september 18, 2020
In partnership with the Collège de France, iReMMO, AFP and France Médias Monde, the Institut du Monde Arabe is launching a new event 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 will be drawn from the region's immediate news, to keep as close as possible to what's happening.
Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 7:00 pm:
"Lebanon today: a shared citizenship?"
Last month, a double explosion struck the city of Beirut, and the country seemed to reach a point of no return in its economic, political, health and migratory crisis. How does the question of tomorrow arise, of the future to be rebuilt? At a time when everything seems unstable and uncertain, one notion seems to be emerging with clarity: that of citizenship, and is imposing itself as a return to the constitutional foundations of a fractured society, saving it from the identity-based tensions and oppositions of the past, in order to rebuild Lebanon's future.
A series of photos by Lebanese photographer Myriam Boulos will be shown at the start of the session.
Hosted by :
- Pierre Haski, journalist, geopolitical columnist for France Inter and L'Obs, co-founder of Rue89 and President of Reporters sans Frontières (RSF)
Speakers:
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Karim Emile Bitar, professor of international relations, consultant and geopolitologist, specialist in the Middle East and US foreign policy
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Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, Professor Emeritus and President of iReMMO
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Dominique Eddé, novelist and essayist
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Nadim Houry, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative think tank
- Sibylle Rizk, Director of Public Policy, non-governmental organization Kulluna Irada
This Rendez-vous de l'actualité on September 24 will be held in duplex between the IMA and the Institut Français de Beyrouth.
It will kick off our Paris-Beirut event: on Jack Lang's initiative, the Arab World Institute is joining forces with France Culture, the Théâtre de la Colline and the cultural venue Station Beirut, to offer a major event in support of the Lebanese people on September 25 and 26, 2020, bringing together a host of intellectuals, artists, activists, Lebanese and friends of Lebanon on the forecourt of the IMA in Paris, in liaison with Beirut.
