01 NOV 2013 09:00 Symposium
“2nd regional symposium on modern cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa”
West Hall, AUB
The Modern Heritage Observatory
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01-02 NOV 2013 Conference
“Graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Education in Arab Universities: Quality and Added Value”
Beirut campus, LAU
organized by the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES) and the Arab Educational Information Network (SHAMAA)
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05 NOV 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Voyage aux confins du désert avec la traduction d’Al-Nihayat (Les Fins) d’Abdul Rahman Mounif”
Éric Gautier
BIEL
L’Ifpo au Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth
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06 NOV 2013 15:00 Lecture
“Renewable Energy Technologies – Biofuels and the Case of the Jatropha Curcas Plant”
M.SC. Ing. Nirza Fabiola Castro Gonzáles
Moderator: Professor Rami Zurayk
FAFS, AUB
The Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Sciences Program
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06 NOV 2013 17:00 Conférence
“Jeunesses arabes. Loisirs, cultures, politiques”
Myriam Catusse, Nicolas Dot Pouillard, Caecilia Pieri, Xavier Guignard, Marion Slitine
Modérateur : Mona Harb (AUB)
BIEL
L’Ifpo au Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth
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06 NOV 2013 18:00 Lecture
“Al-Farābī’s Art of Lawgiving”
Charles E. Butterworth (Professor, the University of Maryland)
Building 37, AUB
AMPL (The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature)
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07 NOV 2013 Lecture
“Ameen Rihani’s Visionary Support for Women a Century Ago”
Dr. Savoe Karam (Assistant Professor of English Literature at NDU)
Beirut Campus, BAU
The Faculty of Arts
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07 NOV 2013 15:30 Lecture
“Non-partisan Public Policy Research: An Institutional Experience in Lebanon”
Dr. Abdallah Bouhabib (Managing Director of the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon)
West Hall, AUB
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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07 NOV 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Les établissements des élites omeyyades en Palmyrène et au Proche-Orient”
Denis Genequand
BIEL
L’Ifpo au Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth
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08-09 NOV 2013 International Conference
“Deconstructing Arab Transitions: Regional Overview and Case Studies”
College Hall, AUB
Institute of Financial Economics
Speakers:
Ali Abdelgadir Ali (Doha Institute, Qatar)
Saoussen Ben Romdhane (University of la Manouba, Tunisia)
Mongi Boughzala (El Manar University, Tunisia)
Abdelwahab El Affendi (Westminster University, London)
Sarah El Ashmawy (the School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Ibrahim Elbadawi (Center for Global Development, Washington DC)
Atta El Battahani (University of Khartoum, Sudan)
Youssef El Khalil (American University of Beirut)
Noha El Mikawy (Ford Foundation, Cairo)
Atif Kubursi (McMaster University, Canada)
Samir Makdisi (American University of Beirut)
Mohamed Mohieddin (Menoufia University, Egypt)
Simon Neaime (American University of Beirut)
Raed Safadi (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris)
08 NOV
Session 1: Thematic and Cross-country Issues
Chair: A. Kubursi
“Understanding Democratic Transitions: A Cross Country Approach”
Speakers: I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi
“Stabilising Arab Democracies after the Uprisings”
Speaker: A. El Affendi
Discussants: Y. El khalil and N. El Mikawy
Session 2: Struggling Transitions
Chair: A. A. Ali
“Egypt Case Study”
Speakers: N. El Mikawy, M. Mohieddin and S. El Ashmawy
“Tunisia Case Study”
Speakers: M. Boughzala and S. Ben Romdhane
Discussant: I. Elbadawi
Session 3: Trapped or Halted Transitions
Chair: R. Safadi
“Lebanon Case Study”
Speakers: S. Makdisi and Y. El Khalil
“Kuwait Case Study”
Speakers: I. Elbadawi and A. Kubursi
Discussant: A. A. Ali
09 NOV
Session 4: Painful and Uncertain Transitions
Chair: N. El Mikawy
“Sudan Case Study”
Speakers: A. Ali and A. El Battahani
“Syria Case Study”
Speakers: R.Safadi and S.Neaime
Discussant: M. Mohieddin
Session 5: The Democratic Transition Volume
Chair: A. El Affendi
Speakers: I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi
Discussants: case study authors
General discussion
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11 NOV 2013 19:00 Lecture
“Amber in Lebanon”
Faculty of Administration and Business, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage
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12 NOV 2013 12:30 Lecture
“Thoughts on Formal and Conceptual Complexity”
George Procakis (architect, adjunct professor for Urban Design and Architecture at the Technical University of Crete)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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12 NOV 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Cent ans après : doit-on dire adieu au nationalisme arabe ?”
