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Country-specific Studies on Climate Change and the Policy-making Process in the Levant
The Issam Fares Institute commissioned 5 country/region-specific papers on the various issues and stakeholders involved in climate change for the Levant countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria) and North Africa.
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Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund
The Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund at AUB will honor the life and legacy of the late Nadim Makdisi by sponsoring an annual lecture and funding research in the field of media and communications.
Richard Makdisi, the son of Nadim, generously endowed the fund with a donation of $200,000. The memorial fund and its activities are housed at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at AUB.
Every year IFI will organize an annual Nadim Makdisi Memorial Lecture by a distinguished Arab or international personality in the field of mass media and communications and their intersection with public policy. The first lecture will be held in the fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year.
The fund will also offer several fellowships to AUB graduate students to undertake research related to journalism and communications, the fields that defined Nadim Makdisi's professional life.
IISD report on Climate Change and Security in the Middle East now available online
IFI hosted the Danish Embassy Lebanon and IndyACT at AUB to launch a new report published by Canadian reaserch insititute IISD titled, "Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East"
Download / Read full report (PDF) English | Arabic
Proceedings on the Regional Workshop on 'Arab World Policy for Post-2012 Negotiations'
IFI, IndyAct and the Heinrich Boll Foundation published the proceedings of this 2-day regional Climate Change workshop held at AUB 14/15 October 2008.
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IFI inaugurates Student Academic Journal: "Middle East Policy and Society"
IFI-AUB will hold, on Friday, May 29, from 3-7pm, a symposium to inaugurate its first biannual student journal, "Middle East Policy and Society". This groundbreaking move gives students (graduate and undergraduate) at AUB and in the Middle East the chance to publish their work in a student-run and Middle East-based academic journal.
Contributors:
Sami Alami
"Water and Strategy in the Jordan River Basin"
Nathalie Chamaa
"The Impact of Post-colonialism on Identity Construction in Ghana"
Ahmed Diaa Dardir
"The Lebanese Army and the Institutional and Symbolic Reinstitution of Lebanese Statehood"
Joline El Chakhtoura
"Photobioreactor Systems for Concentrating Solar Energy in the Lipids of Photosynthetic Algae: A Renewable Source of Biodiesel"
Vahakn Keshishian
"Fiscal Policies of Aid and Investment: An Application of Advocacy Coalition Framework"
Eugene Yukin
"UNIFIL’s Mandate and Rules of Engagement" |