entitled “HWH Module 1: 2018”. Besides the regular module one which took place on the 16th , 17th, 18th of March in the silk Museum Bsous, HWH have trained a group of school counselors and health counselors from the Ministry of Education and…
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The Power of Language, Small Shifts in Language, Big Shifts in Behavior by Alexandra Asseily Date: Saturday October 14, 2017 Time: 18:00- 19:30 Location: Beit Beirut The Role of Language in Peace Building Language is a potent force for positive change – from divisive authoritarian, bullying language to a cohesive, whole brain positive authority language.…
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The HWH Training Program Module 3, is the last part of 3 modules of training in Healing the Wounds of History. Date: November 17 till 19, 2017 Time: 09:00 am till 05:00 pm Location: Silk Museum, Bsous The objective is to create a community of change agents, field workers and practitioners, who, after appropriate…
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The challenges faced by Lebanon and the region are self-evident. Cycles of violence have played out repeatedly through the ages. All of this is well documented, but what is less obvious, is how the battles of the past can stay dormant within us from generation to generation, flaring up in moments of perceived threat. And…
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“Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity” is the workshop that was organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in collaboration with the Lebanese Association for History. The workshop was facilitated by Bassel Akar, Maha Shuayb, Jihane Francis, and Amira Al Hariri. For two full days, participants experimented with the disciplinary approach…
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Module III, Year 3: Facilitated by Matthew Pruen and Alexandra Asseily Date: 18, 19, 20 November 2016 Location: Silk Musuem, Bsous The success of module III of year Three of the Healing the Wounds of History workshops conducted by Alexandra Asseily, Mathew Pruen, and assisted by Mirvat Bakkour, is a sign that we have a firm foothold…
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The project is part of a series of programs and activities organized by CLS to transform the teaching of history in Lebanon from a single narrative approach to a disciplinary one. Learning history as a discipline can foster dialogue, collaboration, informed decision-making and other necessary competencies for social cohesion, democracy and active citizenship. …
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies in collaboration with the Lebanese Association for History organized a training program entitled “How to Develop Historical Thinking”. The program represented a second phase of “Developing History Teachers Capacity to Foster Historical Thinking”, a project implemented in 2014 – 2015. The program was funded by the Embassy of the kingdom…
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November 2014 – September 2015 Within its commitment to support history teachers in Lebanon, the Center for Lebanese Studies, the Lebanese Association for History, Notre-Dame University-Louaize, and Forum for Civil Peace ZFD, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands organized an intensive training program that introduced a disciplinary approach to history…
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تطلق الهيئة اللبنانية للتاريخ مشروعها الشامل “تطوير قدرة معلّمي التاريخ على تنمية التفكير التاريخي” الذي سيجري على امتداد السنة الدراسية 2014 – 2015. يمنح هذا البرنامج التدريبي المكثّف الفرصة لـ 18 من معلّمي ومعلّمات التاريخ لتعلّم نظريات وطرائق تعليم التاريخ كمجال معرفي وتطبيقها وتطويرها. يقدّم البرنامج نهجا جديدا في بيداغوجيا التاريخ في لبنان من خلال…
Read articleThe Lebanese Association for History in association with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and the Centre for Lebanese Studies cordially invites you to a two day workshop entitled “What Does it Mean to ‘Do’ History? An introduction to historical enquiry and secondary concepts, with focus on continuity and change” December 20…
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As a follow up of the workshop and a previous conference on history education organized by the Lebanese Association for Education Studies (LAES), both CLS and LAES facilitated meetings and discussions among a group of history teachers in public and private schools in Lebanon to develop a Lebanese Association for History Educators. The group meets…
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One of the few things that the majority of Lebanese from various spectrums of life seem to agree on is the urgency to develop a common History textbook, which will somehow unite the nation and solve the problem of confessionalism. There appears to be a conventional wisdom even amongst educationalists and intellectuals that by learning…
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The education reforms and policies which followed since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990 emphasized the role of education in promoting social cohesion. The Taif Agreement (1989) which put an end to the civil war proposed education as a major means for promoting social cohesion. Consequently the main objective of the curriculum…
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