The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy
and International Affairs (IFI) at AUB
cordially invites you to a lecture and open discussion by
Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Middle East Correspondent, award-winning author,
and 2007-08 "Writer-in-Residence Fellow" at IFI-AUB
"Loss and nostalgia in the Middle East: A foreign correspondent's
reflections on conflict and change in the region"
Thursday, May 29, 4pm, Auditorium B, West Hall, AUB
Anthony Shadid is the first "Writer- in-residence" fellow at
AUB-IFI for the Academic Year 2007-08. Shadid has had a distinguished
career with the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Associated
Press, serving in Washington, Cairo, Los Angeles, Baghdad, and
Beirut. He won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his international
reporting that year, primarily from Iraq. His recent book, "Night
Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War", has
also been widely acclaimed. Shadid took a year off from his
duties as Beirut-based Middle East correspondent for the Washington
Post newspaper, and used his stay at AUB to research and write
a book on his family's migration from Lebanon to Oklahoma. An
American of Lebanese descent, he is a native of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, USA, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin
and Columbia University.
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy
and International Affairs at AUB
cordially invites you to remarks and an open discussion by
AUB President John Waterbury
"My Journey in Political Economy and Public Policy: Reflections
from the Arab World and other Developing Countries"
Wednesday, May 28, from 5-6pm, Bathish Auditorium, West Hall,
AUB
John Waterbury, PhD, became the fourteenth president of AUB
in January 1998. Before joining AUB, Waterbury was, for nearly
twenty years, professor of politics and international affairs
at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. He specialized in the political economy
of the developing countries with a special focus on the Middle
East. He was director of Princeton's Center of International
Studies and editor of the academic journal, World Politics,
from 1992 to 1998. Waterbury earned his PhD in public law and
government at Columbia University in 1968. President Waterbury
has published widely on the politics of the Middle East, the
political economy of public enterprise, and on the development
of international river basins. Among his publications, "The
Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action" published
by Yale University Press in 2002. Waterbury steps down as a
president at the end of the 2007-2008 Academic Year.
The Issam Fares Institute
for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB
cordially invites you to the eighth event of its program
The Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and Environment
in the Arab World
"The Tripod of Academia, Government and Private Sector:
From Science to Policy Making"
Dr. Berj Hatjian
Director General, Lebanese Ministry of Environment
Thursday , May 22, from 5-7pm, Auditorium B1, College
Hall, AUB
Berj Hatjian, PhD, is the Director General of the Directorate
General of Environment Lebanon since 1999. Hatjian will discuss
the lessons learned, from his experiences, about the most
effective linkages among academic researchers, government
officials and the private sector.
Issam Fares Institute
for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at AUB
is pleased to announce the second event of its research and
policy-oriented program, jointly managed with the AUB Center
for Behavioral Research (CBR), on
Public Policy and Governance Challenges of Palestinian Refugee
Camps in the Arab World
A lecture and open discussion with:
Richard Cook
Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon
"Palestinian Camps and Refugees in Lebanon: Priorities,
Challenges and Opportunities Ahead"
Wednesday, May 21, 5-7pm, Auditorium B, West Hall, AUB
Richard Cook is Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon. He practiced
for several years in both private and public organizations in
the United Kingdom. He worked in private practice in Abu Dhabi,
Pakistan and Dubai, before joining UNRWA in Vienna in 1985.In
1993 he transferred to the Gaza Strip, where he headed the UNRWA
Construction Department, and in 1995 he was appointed Deputy
Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza. In 1997 he was appointed
Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, where he remained
until taking up his current assignment as Director of UNRWA
Affairs in Lebanon as of 1 November 2003. |
