Events

Photo Exhibition inspired by the daily life in Ersal captured by the Lebanese and Syrian Youth. 
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معرض صور مستوحى من الحياة اليومية في عرسال بعيون شباب لبنانيين و سوريين

Opening Event: Thursday 30th of November at 1:00 pm
Exhibition lasts till Saturday 2nd of December 11:00 am

Seats are limited !!  Kindly reserve your place by filling out this form. The event will present an overview of the work of World Merit Lebanon and will showcase our attempt to raise awareness on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The panel will start with an introduction of the general work of World Merit Lebanon and will give you a better understanding of the framework civil society organizations is working within. 6 SPEAKERS from 6 DIFFERENT NGOs will try to explain their approach to solving the challenges occurring in Lebanon, throughout tackling one of the mentioned 17 SDGs...

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2017 Time: 04:30 pm till 06:00 pm Location: Adnan Kassar School of Business Building, Room 903, Lebanese American University-Beirut Campus Humanitarianism in a different key? Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises.    Contemporary refugee movements have increased self-reflection among humanitarian actors operating in ‘non-traditional’ environments in urban contexts, in Europe, along routes over land and sea, and on borders and in borderlands. Current refugee movements add to an increasing number of refugees who are stuck in long-term situations of...

"Tens of Thousands” is an exhibition curated by Amnesty International’s Beirut Regional Office marking the International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August. This exhibition aims to shed light on the issue of the disappeared and the missing inside Syria through emblematic cases of Syrian individuals arbitrarily detained and abducted for exercising peaceful human rights activities. The individuals whose stories are featured are peaceful activists, human rights defenders, lawyers and humanitarian workers. The exhibition features items left behind by these disappeared individuals and are now a...

Lebanon Support and Institut Français du Proche-Orient Cordially invite you to a talk on: Lebanon Facing Arab Uprisings. Constraints and Adaptation. While the neighbouring countries have been in flux since 2011 with popular movements taking to the streets of various Arab cities and crises breaking out in others, Lebanon has managed to adapt to the many challenges brought about by regional political crises. This talk will revolve around the book “Lebanon Facing Arab Uprisings. Constraints and Adaptation” which explores the impact of the Arab uprisings of 2011 on Lebanese politics and society...

forumZFD and the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) in collaboration with the Barbir Hospital cordially invite you to the exhibition “Sites of Commemoration in Lebanon: Towards a better understanding of the past”. The exhibition will take place on Saturday, 29 April, 2017 from 11am to 2pm at the Barbir Hospital building, Mazraa-Mathaf road, Beirut. Please join us for the opening ceremony from 11 to 11:30 am, followed by a walk through students’ displays. The exhibition extends till 2pm on the same day. The exhibition is part of an innovative project on the culture of commemorating the...

Art may be political. But art is not at the service of politics. Art participates actively in the daily political discourse and, of course, in the political developments of its time. The respective spectrum ranges from (picture) commentaries to critical or ironic productions and even interventions. Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" for example made history as a stern signal against war. Joseph Beuys always intermingled with contemporary political discourse, also in an artistic way. And at the latest since the Arab Spring, "Street Art" has once again become more political and presents a serious...

Lebanon SupportCordially invites you to a talk on:"Lebanese, refugee, and migrant women in Lebanon: From sociopolitical marginality to turnaround strategies" While women’s issues and rights have been at the forefront of public and civil society debate, academic, and activist publications, women’s inequalities and the discrimination women face in Lebanon have been notably undermined, whether as citizens, refugees, or migrants.This talk will address the experiences of women in Lebanon, including refugees, workers, and migrants, providing gender-based analyses of the various forms of engagement...

Lebanon Support Cordially invites you to a talk on: The Electoral Law and Process in Lebanon Within the current debate on electoral reform in Lebanon, a proportional or mixed law – which had been a demand by civil society in Lebanon – is for the first time seriously taken into consideration. This talk will address the different dimensions of the discussion on the reform of the Lebanese parliamentary electoral law, and will look into the necessary measures to ensure democratic elections, the role of civil society and the impact of its past and current mobilisations on the process of electoral...