The Centre for Lebanese Studies is proud to announce this call for papers to be published in a special issue of the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) with guest editors Maha Shuayb, Mai Abu Moghli and Jafia Camara and under the title: Lifelong learning in emergencies: Pushing the epistemological boundaries We invite academics and practitioners in the field…
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“Right Where We Belong”: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education A book discussion By Prof. Sarah Dryden-Peterson Moderated by Centre Lebanese Studies Director, Dr. Maha Shuayb The webinar was held on November 3, 2022. For more info: About the book: In Right Where We Belong, Sarah Dryden-Peterson discovers that, where…
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26 March 2022 Virtual Conference Overview of the Conference This conference engages with curriculum reform in the region with a social justice-oriented approach. This conference is part of CLS’s continued efforts to promote a dialogue on education, curriculum reform and social justice. The Curriculum Reform conference 2022 builds on the results of the CLS’s…
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CLS believes in co-creative spaces where educators can discuss, produce knowledge, and create strategies for change. The “Educators’ Hub for Expression and Change”, in collaboration with The Asfari Foundation, is an open platform for educators to raise their voices, to build their own education vision, and promote dialogue about the current challenges and difficulties they…
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Institute for Migration Studies, both at the Lebanese American University uncovered the 3 years research insights “From Education to Employment: Youth Trajectories in Jordan and Lebanon in the Context of Protracted Displacement”. The virtual panel explored some reflections from Jordan and Lebanon about the quality of education, education dropout rate, employability attainment, and the…
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Ethnographic research within migrant communities living in precarious conditions is mainly conducted by researchers from the Global North, or affiliated to research institutions located in the Global North. This raises additional and specific methodological challenges in terms of positionality and research ethics. These challenges manifest themselves in intertwined ways at various research stages, from the…
Read articleMohammad Hammoud, Maha Shuayb, and Ola AlSamhoury This report is funded by the Spencer Foundation Executive Summary This report examines school, teacher, parent, and student readiness and challenges for the new school academic year (2021-2022). It aims to probe the challenges and prospects of returning to in-person and online schooling and the possible solutions…
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Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 31 October 2021
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CLS partners with international universities to mobilize understanding and boost civil responses to refugee crises. Back in 1648, a series of peace treaties ended an era of wars in Europe – which historians came to identify as the beginning of the modern system of sovereign states. However, a result of the foundation of those states,…
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About the study In 2018, CLS was awarded the prestigious Lyle Spencer grant of 951,519 USD, to conduct a comparative and longitudinal study of refugee education. The study, “My future five years from now” examines and contrasts education programs and practices for refugees in Australia, Lebanon and Turkey over a five-year period (2018-2023). These countries offer…
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Four staff members of the Centre for Lebanese Studies and one independent researcher attended a week long training on Regional Forced Migration at Moi University in Nairobi, Kenya during August 2019, organized by the Peace Institute. The training was an intensive introduction to refugee and forced displacement issues to a select group of scholars, practitioners…
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CLS launches an interdisciplinary study on refugee education and employment, and the links between the two. The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) at LAU is not new to bringing the plight of refugee and underprivileged populations to the forefront of academic research in hope of understanding and producing more educated strategies for addressing the crisis. Most recently,…
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The Disability Hub is an initiative launched by CLS in partnership with Oxford Brookes University. The main objective of the Hub is to establish a research and advocacy group to advance the field of disability studies in the Middle East/MENA.
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“When I grow up, I want to be a doctor,” scribbled 13-year old Roqaya on a whiteboard next to the Safadi Fine Arts Building. In another context, this would not have been as significant since international law – which stipulates that all children have a legal right to free and compulsory primary education, and access…
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LAU’s Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) and the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Institute for International and Comparative Education (IICE) have been jointly awarded a $461,981 grant from the Dubai Cares Evidence for Education in Emergencies (E-Cubed) Research Envelope. The title of the project is Promising Partnership Models for Education in Emergencies: A Global-Local Analysis. It aims to…
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Event Details Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 9am – 3:30pm Dahrendorf room, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford To register, please contact [email protected] Programme (PDF) | Concept Note (PDF) Workshop Programme
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) is offering support for applications to be an Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College for the 2016-2017 academic year. Those wishing to apply for support should be scholars of Lebanon with an established record of academic excellence, normally holding the Ph.D. or equivalent. Current students are not eligible to…
Read articleThe Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, the Center for Applied Research in Education at Notre Dame University-Louaize, and the Centre for Lebanese Studies has the pleasure of inviting you…
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) organized a round table on the first of December 2014 to discuss the results of its recent research entitled “Widening Access to Quality Education for Syrian Refugees: The Role of Private and NGO Sectors in Lebanon”. The round table brought together representatives of Lebanese and Syrian schools that provide…
Read article نظم مركز الدراسات اللبنانية طاولة مستديرة لمناقشة نتائج الدراسة التي اجراها حول دور القطاع الاهلي والخاص في تأمين فرص تعليم للاطفال السوريين في لبنان والبحث في نوعية البرامج التي يوفرها القطاعين لهذه الشريحة التي لا يزال معظمها غير قادر على الحصول على فرصة للتعليم في لبنان. ولقد جمعت الطاولة ممثلين عن مدارس لبنانية وسورية توفر…
