IFI-AUB held, on Friday, May 29, 2009, 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.

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"