Maher Charif (Chercheur à l’Ifpo)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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13 NOV 2013 12:00 Lecture
“The Treacherous Road Towards a New Arab Social Contract”
Omar Razzaz (Chair of the Board of Trustees of the King Abdullah II Fund for Development, Chair of the Jordan Strategy Forum)
West Hall, AUB
IFI
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13 NOV 2013 16:00 Seminar
“Design, Synthesis and Application of Sensors for Biologically-Relevant Molecules”
Nina A. Esipenko (PhD Candidate, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, USA)
Chemistry Building, AUB
Chemistry Department
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13 NOV 2013 18:00 Lecture
“The U.S. War of Terror: How Contractors Profit from Interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Eavesdropping on Facebook and Google”
Pratap Chatterjee (executive director, CorpWatch in California)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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14 NOV 2013 Lecture
“The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World”
Prof. Seta Dadoyan
Haigazian University
On the occasion of the publication of her trilogy, “The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries, in 3 vols.”
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15 NOV 2013 13:00 Lecture
“Classified Memories: Trying To Try Terror Suspects Who Were Tortured by the CIA”
Lisa Hajjar (professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara)
Collage Hall, AUB
CASAR
This event is co-sponsored with IFI
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15 NOV 2013 17:30 Lecture
“Fayrouz (in Arabic)”
Elias Sahhab (journalist, music critic)
Collage Hall, AUB
The University for Seniors
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18-20 NOV 2013 Event
“Japan Festival”
The Center for Languages and Translation
The Cultural Committee at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Lebanese University
In collaboration with the Japanese Embassy in Lebanon
18 NOV
“Japanese Architecture, Chaos or Harmony?”
Dr. Hani Zheib (Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University)
“‘Read’ Japanese Art: Looking outside in”
Dr. Yoshinori Takakura (painter)
Martial Arts Demonstration, Ikebana and Origami Workshop, etc.
19 NOV
“Highlights on the translation of Arabic works to Japanese”
Dr. Massoud Daher
“Japanese Calligraphy”
Dr. Antoine Abi Aad
Round table: Business opportunities, etc.
20 NOV
Japanese Movie”Children who chase lost voices” directed by Makoto Shinkai subtitled in Arabic (116min)
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19 NOV 2013 13:00 Lecture
“The Dilemma of Human Rights In Lebanese Electoral Laws”
Elie Al Hindy (assistant professor, the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Notre Dame University)
West Hall, AUB
IFI
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19 NOV 2013 18:30 Conférence
“Le site phénico-punique de Carloforte (Sardaigne) : trois ans d’études et de recherches”
Wissam Khalil (Université libanaise)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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19-21 NOV 2013 Colloque International
“Explorer le temps au Liban et au Proche-Orient”
IFPO
Université de Balamand
Université de Tours-François Rabelais
Campus France (programme CEDRE)
AUF
19 NOV (salle de conférence de l’Institut français)
1re session <Les systèmes de datation>
Président de séance : Elie Dannaoui
“Les systèmes de datation dans les archives antiochiennes : le cas des monastères de Notre Dame de Balamand et du Prophète Elie à Shwayya (en arabe)”
Loulou Sayba‘a (Université de Balamand)
“La datation des manuscrits arabes du patriarcat d’Antioche (en arabe)”
Père Georges Berbari (Université de Balamand)
“La datation à travers les archives maronites de Bkerké (en arabe)”
Alexandre Abi Younès (Université libanaise)
2e session <Les objets de la mesure du temps>
Présidente de séance : Souad Slim
“Les cadrans solaires : principes de fonctionnement et exemples libanais”
Sœur Benoîte (chercheur indépendant)
“L’heure au Levant : horloges antiques et médiévales au Proche-Orient”
Patricia Antaki (Université Saint-Joseph)
“Le calendrier de l’église de Qabr Hiram. Iconographie et symbolisme”
