PSPA Department in the News

 

Local News Media

 

Summer, 2005

• Tech Times. Main Gate, Vol. III, No. 4

April, 2005

• As-Safir and Al-Anwar of April 15 reported on the forthcoming lecture by Francesco Acosta, an advisor for the European Committee for Lebanon, at Nicely Hall. The lecture is entitled; "The Policies of the European Neighbors and Lebanon" and is organized by the PSPA Department in coordination with Issam Fares Institute for International Affairs.
   

• Al-Anwar and Al-Bayraq of April 15 reported on the forthcoming lecture by Francesco Acosta, a senior advisor for the European Committee for Lebanon, at Nicely Hall. The lecture is entitled "The Policies of the European Neighborhood and Lebanon"  and is organized by the PSPA Department in coordination with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International
  Affairs at AUB.

February, 2005

• An-Nahar of February 13 interviewed Professor Robert D. Putnam (Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard) on his publications and many critical issues related to US foreign policy. Dr. Putnam gave a lecture entitled "Community Engagement in a Changing America" at West Hall last January. His lecture was organized by the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) in coordination with the PSPA Department.

October, 2004

• Papers of October 22 reported that on the occasion of the United Nations Day (October 24), the PSPA and the UN in Lebanon present a series of events in AUB, including a conference on landmines removal, at Assembly Hall. Lectures were given by General Selim Raad, director of the National Office of Landmines Removal established in 1998, and Chris Clark, the director of the United Nations Program on Landmines Removal. Former UN spokesman Timor Goksel, presented the two lecturers. More than 32,000 landmines are still scattered throughout South Lebanon and areas in the North and in Mount Lebanon.

June, 2004

• Papers of June 9 and 11 reported on the seminar "Policy Agendas, Conflict and Fallout in the Middle East" which was organized by the PSPA in collaboration of he Center for Lebanese Studies in Oxford and the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.