Lebanon Support
cordially invites you to a round table discussion on:
Donor policies and local actors: complementarity or dependency? Women’s organisations in Lebanon and their relationships with international donors.
Presentation by Lebanon Support’s consultant, Dalya Mitri.
With discussants:Sara Abou Ghazalis a Palestinian-Lebanese writer who mostly works on feminist knowledge production. She is part of the collective Sawt Al Niswa.
Stine Hornis the Deputy Head of Mission, Norwegian Embassy in Lebanon.
Charbel Maydaais the director of Mosaic organisation.
Women organisations are generally...
In 2000, the law of rights of people with disabilities 220/ 2000 was issued in the Official newspaper. This law came after many struggles and efforts devoted by the people with disabilities, and it was a dream of ours and theirs. Everyone believed that once this law is ratified our problems then would be solved, but this law needed implementation practices in order for it to be taken into action. And once more we phased yet another struggle, in order to reach the application of the law, which does not meet the minimum rights of people with disabilities.
After fifteen years of the issuance...
The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support
Cordially invite you to a talk on:
Trajectories of young Arab and European Islamists: the inevitable jihadist radicalisation?
By:
Mr Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
is a political and social scientist working on contemporary International Relations, the Islamic World, Political Islam and Salafist currents. He completed his PhD in Sciences Po Paris in November 2011. His dissertation, “Beyond Discourse, Salafism in France, Socialization or Rupture of a Social Phenomenon?”, is an analysis of the emergence of a new face of Islam in France...
برعاية الاستاذ الدكتور سعيد ادم مدير كلية الاداب والعلوم الانسانية وضمن فعالياته للذكرى السابعة والستين للنكبة الفلسطينية يدعوكم النادي الثقافي الفلسطيني العربي-قطاع الجامعيين لحضور اليوم الفلسطيني الثامن عشر في الجامعة اللبنانية- القبة.
يتخلل اليوم صور فاسطينية، معارض، طعام فلسطيني ،تطريز، حنة ، صاج، وينتهي اليوم بحفل وطني لفرقة جبل الزيتون للغناء الوطني التابعة للنادي وذلك عند الساعة الثانية بعد الظهر
Lebanon Support
Cordially invites you to a round table discussion on:
Local actors versus global humanitarian interventions: the case of Samidoun during the July war on Lebanon.
A to-be-published case study prepared by Lebanon Support, with discussants:
Dr Karam Karam
is a political scientist. He holds a PhD from l'Institut d’Études politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, France. He has written several books and papers on civil society and political parties in Lebanon. He served as the head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies for several years and is currently the Head of Research at the Common...
A round table with Anna Fernando, Nadim Houry, Nisreen Kaj, Andrea Salvini, Reina Sarkis
Identity is always a question of representation, invention, framing or de-framing the familiar and the foreign, this inside of a time frame also.Stuart Hall pressed the fact that what is held as strictly British – the tea drinking ritual – is in fact only made possible through the other, geographically, economically and socially, since the tea plantation has only existed elsewhere in India, Ceylon or China. Hall himself was coming from Jamaica. To him, the British identity could only be constructed, or say...
A jury of respected professionals has the daunting task of selecting prize-winning photographs from over 650 submissions of more than 100 university students for Besme Photo Contest. . Award-winners will be announced on 14 April 2015 at Riviera Hotel with great opening ceremony of Besme Group under the auspices of His Excellency, Minister of Social Affairs, Mr.Rashid Derbas and in the presence of Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon, His Excellency Mr. Suleyman Inan Ozyildiz. The Head of the Jury is Mr.Jamal Saidi, Honorary President of the Lebanese Union of Photographers and chief photographer at...
"Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"Be numerous to join us under the Fouad Chehab bridge on Monday 13th of April 2015 starting 1pm, so we can all complete the sentence:"Before I die I want Lebanon to..."There is still hope for this country!This call has been launched by the students of Notre-Dame de Jamhour, in collaboration with five NGOs: Live Love Beirut, Offre Joie, Lezem, The Third Voice for Lebanon (3VLebanon) and Sakker el Dekkene!!We expect all of you to show up and be the first to start building your country's history, a new history...
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) recommends the following event which is organized by CoVisionMENA (important note: This is not an FES event!):
Lebanon and the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are facing huge humanitarian challenges – the support of many organisations and helpers is urgently needed. Thank you for your most valuable contribution!
But having to deal with the fates and stories of many desperate in addition to the challenges of overcoming cultural barriers, working in multidisciplinary teams and negotiating with donors can be very draining for the...
The AMIDEAST Entrepreneur Institute’s next “Start Your Own Business” workshop will start on Wednesday, April 1.
Details: 15 weekly in-class sessions of 3 hours each, complemented by an online platform and materials, participant workbook, video resources, and exercises.
Sessions will be held every Wednesday night from 6 – 9 pm April 1 – July 8.
The workshop is facilitated by a successful local business owner whose expertise is business and financial planning.
Local successful entrepreneurs and subject matter experts who want to help you succeed will be available to answer questions and...