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عمان، 25 حزيران 2014– كانت الطرق المبتكرة لتلبية الحاجات التعليمية المتزايدة لأطفال اللاجئين السوريين هي محور النقاشات التي دارت في مؤتمر عمان الأسبوع الماضي، والذي نُظم بالتعاون ما بين مركز الدراسات اللبنانية، واليونيسيف، والمفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين واليونيسكو. جمع المؤتمر ما بين الخبراء في مجال التعليم والمسؤولين الحكوميين من سوريا، ولبنان، والأردن، وتركيا، والعراق، ومصر، وممثلين…
Read article Amman, June 25 2014: Innovative ways of meeting the rising educational needs of Syrian refugee children were at the centre of a three day Conference in Amman last week, organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), UNICEF, UNHCR and UNESCO. The Conference brought together education specialists and government officials from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,…
Read articleThe Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Alexandria Trust are pleased to invite you to a dinner talk and interactive discussion on Thursday 10 July 2014 at 7:30 pm with Ambassador Frances Guy entitled: “Challenges in the Arab World: Time to Bring Education Back to Centre Stage”
Read articleThe Lebanese Association for History, EUROCLIO, and Notre Dame University In collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East cordially invites you to a workshop Towards a responsible and disciplinary approach to history education in the Mediterranean Region – Empowering educators to use multi-perspective approaches and historical thinking…
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American University of Beirut Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies Centre for Lebanese Studies Cordially Invite you to the Tuesday 18 March Starting at 18:00 pm Hamra Square- Ground Floor-Below Regusto Resto Topic of the month: Foreign workers in Lebanon: political and social implications Discussion initiated in Arabic by Elisabeth Longuenesse Sociologist, CNRS…
Read articleEugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he…
Read articleThe Demobilisation of the Lebanese Militias Elizabeth Picard/ ISBN 1 870552 64 4 The Waters of the Litani in Regional Context John Kolars and Thomas Naff/ ISBN 1 870552 19 9 The Reconstruction of Beirut Oussama Kabbani/ ISBN 1 870552 34 2 The Questions of South Lebanon Fida Nasrallah/ ISBN 1 870552 39 3 The Document of National Understanding:…
Read articleRethinking Education for Social Cohesion – Edited by Maha Shuayb Breaking the Cycle – Civil wars in Lebanon – Edited by Youssef M Choueiri / ISBN 10:1905299532 – ISBN 13: 9781905299539 Distant Relations – Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years – Edited by H.E. Chehabi and Hassan Mneimneh / ISBN 9781860645617 Lebanon and Arabism, 1936-1945 –…
Read articleWhilst a fellow at the Centre for Lebanese Studies Dr. Sami Hermez was involved in the following works: The Anthropology of Violence: ‘In the Meanwhile: Living Everyday in Anticipation of War in Lebanon’ – Dr. Sami Hermez The project examines how a constant anticipation of political violence in Lebanon has continued to impact the lives…
Read articleCenter for Lebanese Studies and Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (AUB) cordially invite you to the book launch of Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion: International Case Studies Editor: Maha Shuayb (2012) Palgrave Macmillan Including a panel and open discussion with Maha Shuayb,Dina Kiwan & Mark Farha…
Read articleNew Publication. Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion: International Case Studies. Editor: Maha Shuayb. Special launch price, order now and pay half price – £ 27.50 until February 2013. To order your copy at this special price, visit www.palgrave.com and quote discount code WSOCIAL2012a, or email order to [email protected] Alternatively use the PDF Order Form to…
Read article20 October 2012 College Hall, Auditorium B American University of Beirut Time: 8.30am – 2.30pm The Centre for Lebanese Studies, at St Antony’s College, Oxford University and the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, cordially invite you to attend a…
Read articleThis book offers a critical analysis of the theories underpinning the current approaches and practices of social cohesion. The contributions examine the ethics and policy making of social cohesion, critiquing the nationalistic and economic driven objectives which dominate the field to propose a multi-dimensional approach underpinned by social justice and care. Exploring the challenges…
Read articleIn 2009 the Centre launched a project aimed at piloting the impact of adopting a whole school approach to social cohesion and citizenship education on young people’s political and civic attitudes. In Lebanon, the current and most predominant approach to citizenship education relies on teaching civics one hour per week. However, research showed that this…
Read articleProject Overview A Whole School Approach to Active Citizenship Education and Social Cohesion The project aims to support schools in promoting active citizenship, and social cohesion through a sustainable and holistic educational programme that emphasizes critical pedagogies, democratic practices at school, and strong school/community relationships. This educational programme is proposed as an alternative to the…
Read articleOn ‘Healing the wounds of history’. The CLS is currently planning an international conference entitled ‘Healing the Wounds of History: Addressing Roots of Violence’ to be held on 11-13 November 2011 in Byblos, Lebanon. A collaboration between the CLS, the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace and the Lebanese American University. Please refer to the Conference…
Read articleFeatures updates about the recent workshop and the research team at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. Please refer to the Centre for Lebanese Studies Newsletter.
Read articleSocial and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon May 20, 2011 Introductions and Welcome Remarks: George Asseily, Centre for Lebanese Studies; Luc Borot, Maison Francaise d’Oxford Lebanese Political Parties and the Politics of Sectarianism Bernard Rougier Syria and Sunni Lebanon After 2005: Stakes and…
Read articleOn Social and Political Change in Lebanon. ‘Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon’, One-day workshop. 10:30am to 6pm, organized by CLS fellow Sami Hermez – St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Please refer to the Conference Programme.
Read articleNadim 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…
Read articleCLS 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’.
Read articleThe 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.…
Read articlePart 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…
Read articleDr. 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,…
Read articleRami’s appointment in 2005 as the Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut follows a long career in journalism in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and Lebanon where he still serves as editor at large of the Beirut- based Daily Star newspaper. His…
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