december 13, 2018
In partnership with the Collège de France, iReMMO, AFP and France Médias monde, the Arab World Institute is launching a new appointment to decipher current events.
Connected to the flow of information, the Rendez-vous de l'actualité is a moment of deciphering, exchange and perspective for all, on the latest events in the Arab world. Set a few days before the event, the subject, question or event discussed will be taken from the region's immediate news, so as to be as close as possible to what's happening.
Thursday December 20 at 7pm:
"Lebanon: a stateless society?"
A multi-faith state with a complex and unique political system, geographically situated at the heart of the Middle East's tearing conflicts, Lebanon has lived since the civil war in a fragile equilibrium that today faces multiple domestic and regional challenges. Although the country is still without a government, an apparent equilibrium seems to prevail. But in the singular case of Lebanon, should we speak of an unstable equilibrium or stable imbalances?
At the start of the session, to introduce the subject and plunge the audience into its reality, AFP will show a series of photos from its iconographic collection, linked to the chosen theme.
Speakers:
- Karim-Emile Bitar, professor of international relations, consultant and geopolitologist, specialist in the Middle East and US foreign policy
A former ENA student, he now heads the Institute of Political Science at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut. He is Director of Research at IRIS, Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy and editor of the magazine L'ENA hors les murs. He teaches at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and at a number of leading French and international schools and universities. He is co-founder and board member of Kulluna Irada, a civic organization for political reform in Lebanon. He recently organized the international #BeirutHumanRightsWeek conference, during which the USJ hosted a hundred academics and human rights activists from some thirty countries in Beirut.
- Aurélie Daher, teacher-researcher at Paris-Dauphine and Sciences-Po Paris, specialist in Shiite politics and the Hezbollah movement
Aurélie Daher holds a Master's degree in Political Science from ESCP Europe, a DEA in Sociology of the Muslim World and a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. She is a lecturer at Paris-Dauphine University/PSL Research University and at Sciences Po Paris. An Arabist, her research focuses on Hezbollah and Lebanese politics, relations with Iran and Syria, and Middle Eastern Shiism. She also works on new aspects of Middle Eastern jihadism and its repercussions on European societies.
- Rima Tarabay, environmental activist, consultant and Lebanese politician, currently in charge of Saad Hariri's relations with the European Union and the French Parliament
Holder of a Master's degree in clinical and pathological psychology (USJ, Lebanon), a DEA in political science from the IEP in Paris (Arab and Muslim World) and a PhD in geography "Man, space, time, resources and environment" from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne, with honours and congratulations from the jury. Rima Tarabay is a Lebanese political activist and environmentalist, in charge of Saad Hariri's relations with the European Union and the French Parliament. In her thesis, she raises the issue of Lebanese identity and its relationship with geography, hypothesizing: "Can the sustainable environment be a social bond and one of the foundations of a new Lebanese citizenship? After 5 years' involvement with a political group, she spent 2 years as a journalist with L'Orient le Jour. In 1992, she was communications and Lebanese Diaspora relations advisor to Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, with whom she founded the Bahr Loubnan association in 2002 to protect the Lebanese coastline. President of the NGO Eco-Town, Rima Tarabay has set up a network of villages around the Mediterranean based on the ecological transition charter she developed during her thesis.
Moderated by :
- Anthony Bellanger, journalist and international columnist with Les Inrocks and France Inter
