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The Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut offers BA and MA degrees in Political Studies and Public Administration. Our department is an inter-disciplinary unit committed to teaching skills in critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and information technology. Collectively, we offer students an opportunity to learn how societies organize, govern, and interact in local, national, regional, and global arenas. Our program's objectives are to address the complexity of human diversity and the important roles that politics and culture play in the wider quest for human development. Our aim is to give PSPA graduates the expertise they need to become effective and responsible leaders, scholars, policy analysts, administrators, and citizens.

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
American University of Beirut
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El Solh
Beirut, Lebanon 1107-2020

Phone:
+961 1 350000 (ext. 4330)

Facsimile:
+961 1 744461

E-mail:
Mrs. Milia Hitti Bou Fadel
mh32@aub.edu.lb

News and Events

December 13, 2011:

The Department of Political Studies and Public Administration is pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Sami Moubayed titled, Syria and the Arab Spring: Future Scenarios for 2012. The lecture will be held in West Hall Auditorium C at 6:00 pm on December 16, 2011. Dr. Moubayed is a professor at the University of Kalamoon in Syria and editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine. He is an author of five books on modern Syria, the latest “Syria and the USA” (IB Tauris) is due for release in December 2012. Moubayed writes regularly for Asia Times, Gulf News, and the Huffington Post. He studied at the PSPA Department and AUB and graduated in 2000, then obtained a PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter.

December 12, 2011:

Mr. Mario Abou Zeid, a PSPA graduate student, was elected Vice President of the University Student Faculty Committee (USFC). The USFC represents all students at the university and provides a forum for expression, discussion and action concerning student rights, privileges and opinions. With the duty to promote and ensure the general welfare of all AUB students, the committee adheres to the university’s laws and policies by encouraging personal responsibility and transparency.

December 7, 2011:
Dr. Danyel Reiche, an Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics at AUB, will deliver a lecture on War Minus the Shooting? Sport, Politics, and Sectarianism in Lebanon, January 17, 2012, in the Orient Institut Beirut (OIB), at 19:00.

December 6, 2011:

Dr. Jamil Mouawad, a PhD candidate in politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), will hold a Brown Bag lecture entitled "Why Does the State still Exist in Lebanon?" The lecture will take place December, 14, 2011 in the West Hall, Room 310, AUB, at 15:30.

December 5, 2011:

Ms. Aliaa Mostafa El Zeiny, a senior in the PSPA Department, was selected as the first place winner of AUB's Founder's Day Student Essay Contest. Aliaa had the opportunity to present her essay, An Egyptian, An Arab, An AUB Student, during AUB's Founder's Day Ceremony. The faculty and students of the PSPA Department would like congratulate Ms. El Zeiny for her accomplishment.

December 1, 2011:

Dr. Lina Haddad Kreidie will deliver a Brown Bag lecture on "The Rise of Iran: Identity Narrative to Challenge the Existing Power Establishment Contesting US Hegemony, Israeli, and Sunni Powers in the Middle East" . The lecture will take place in the West Hall, Room 310, AUB, at 17:00.

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Did You Know?

The region's first Program in Public Administration was created at AUB during the 1951-52 academic year.
Prior to 1957, Political Studies was a stand alone entity called the Department of Political Science and Law.
The Department of Political Studies and Public Administration was founded during the 1957-58 academic year.