Saint Joseph University’s Ethics Department & The Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine are pleased to invite you to a conference on “Homosexuality seen by professionals” at Amphitheater C at USJ’s Faculty of Medicine. Moderators: Father Michel SCHEUER and Dr Sami RICHA
1. Interviewing techniques when working with LGBT people – Dr Omar FATTAL (Psychiatrist – USA, Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health - LebMASH)
2. Evolution of the perception of homosexuality by the medical profession – Dr. Hala KERBAGE (Psychiatrist – Hôtel-Dieu de France)
3. Homosexuality beyond...
The United Nations in the Arab World Program & The Human Rights Research Project coridally invite you to a lecture by Mr. John Pace.
John Pace is an international civil servant of long standing in the United Nations. He served as Secretary to the Commission on Human Rights from 1978 to 1994, and was the Coordinator of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.
He has headed the Special Procedures and Technical Cooperation Programmes and has led fact-finding missions for the Commission in several countries. He was Chief of the Human Rights Component of the UN Mission in Iraq, and...
New Visions for Refugee Education in the Middle East
22,23,24 May 2014
Jordan
The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) in collaboration with UNESCO, are pleased to invite you to participate in the its forthcoming conference on “New Visions for Refugee Education in the Middle East”. This event aims to bring together practitioners, researchers, funders, and policymakers from national, regional and international NGOs, UN agencies, government agencies, Ministries of Education, teachers unions, and academic institutions to present and discuss their research or work on education of the refugees.
The...
The Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB
Cordially invites you to a Regional Conference
Building the Case for Sustainable Transportation in the Arab World
May 21, 2014 | 9am-6pmIssam Fares Institute (Green Oval) - Auditorium
Current Arab transportation systems have a significant impact on national energy and transportation policies and on the daily lives of people. This regional conference will shed light on sustainable transportation policies in the Arab world; and the resulting,economic...
The Refugee Research and Policy in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut cordially invites you to a Policy Forum that aims to address the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Lebanon.
The Syrian refugee crisis has led to social and economic devastation far beyond Syria – more specifically, in Lebanon. The impact on host communities and the country at large has been extensive, and the severity of the situation is immense. Recognizing the obligation and responsibility to assist in addressing this...
Institut français du Proche-Orient
Département des études contemporaines
Cycle : « Liban, quel état, pour quelle(s) citoyenneté(s) ? »
« Luttes sociales au Liban :
au-delà du clientélisme, du confessionnalisme et du sécuritarisme ? »
Avec la participation de :
Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi, docteur en sciences politiques, chercheur associée à l’Ifpo
et co-animatrice de l’ONG Lebanon Support
Leah Boukhater, doctorante à la SOAS, University of London
Michele Scala, stagiaire Ifpo, auteur d’une enquête sur le conflit social « Spinneys »
Conférence en langue française
Mardi 6 mai 2014 de 18h à...
Due to the lack of appropriate public space, Beirut dwellers lay claim today to a number of open areas in the city, the uses of which are akin to ‘public’ spaces – they are accessed freely and allow for an unconfined range of social activities.
This lecture advocates learning from the public by observing several left- over spaces in the city, in order to understand them as public, multicultural, socially just, and open. By focusing on the seafront area of Dalieh in Rawche, the lecture attempts to abandon the modern notion of public space and open new possibilities for understanding public...