Nada Helou (Université libanaise)
“Les calendriers des chrétiens orientaux : moyens et outils. L’Église Orthodoxe d’Antioche comme exemple (en arabe)”
Elie Dannaoui (Université de Balamand)
3e session <Le temps dans la production scripturaire religieuse (1re partie)>
Président de séance : Bruno Paoli
“Le temps à travers le livre des heures (en arabe)”
Père Hareth Ibrahim (Université de Balamand)
“La dialectique de l’unicité et de la dichotomie dans l’expression du temps : l’exemple du lectionnaire (Évangile liturgique) (en arabe)”
Père Lou’ay Hanna (Université de Balamand)
20 NOV (Université de Balamand, salle Jacobo)
3e session (suite) <Le temps dans la production scripturaire religieuse (2e partie)>
Président de séance : Bruno Paoli
“The Concept of Time in the Koran”
Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen, Germany)
“De la révolution à l’essor scientifique : Ali Shariati, islam et la pensée de la rupture des temps”
Josef Schovanec (EHESS, Paris)
4e session <Le temps dans les pratiques et les rituels>
Président de séance : As’ad Kattan
“Le temps de la justice aux premiers siècles de l’Islam”
Mathieu Tillier (Ifpo-Beyrouth)
“Temps cyclique et transmigration des âmes chez les Alaouites, entre doctrine savante et croyance populaire”
Bruno Paoli (Ifpo-Beyrouth)
“Temporalités traditionnelles et modernes au Liban au XIXe et au début du XXe siècle”
Souad Slim (Université de Balamand)
“D’un rituel à l’autre, d’une temporalité à l’autre : observations autour de pratiques dévotionnelles votives au Liban”
Nour Farra-Haddad (Université Saint-Joseph)
5e session <Temps et littérature>
Président de séance : Mathieu Tillier
“Laps de temps et d’espaces beyrouthins (lecture d’un Parfum de paradis d’Elias Khoury)”
Anna Madoeuf (EMAM-Université François-Rabelais de Tours)
“Le temps dans les proverbes populaires (en arabe)”
Jean Touma (Université libanaise)
“Le temps narratif dans la littérature (en arabe)”
Nidale Al-Amyouni Daccache (Lebanese American University)
“Le temps dans les chansons des frères Rahbani (en arabe)”
As’ad Kattan (Université de Munster)
21 NOV (Université de Balamand, salle Jacobo)
6e session <Temps, mémoires et rythmes de la ville>
Présidente de séance : Anna Madoeuf
“Mesurer le temps à Beyrouth au XIXe et au début du XXe siècle : un vecteur pour le progrès ?”
Sylvia Chiffoleau (Ifpo-Beyrouth)
“Temps du patrimoine, temps des projets urbains : télescopage et fusions à Jbeil, Saïda et Sour”
Maud Moussi (EMAM-Université François-Rabelais de Tours)
“La nuit et la guerre : restructuration du temps et des espaces de loisir dans le Beyrouth des années 1980″
Juan Mª Ruiz Herrero (Université Autónoma de Madrid)
“Reconstruire le temps après la guerre”
Zara Fournier (EMAM-Université François-Rabelais de Tours)
7e session <Temporalités sociales et du quotidien>
Présidente de séance : Sylvia Chiffoleau
“Temps du travail et temps de la vie”
Élisabeth Longuenesse (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
“La gestion du temps de travail dans la production industrielle (en arabe)”
Marlène Haydar Najjar (Université libanaise)
“La relation entre l’emploi du temps et la modernisation des programmes universitaires (en arabe)”
Jamileh Costi (Université libanaise)
“Les embouteillages routiers au Liban : un conflit de droit de passage ou un conflit de temps ? (en arabe)”
Maha Kayyal (Université libanaise)
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20-21 NOV Conference
“Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon: Authors, Texts, Trends, Traditions”
College Hall, AUB
Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
UNESCO World Philosophy Day 2013
20 NOV
Session 1
Moderator: TBA
“لماذا لا نفّكر فلسفيّا؟ نحو استراتيجيّة جيو-فلسفيّة”
Muta‛ Safadi (Arab Center for National Development)
“إلهيّات المعرفة بين النص والتأويل الفلسفي”
Shafik Jaradi (Sapiential Knowledge Institute)
“المصطلح الفلسفي بالعربيّة كمشكلة فلسفيّة”
Mousa Wehbe (Lebanese University)
Session 2
Moderator: Pascale Lahoud (Université Antonine)
“Le Dieu homme dans le cadre d’une philosophie des religions du Moyen-Orient”
Jad Hatem (Université Saint- Joseph)
“La Philosophie au rythme du sacré et du profane
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Marlène Kanaan (University of Balamand)
“Un autre visage de Kierkegaard?”
