Events

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...

Multiple cooking classes will be held starting February 25th until December 31st, 2016 at the S-miles Center. Cooking is a multi-sensory experience that engages children and adults in smelling, tasting, and feeling different textures. Working in the kitchen is simply something children enjoy! Nevertheless, they do not even realize how much they are learning because of how much fun they are having. Teaching kids to cook will help instill skills to last them a lifetime. Cooking is a great way to learn life skills and to acquire and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Social skills are a very important...

يتشرف المجلس العربي للموهوبين والمتفوقينوالجمعية اللبنانية للتنمية والتأهيلبدعوتكم لحضور ندوة بعنوان : من التعب العصبي إلى الكاروشي : أسباب ووقايةتُقدّم الندوة الدكتورة نعيمة بن يعقوبسفيرة المجلس العربي للموهوبين والمتفوقين في الجزائر المكان : تأهيل - مركزتوفيق طبارة, ط5, شارع طبارة, الظريف, بيروتالزمان : يوم السبت 4 حزيران 2016 من الساعة 10 حتى 1 ظهراللاعتذار او التأكيد يرجى الاتصال : 01/71/738059 Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/268401170178401/ 

Bazaar Karma takes place on Saturday 28 May & Sunday 29 May from 12:00 am to 8:00 pm at Zico House, 174 spears street, Sanayeh. At Bazaar Karma you will find clothes, toys, books, vinyls, appliances & furniture. Come shop for a cause at excellent prices, give a new life to products & help save a child. Karma is a NGO that aims to cover the treatment of kids with cancer or other severe diseases. All Bazaar proceeds will help covering medical costs.

Invitation for the closing event of the project "Better Together: A Youth-Led Approach to Peaceful Coexistence" The European Union and Search for Common Ground-Lebanon are delighted to invite you to attend the closing event of the project ‘Better Together: A Youth-Led Approach to Peaceful Coexistence’. The event will include the screening of a documentary which captures the journey of those involved in the project over the past year and will be followed by a panel discussion on the successes and challenges arising from the implementation of such projects in the Lebanese context. The...

Freedom is not self-evident. Not even in the Netherlands. Although the Netherlands has a long tradition in freedom and secularism, there was a need to found a secular Humanist organization. Seventy years ago the Dutch Humanists started as a non-religious life-stance organization in a very religious society. It was a plea for equality, free choice, and humanist moral standards. Seventy years later the Netherlands is one of the most secularized countries in the world. What does this do to society? Can humanism be the moral standard for a secular society worldwide? In this lecture I want to share...

  Bringing Vocational Education into Mainstream Schooling  The panel discussion will focus on the tenuous relationship between mainstream 'academic' schooling and vocational education at pre-tertiary level in Lebanon. Moderator: Dr. Anies Al-Hroub, Chairperson of the Department of Education, American University of Beirut Panelists: Mr. Ahmed Diab, Director General of Technical and Vocational Education in Lebanon Dr. Barend Vlaardingerbroek, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut Note: This lecture will be in English & Arabic with simultaneous interpretation

حضرة أعضاء "التحالف لإعداد وحشد التأييد لتقرير الإستعراض الدوري الشامل الخاص بسوريا"  AWSURAالكرام، حضرة الزملاء والزميلات في منظمات وجمعيات المجتمع المدني، المهتمة بدعم تقارير UPR خاصة بسوريا، الكرام تحية طيبة وبعد، مع إقتراب مهلة تقديم تقارير الإستعراض الدوري الشامل (الدورة الثانية لسوريا- الجلسة 26) لمنظمات المجتمع المدني على الإنتهاء، والتي تصادف في 24 آذار (مارس) 2016، تدعوكم اللجنة المشرفة على إعداد تقرير التحالف للقاء تشاوري لعرض مسودة التقرير ومناقشة التوصيات، على أمل أن نتمكن من إرسال مسودة التقرير (لأعضاء التحالف) قبل موعد اللقاء حيث أنه في مراحله الاخيرة v     سوف يعقد لقاء غازي...

بمناسبة الثامن من أذار يوم المرأة العالمي       يتشرف مركز الأطفال والفتوة بدعوتكم لحضورندوة حول:        وضع المرأة الفلسطينية في ظل المتغيرات الراهنة         تقدمها الأخت المناضلة سـمر العلمي          يتخلل اللقاء بعض الرقصات لأطفال المركز    وذلك يوم الثلاثاء 8 أذار 2016الساعة 3:00 بعد الظهر      في مركز الأطفال والفتوة- مخيم شاتيلا 

Public Lecture by  Professor Yang Jiemian President Emeritus, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies  Monday, March 7th, 2016, 5pm-7pm Issam Fares Institute, Conference Room, 4th floor - AUB (Green Oval) Where do contemporary Chinese diplomatic approaches and practices derive from, and what are the theoretical and historical sources behind its “independent foreign policy of peace"? And how to understand China’s current foreign policy strategy in the light of its founding theories? To what extent is China providing an alternative to the world superpowers conception of a new kind of...

