2008
January: The Issam Fares Center for Lebanon launches the ‘
Issam Fares Prize in Media Excellence’
for the year 2007
January 18: Conference at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy& International Affairs on dialogue with Islamist movements
January 30: A roundtable held at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon revolved around ‘Lebanon and the Middle East: The Regime Crisis in Lebanon, the Arab Interests, and International Interests’
February: Inauguration of an office for the Gathering of the Industrialists of Akkar thanks to the support and contribution of Fares
February 8: The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts organizes its annual congress on March 27-28 under the title ‘The United States& the Middle East: What after Iraq?’
February 15: Issam Fares Center for Lebanon organizes a conference under the title ‘Iran Today: Changes& Orientations’
Publication of the Issam Fares Lecture series at Tufts in the Russian language
February 18: Fares sponsors the annual dinner banquet organized by the Council of the Development of Koura on the occasion of the commemoration of its establishment 17 years ago. Fares states, ‘Issam Fares at a serious crossroad of its history’
Conference held by the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon on democratic ruling in pluralistic societies
February 21: Honorary shields to Fares from the Gathering of the Industrialists of Akkar and the Islamic Advocacy Group
March 2: Celebration of the laying of the cornerstone of Issam Fares Municipal Palace in Mashta Hasan
March 12: The Fares Center for Lebanon organizes a conference under the title ‘Escalation of the Lebanese crisis: Lebanon, where to?’
April 7: Director General of Issam Fares Center for Lebanon Dr. Abdallah BouHabib: ‘Fares did not yet take his decision about running for the elections next year or not’
April 9: Issam Fares Center for Lebanon organizes a conference under the title ‘Lebanon and the Arab Summit’
May 5: Issam Fares Center for Lebanon holds a debate on ‘The US Policy towards Lebanon and the Middle East after Bush’
July 1: Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy& International Affairs hosts a panel discussion on the prospects for electoral reform in Lebanon
July 31: Fares sponsors the first educational gathering for the region of Akkar held in honor of the Directors of Schools and Public& Private Institutes of Akkar
September: The Diplomatic Academy of Moscow elects Fares among its prominent members of the Board of Trustees
September 23: Mr. Issam Fares& Mrs. Hala Fares hold a dinner
banquet in Paris in honor of Patriarch of Antioch Hazim IV
October 10: The Issam Fares Center for Lebanon hosts a conference titled ‘The Lebanese Democracy: Competition or Consensus?’
October 15: Event held at Phoenicia Hotel to present Issam Fares Prize in Media Excellence’
November 21: Inauguration of Issam Fares Conference Hall at the Social Science Faculty – Third Branch of the Lebanese University
November 23: Fares is decorated the
Highest Russian Order from the Club of the Friends of Moscow& Mrs. Hala Fares receives the Order of Saint Elizabeth
in appreciation of her humanitarian efforts
December 21: Laying the cornerstone of Issam Fares Institute for Technology in Bayno, in presence of Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim
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