Nicole Hatem (Université Saint-Joseph)
Session 3
Moderator: Marlène Kanaan (University of Balamand)
“فلسفة العلوم منظورا إليها من لبنان القرن العشرين”
Pascale Lahoud (Université Antonine)
“الأسس الفلسفيّة التي تسوغ التعدديّة الكونيّة”
Mouchir Aoun (Lebanese University)
“الفلسفة والشعر وسؤال المعنى”
Zahida Darwiche-Jabbour (UNESCO)
Session 4
Moderator: George Kattoura (Lebanese University)
“طريق اليقين وعقلانيّة الخلاص: المتكلمون الأوائل ومهلة النظر”
Hussein Abdulsater (American University of Beirut)
“قول في المكان”
Nader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut)
21 NOV
Session 1
Moderator: Peter Bornedal (American University of Beirut)
“Cultivating Resource Philosophy: Lebanon’s Infertile Fertile Soil”
Edward Alam (Notre Dame University–Louaizé)
“The New Quest for Perpetual Peace: Philosophy between Affectivity and Rationality”
Chady Rahme (Notre Dame University–Louaizé)
“Philosophy in Lebanon: The Urgent Question of Origins”
Frank Darwiche (University of Balamand)
Session 2
Moderator: Frank Darwiche (University of Balamand)
“Max Weber et le média ”
George Kattoura (Lebanese University)
“Maître Eckhart : « Le Néant, c’était Dieu »”
Charbel El-Amm (Université Saint-Joseph)
Session 3
Moderator: Edward Alam (Notre Dame University–Louaizé)
“Ethical and unethical discourse: On Derrida’s difficulties with speech-acts”
Peter Bornedal (American University of Beirut)
“Antiphasis as a Homonym: Three significations of ‘contradiction’ in Aristotle’s philosophy ”
Robert Gallagher (American University of Beirut)
Session 4
Moderator: Robert Gallagher (American University of Beirut)
“The Critique of Subjectivism in Schelling’s Identity Philosophy”
Dustin McWherter (American University of Beirut)
“In the words of al-Kindī”
Hani Hassan (American University of Beirut)
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21 NOV 2013 – 19 APR 2014 Exhibition
“Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D. Corm (1896-1971)”
AUB Art Gallery
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21 NOV 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Concentric Symmetry in the Qur’an: Suras al-Fatiha, al-Rahman, and al-Nas”
Raymond Farrin (Associate Professor of Arabic, American University of Kuwait)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES
in collaboration with The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic
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23 NOV 2013 07:30 Conference
“Physicians, Torture and the Ethics of Medicines”
Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel
The Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine, AUB
In joint sponsorship with Yale University
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23 NOV 2013 10:00 Seminar
“Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan: The State of the Art”
Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)
Chair: Aiko Nishikida (ILCAA)
“Saudi Women’s Negotiation of Power and Space through Driving Campaigns”
Namie Tsujigami (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo)
“What Kind of Role Does GCC Play for Regional Security?: The Significance of the Peninsula Shield Force Deployment to Bahrain and the Possibility of Cooperative Security”
Takuya Murakami (Ph.D. Candidate, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo)
Chair: Hidemitsu Kuroki (Head, JaCMES / ILCAA)
“Structural Adjustment and Social Protection in the MENA Region: Food Subsidies in Jordan”
Yusuke Kawamura (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University/ Durham University)
“Jordanian Broadcasting Strategy in the Changing Regional Media Landscape”
Yushi Chiba (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/The University of Tokyo)
Commentators:
Hassan Hammoud (Lebanese American University)
Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
Ramzi Mabsout (American University of Beirut)
Maria Bou Zeid Farah (Notre Dame University)
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25 NOV 2013 Seminar
“A Reading of the Draft of the Egyptian Constitution of 2013″
Beirut Campus, BAU
The Faculty of Law and Political Science
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25 NOV 2013 13:00 Panel discussion
“Domestic Violence in Lebanon”
Moderator: Dina Kiwan
Panelists:
Charbel Nahas
Jaqueline Hajjar
Rihab
Lydia Farah
West Hall, AUB
IFI
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25 NOV 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Muslims in Australia: The community’s history, successes, challenges and opportunities”
Waleed Aly
College Hall, AUB
CAMES
in collaboration with the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature and The Australian Embassy in Lebanon