I would like to draw your attention to an upcoming lecture by Dr. Joanne Liu, the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). It is in collaboration with MSF and it is taking place at the Issam Fares Institute Auditorium, this Friday 4 March, at 5.30pm. Further details can be found in the email announcement below and/or by clicking here for the event poster.   Dr. Liu’s talk, ‘Doctors on the Frontlines: Medical Humanitarian Challenges’, will focus on the challenges that MSF faces in its operations, and special attention will be given to its activities in this region, in addition...

Tickets are sale for 35000ll or 24 $  event includes ladies brunch, Christmas Carols, gifts, etc.. this event is to support Spring of life center for children at risk. for reservation please call: 70282503- 03763744! 

 forumZFD and the Center for Applied Research in Education at the Notre Dame University -Louaize are pleased to invite you to a public seminar entitled "The Power of Remembrance :memory and learning from the past in Lebanon". This event will take place on Tuesday November,24,2015 from 9:00 am till 11:00 am at the Friends Hall,Notre Dame University -Main Campus,Zouk Mosbeh.  The research team will present the main findings of their study which investigates the use of memory by political parties in Lebanon in th political and educational domains.

 forumZFD and the Center for Applied Research in Education at the Notre Dame University -Louaize are pleased to invite you to a public seminar entitled "The Power of Remembrance :Political Parties, memory and learning from the past in Lebanon". This event will take place on Tuesday November,24,2015 from 9:00 am till 11:00 am at the Friends Hall,Notre Dame University -Main Campus,Zouk Mosbeh.  The research team will present the main findings of their study which investigates the use of memory by political parties in Lebanon in the political and educational domains.

Karma Ngo Will be hosting a 48 hours nonstop garage sale at Zico House. Any item you buy will help a child in need ! ➡️ Bazaar Karma items : women clothing & accessories ; kids clothing, books & toys ; comics, books, vinyls, CDs, DVDs ; men's clothing ; home accessories & vintage items and our sweet stand selling our famous homemade lollipops, cakes and bio jam. Friday 13 November ▪️4 pm Dabkeh workshop for parents and kids by Marhebtein. Sat 14 November ▪️12 pm Bookbinding workshop with Zena Sabbagh. ▪️4pm documentary screening "when the war sank in" by Fadi Yeni Turk. ▪️6pm book signing...

تطلق حملة كتّر خيرك مشروع " كلنا بدنا نعيّد" في اسواق بيروت لتأمين معمول العيد للعائلات اللبنانية المستورة بعيداً عن الإصطفافات السياسية والمذهبيه, والجدير ذكره أن الحملة أقامت نفس المشروع في عيد الفطر السعيد وتمكنت من مساعجة 832 عائلة لبنانية مستورة في مختلف المناطق اللبنانية. سيتواجد فريق حملة كتّر خيرك في أسواق بيروت لمدة ثلاثة أيام (الجمعه والسبت والاحد-أي 18 و 19 و 20 أيلول الجاري) من الساعة الرابعة ظهراً حتى العاشرة مساء لإقامة عروض بهلوانية وترفيهيه لإستقطاب التبرعات المادية لتأمين معمول العيد. كما يمكنكم التبرع مادياً (ثمن الدزينة 10 الاف ليرة) في الصناديق المخصصه من 14 ايلول حتى 22...

"With you till the end" is a night walk organized by Balsam to advocate and raise awareness about palliative care in Lebanon. Palliative Care is a medical approach that improves the quality of life of patients with life-limiting illness as well as their families through prevention and relief of pain and suffering as well psychological and social support. - 6:00pm: Gather in front of Bain Militaire - Manara - 6:30pm: Walk towards Ain El Mrayse -7:00pm: Arrival - Area facing Mc Donald's At the arrival point we will - Release balloons with personal messages and light candles to honor those...

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)...

The Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) cordially invites you to The launching of: The Way Forward to Safeguard Water in Lebanon: National Water Integrity Risk Assessment Report With an opening statement byH.E. Arthur Nazarian,Minister of Energy and Water, Lebanon Follow link for agendahttps://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Documents/events/2014-2015/20150515_Water_Re…;