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05 Jul 2010
Featured Speaker H.E. Dr. Francois Barras, Ambassador of Switzerland to Lebanon. Lebanese agree that Ambassador Barras has done that and more. He was active at every level, social, economic, and political more
18 Jun 2010
After discussing Lebanese perceptions of Syrian ambitions in Lebanon last week, the Issam Fares Center on Wednesday held a talk to highlight Syria’s point of view.  more
26 Apr 2010
Aaron David Miller, a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 2006, served at the Department of State for almost two decades, beginning with the Carter Administration in 1978 and ending with the second Bush Administration in 2003 more
23 Apr 2010
Lebanon’s model of power sharing is “doomed to fail” as it has done in Iraq, a strategic researcher on Iraqi affairs said Wednesday. At a lecture on Iraq at the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon in Beirut, Abdel Hussein Chaaban said Iraq’s current consociationalist model would ultimately fail as it only serves for a transitional period, not permanent more
12 Mar 2010
Issam Fares Center for Lebanon organized, yesterday, a seminar entitled “Is there a need for constitutional amendments?”, in which MP Samir Al Jisr and ex-MP Mikhael Daher took part. After giving a presentation to the Director of the Center, Ambassador Abdallah Bou Habib, Daher said: “The system in Lebanon is democratic and consensual, governed by well-defined majorities, and does not allow the exclusion of religious communities from participation in decision-making.”  more
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