• November 2: The Issam Fares Lecture given by former US Chairman and Joint Chief of Staff Mr. Colin Powell, under the title ‘Management of Crisis And Change: The Middle East’
• November 4: Fares is awarded the Honorary Doctorate of International Public Affairs by Tufts University
• Fares receives in Washington the Twentieth Century Achievement Award from the Board of Directors of the American Biographical Institute in recognition of Fares’ career achievements and social contributions among ‘1000 Leaders of World Influence’
• December 17: Inauguration by Fares of the Municipal Palace of Qboula in Akkar