01-03 JUL 2015 Exhibition
“Material techniques in Model Making- Technical Graphics III exhibition”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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02 JUL 2015 18:00 Séminaire de lecture
“Sur le croisement entre psychiatrie et anthropologie : Comment penser la folie ?”
IFPO
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02-04 JUN 2015 International Conference
“Angels and Mankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near Eastern and Islamic Traditions”
OIB
02 JUL
Panel 1: ‘Physiology’ of Heavenly Beings
Chair: Astrid Meier (Beirut)
“Uniting Fire and Snow: Representations of the Wondrous Angel ‘Beloved’ in Medieval Muslim Versions of Muhammand’s Ascension and in the Late Rabbinic ‘Ascension of Moses’”
Frederick S. Colby (Oregon)
“Création et Êtres angéliques d’aprés un manuscrit Arabe inédit, l’Hexaéméron du Pseudo-Épiphane de Salamine”
Marlène Kanaan (Balamand)
Chair: Jack Khalil (Balamand)
“Angélologie et contingence”
Jad Hatem(Beirut)
“Angelomorphosis: He Who Knows Himself Knows His Lord”
Samir Mahmoud (Beirut)
Keynote Lecture “Celestial and Mundane at the Emergence of Islam”
Prof. Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh (Budapest)
03 JUL
Panel 2: ‘Topography’ and Hierarchical Scheme of the Heavenly Host
Chair: Hussein Abdulsater (Beirut)
“Where Angels Dwell. Extraterrestrian Worlds in Jewish and Christian Texts in Late Antiquity”
Johann Hafner (Potsdam)
“Panangelon: Angelology and Its Relation to Polytheism”
Stephen Burge (London)
Chair: Thomas Scheffler (Beirut)
“The Ikhwan al-Safa on Angels and Spiritual Beings”
Godefroid de Callatay (Louvain)
“Heavenly Geography (Uranography) in the Ancient Near/Middle East”
David Kiltz (St. Andrews)
Panel 3: Mission, Vocation and Agency of Angels
Chair: Dahlia E. M. Gubara (Beirut)
“As the Angels Stretch Out Their Hands (Quran 6:93): The Work of Heavenly Agents according to Muslim Eschatology”
Sebastian Günther (Göttingen)
“The Carriers of the Throne: Sunni Angelology and Sectarian Debates and Polemics”
Roberto Tottoli (Napoli)
“Angel of Satan in 2 Cor 12:7″
Jack Khalil (Balamand)
“Ibn Khaldun’s Scientific Approach to Angels as Part of Human Civilization”
Stefan Leder (Beirut)
“Transmitters of Knowledge – Guardians of Secrets. Perfect Servants and Messengers of the Hidden in Abbasid Literature”
Hans-Peter Pökel (Beirut)
04 JUL
University of Balamand
Panel 4: Visual and Textual Evolution: Angelic Nomenclature and Iconography
Chair: Souad Slim (Balamand)
“Zakariyya al-Qazwini on the Inhabitants of the Supralunar World: How to Reconcile Activities of Angels with the Workings of Nature”
Karin Rührdanz (Toronto)
“The Primordial Cycle Revisit-Adam, Eve and the Angels”
Sara Kuehn (Marseille/Beirut)
“Aux origines de l’image des anges: une approche iconographique”
Nada Hélou (Beirut)
“Dressing like the Phoenix, The Angelic Fashion in the Medieval East Islamic World”
Yuka Kadoi (Washington)
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14 JUL 2015 11:00 Conférence
“La perception de sécurité chez les réfugiés syriens et les libanais”
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Institut des sciences politiques
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22 JUL 2015 18:30 Presentation
“The Role of Well-Being and Stress in Succssful Entrepreneurship”
Dr. Josette DjiKhuizen
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, AUB
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25 JUL 2015 10:30 Lecture
“Unveiling the Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations”
Public lectures presented by C.I.R.C.E.S International
“Sacred Knowledge of the Middle East”
Tim Hogan (Author and International Speaker)
“Unlocking the Secrets of Giza”
Robert Bauval (International Best Selling Egyptologist)
West Hall, AUB
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25 JUL 2015 16:00 Panel Discussion
“The UN then and now: 70 years later”
with HE Tarek Mitri & HE. Riad Tabbarah
Moderated by Rami Khouri
West Hall, AUB
AUB and WAAAUB
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27-30 JUL 2015 International Conference
“Women Leaders as Agents of Change: The Role of Women in the Changes Taking Place in the MENA Region”
Organizer: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, LAU
The opening session for the
conference will take place at:
Irwin Hall, Auditorium
Lebanese American University
All other conference sessions
will be held at:
Crown Plaza Hotel
Hamra Main Street
Beirut
27 JUL
Panel 1: UN Resolution 1325 – International Instruments and How they Benefit Women
Moderator: Dr. Sami Baroudi (LAU, Lebanon)
“UNSCR 1325, An Instrument for Women’s Leadership”
Dr. Mavic Cabrera-Balleza (Global Network for Women Peacebuilders, USA)
“How to Get More Women into Decision Making Positions: The Case for Supporting the UN Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security with National Action Plans”
Senator Mobina Jaffer (Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Canada)
“Gaps and Achievements in the Implementation of SCR 1325 (2000) in the Arab Region”
Dr. Samira Atallah (ESCWA Center for Women, Lebanon)
“The Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in the Fight Against ISIL”
Dr. Karim Kamel (the Social Science Research Council, USA)
Dr. Sabrina Stein (Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, USA)
Panel 2: Gender Rights and Feminist Concerns: Current Debates in the Region
Moderator: Dr. Samira Attallah (ESCWA Center for Women, Lebanon)
“Political Islam and the Future of Women’s Rights”
Dr. Amel Grami (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
“Constitutionalizing Women’s Issues in MENA: Towards a Thick Constitutional Guarantee for Women’s Rights”
Dr. Naoko Kuwahara (Fukuyama City University, Japan)
“Knowledge Formations, Gendered Pedagogies, and Radical Imaginaries”
Dr. Carol Fadda-Conrey and Dr. Dana Olwan (Syracuse University, USA)
“Women, Progress, and the Arab Uprisings/Revolutions: Lessons from Iran”
Dr. Elham Atashi (Georgetown University, USA)
28 JUL
Panel 3: Human Rights Concerns and Violations in the Arab Region
Moderator: Dr. Azza Sharara Beydoun (Bahithat, Lebanon)
“Those Awful Tahrir Rapes”
Dr. Lama Abou Odeh (Georgetown University Law Center, USA)
“The Importance of Positionality in Addressing Syrian Refugees Reproductive and Sexual Health: How Liberal Discourse Can Advance Xenophobic Agendas”
Rola Yasmine (The A project, Lebanon)
“Promoting Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment from a Human Rights Perspective”
Yasmine Masri (Search for Common Ground, Lebanon)
““To Protect Her Honor”: Child Marriage in Emergencies – The Fatal Confusion Between Protecting Girls and Sexual Violence”
Danielle Spencer (CARE International, U.K.) (via Skype)
Panel 4: Women’s Political Participation & Activism During and After the Arab Uprisings/Revolutions
Moderator: Dr. Samira Aghacy (IWSAW-LAU, Lebanon)
“Egyptian Women Activism: Is it Commensurate with their Political Participation?”
