Events

You are cordially invited to attend an information session about our new volunteering programs at Balsam on June 30, 2015, from 5:00-6:00pm in Balsam's office. The volunteering programs focus on fundraising& event planning, community awareness campaigns,administrative stuff, social media management, posters design as well as patient assistance. Kindly confirm your attendance by emailing j.abiramia@balsam-lb.org . or calling 01-748574

The French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) and Lebanon Support, With the support of WAFAW, Cordially invite you to a talk on: Uprisings in the Arab world: the consecration of counterrevolutions? By:Frédéric Vairel,associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-author of Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe, PUM, 2014. With discussant:Mariam Younes, PhD candidate, University of Roskilde in Denmark Introduction by:Vincent Geisser, (IFPO/CNRS/WAFAW), “The revolution has just started” During the 2011 popular uprisings, the same thing did...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a talk on: Bordering the Middle East: concepts and challenges By:Daniel Meier,political scientist. He is a research fellow at CNRS, Grenoble, affiliated with the Euborderscapes programme. A former Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College in Oxford, he also taught at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His publications focus on Lebanese-Palestinian relationships, border issues, and politics in the Middle East. His forthcoming book is titled Shaping Lebanon’s Borderlands: Armed Resistance and International Intervention in South Lebanon (IB Tauris)...