• December 16& 20: The opening of the conference on 'Sustainable Electricity for all of Lebanon', which was organized by the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs
• March 15: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs for media coverage of the Syrian crisis
• March 27: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Rewrite History in a Pluralist Society'
• April 24: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Women in the Arab Changes'
• May 2: Fares conveys a message of congratulations to the municipal council of Gebrael
• May 4: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs about the European Union& the Middle East
• May 8: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Positive Neutrality in Lebanon's Foreign Policy'
• May 21: Issam Fares: 'To keep the military institution immune to political pressure'
• May 22: Bayno's 15-member consensual electoral list has been announced at Fares residence in Bayno, in a ceremony attended by the Director General of the Fares Foundation retired Brigadier General William Mjalli representing Issam Fares, and the General Manager of Fares business in Lebanon, engineer Sajieh Atie
• May 22: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Censorship in Lebanon'
• May 29: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'A New Re-examination of the Electoral Law'
• June 6: The 'Arabian Business Magazine', in cooperation and participation with Maj. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, selected former Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares among the 500 most powerful and influential Arab personalities in the world for 2012
• June 19: First Annual Lecture for Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs, held under the title 'The Arab Changes and Prospects for Democracy'
• June 21: Former Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares addressed two telegrams of congratulations to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, and to the Saudi Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz
• June 23: Rauf Shahoury in 'Al Anwar' daily: 'Issam Fares enjoys the quality of philanthropist more than that of a millionaire'
• June 29: Ninth Conference of the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs, held under the title 'Challenges of Democracy in the Arab World'
• July 7: Fares denounces the assassination attempt of MP Boutros Harb
• July 11: H.B. Patriarch el Rai hosts the director of the Fares Foundation Brigadier General William Mjalli and receives a phone call from Issam Fares
• July 25: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The Parliamentary Majority: A Difficult or an Impossible Alliance?'
• August 2: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs, under the title 'The Baabda Declaration and the Political Forces Linkage to Abroad'
• August 6: Fares mourns Ghassan Tueni, depicting his death as a 'great national loss'
• August 13: A round table held at Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Are there any Lebanese Lessons for the Syrian crisis?'
• August 14: H.B. Patriarch el Rai visits Issam and Hala Fares residence in Bayno
• August 30: A telephone conversation is held between the Patriarch and Fares during which discussions touched upon the prevailing general situation
• September 11: Fares wholeheartedly welcomes the visit of His Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon, saying, 'The Pope Benedict XVI will come tomorrow also as a messenger of peace, carrying with him the Apostolic Exhortation to Lebanon and to other countries in the Middle East'
• September 11: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'France and the Arab Changes'
• September 25: Engineer Sajie Atie represents H.E. Mr. Fares in the opening ceremony of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Rahbe, Akkar
• Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Syria on the Brink of the Abyss: the Chances of Success of Lakhdar Brahimi's Task'
• October 3: Reunion at Issam Fares Institute of Technology in Bayno on the occasion of the start of the new academic year
• October 9: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The Apostolic Exhortation and the Reality of the Region'
October 19: During a remarkable event held in New York, H.B Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, honored Fares, bestowing on him the Order of Saints Peter and Paul
• October 30: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The US Presidential Elections and their Potential Impact on the Middle East'
• November 7: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'Problems of the Formulation of an International Law Preventing the Insulting of Heavenly Religions'
• November 13: Issam Fares 2012 Award for Excellence to Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
• November 22: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The Makers& Historians of Lebanon's Contemporary History'
• December 5: 'Al Anwar' daily writes, 'Issam Fares is the Man of all Stages'
• December 6: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The Representation of Expatriates: Preserving their Rights and Achieving Lebanon's Interest'
• December 7: Issam Fares mourns Patriarch Hazim, 'we lost a courageous leader and a wise shepherd'
• December 16: Seminar held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanese Affairs under the title 'The Democracy of Egypt: between the Regional Role and the Internal Challenges'
• December 19: Daad Salim Naffaa writes in 'Annahar' daily, 'Issam Fares is the Man of Reconciliation and Reform!'
• December 27: Opening of St. Michael's Church Hall in Akkar, which was donated by Issam Fares
• Brigadier General William Mjalli pays a visit to Maronite Patriarch Bechara el Rai, representing Fares