Ambassador Moushira Khattab (Egypt)
“Democracy and Women’s Rights in Libya”
Judge Naima Gebril (Libya)
“Tunisian Women: Before and After the Tunisian Spring”
Dr. Khadija Arfaoui (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
“Four Years After the 2011 Constitution: What has Changed and What Needs to be Changed for a Real Empowerment of Women in Morocco”
Dr. Larbi Touaf (Université Mohammed I Oujda, Morocco)
Panel 5: Changes Impacting Women in the Arab Region I
Moderator: Dr. Dima Dabbous (LAU, Lebanon)
“Gender and Social and Solidarity Economy in the Context of Women’s Movements in the Region”
Dr. Simel Esim (ILO, Switzerland) (via Skype)
“New Social Roles of Women Between the Family and Public Spheres in the Gulf States”
Dr. Kaltham Ali Al-Ghanim (Qatar University, Qatar)
“The Noor Project”
Dr. Alaa Murabit (The Voice of Libyan Women, Libya)
“The Jordanian Women’s Movement Fight Against Discriminatory Laws”
Rana Husseini (The Jordan Times, Jordan)
29 JUL
Panel 6: Changes Impacting Women in the Arab Region II
Moderator: to be confirmed
“Civil Marriage: What is the Issue?”
Talal AlHousseini (Civil Center for National Initiative, Lebanon)
“Family Violence Law and the Changes it Introduced”
Maitre Leila Awada (KAFA, Lebanon)
“Translation, Language, and Change: The Politics of Arab Women’s Literature”
Dr. Michelle Hartman (McGill University, Canada)
“Cross Dressing in the 1920′s Photographs”
Dr. Yasmine Nashabe Taan (Lebanese American Univeristy, Lebanon)
Panel 7: Conflict and Gender Rights
Moderator: Nicia Dannawi (UNFPA, Lebanon)
“The Situation of Iraqi Women Under ISIS Control”
Dr. Nahla Naddawi (University of Baghdad, Iraq)
“Women are the Red Line? Gender Relations and the Military State in Egypt”
Nada Ali Ramadan (Population Council, Cairo office, Egypt)
“Women Leaders Emerging from the Yemeni Conflict: Agents of Change?”
Dr. Connie Christiansen (University of Rosklide, Denmark)
“Wives of the Missing and the Disappeared in Lebanon”
Wadad Halawani (The Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon, Lebanon)
Panel 8: Screenings
The Trials of Spring (USA)
30 JUL
Panel 9: Leadership, Empowerment, Activism, and Gender Rights
Moderator: to be confirmed
“Transformative Women’s Leadership: What it is, and What it Means to be a Transformative Leader”
Dr. Srilatha Batliwala (India) (via Skype)
“Cyber-Activism and Gender Rights”
Alia Ibrahim (Al-Arabiya News, Lebanon)
“Voices of Women: Post Arab Uprisings/Revolutions”
Amna Abdullatif (Women’s Aid, U.K.)
“Women in Action: Leading by Example”
Ghid Amhez (MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Alumna, Lebanon)
“A Poem: Revolt”
Nathir Haimoun (MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Student, Syria)
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28 JUL 2015 17:30 Panel Discussion
“Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s”
West Hall, AUB
“Banking Regulation in Post-WWII Lebanon: Derailing Development, Self-Organization, & Legal Cooptation”
Hicham Safieddine (Department of History, Rice University)
“The Legacy of Old Laws and the Fight for the Commons”
Abir Saksouk-Sasso (Studio for Public Works and Dictaphone Group)
“Workers’ Mobilization for State Building in Lebanon 1943-1958″
Lea Bou Khater (School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) – University of London)
“Dislocating the Nation: Imagining Lebanon in Tourism Promotions”
Zeina Maasri (Department of Architecture and Design, AUB)
This event is organized by the Arab Studies Institute and George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, in partnership with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at AUB and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS).
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31 JUL 2015 Performance
“Ilik Ya Baalbak (A Tribute to Baalbeck)”
Produced by: Baalbeck International Festival
Directed by: Nabil El Azan
Steps of Bacchus Temple
Baalbeck International Festival 2015
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