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25 NOV 2013 16:00 Lecture
“‘Neo-Ottomanism’ Revisited: Turkey and the Arab Revolutions in Historical Perspective”
Dr. Selim Deringil (professor in the Department of Humanities)
Beirut campus, LAU
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26 NOV 2013 11:30 Panel discussion
“Public Policy Lecture on the Higher Education Reform Project”
Panelists:
Ahmad Jallal
Chafik Mokbel
Georges Yahchouchi
College Hall, AUB
IFI
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26 NOV 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Muslims in Australia: History, Successes, Challenges and Opportunities”
Waleed Aly
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Institute for Migration Studies, the Australian Embassy in Beirut
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26 NOV 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Hypovitaminosis D: Epidemiology, Health Implications and Practice Guidelines”
Dr. Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan
College Hall, AUB
WAAAUB FHS Chapter and FHS
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26 NOV 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Media, Display and Concealment in Beirut: From Colonial Mapping to the Hizballah Live Satellite Feed (1920-2008)”
Dr. Hatim El-Hibri
West Hall, AUB
The Media Studies Program
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27 NOV 2013 12:00 Seminar
“Challenges and Dilemmas of Applied Research Ethics Involving Human Subjects in Lebanon and Qatar”
Jihad Makhoul, DrPH (Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, FHS)
Rima Nakkash, DrPH (Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, FHS)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
The Faculty of Health Sciences
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27 NOV 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Born in the Global 19th Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism as a Problem in the Modern Middle East”
Ussama Makdisi
West Hall, AUB
The Office of the Provost, et al
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27 NOV 2013 17:30 Lecture
“The Phoenicians Genetic Spread in the Mediterranean”
Professor Pierre Zalloua, MD (Lebanese American University)
Post Hall, Archaeological Museum, AUB
The Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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27 NOV 2013 18:00 Conférence
“De la caravane à l’avion : la gestion coloniale du voyage à La Mecque (Maghreb-Levant)”
Sylvia Chiffoleau (Chercheur CNRS, Ifpo)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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28 NOV 2013 Lecture
“Historicizing Early Modernity: Current Strategies of Architectural and Urban Conservation in Postwar Beirut”
Dr. Robert Saliba
Debbieh Campus, BAU
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28-29 NOV 2013 Academic conference
“History- Memory and Literature as Witnesses on Age”
Beirut Campus, BAU
The Faculty of Arts
with the cooperation of Sorbonne Paris IV Université
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28 NOV 2013 – 19 JAN 2014 Exhibition
“Art / World / Disaster”
a project by Pedro Lasch with the participation of artists, students, and activists in Beirut
Byblos Bank Art Gallery, AUB
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28 NOV 2013 12:30 Lecture
“The early assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders and the availability of assessment tools in Lebanon”
Leyla Akouri-Dirani
College Hall, AUB
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29 NOV 2013 10:00 Lecture
“The Government and Politics of the United States of America”
Dr. David Jeffrey (Political Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut)
Beirut campus, LAU
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29 NOV 2013 14:00 Lecture
“Has Putin’s Russia replaced the USA for influence and as a model system in the Middle East?”
Professor Talal Nizameddin
Moderator: Hilal Khashan (Professor for Comparative Politics in PSPA)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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29 NOV 2013 17:00 Lecture
“The Sectarian Scramble for the Post-Ottoman Middle East”
Ussama Makdisi
West Hall, AUB
The Office of the Provost, et al
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29 NOV 2013 18:30 Lecture
“The Architect, The Client, The Spouse and Their Lover”
Michele Maria (Maria Group)
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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