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. Regional experts each delivered a short publication and presented their work at a closed seminar on August 4, 2009, at the American University of Beirut, AUB.

Current Status of Climate Change Research and Policy in the Levant - Jordan Case
by Dr Manar Fayyad, Professor of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry Department, University of Jordan

Knowledge Mapping of Climate Change Issues and Stakeholders in Lebanon
by Dr Nadim Farajalla, IFI Climate Change Forum Faculty Research Director, Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut

Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptations and Policy-Making Process: Palestine as a Case Study
by Dr Ziad Mimi, Associate Professor of water resources, Department of Civil Engineering, Director of Institute of Environmental and Water Studies (IEWS), Birzeit University

Syria: Climate Change, Water and the Policy-Making Process in the Levant and North Africa
by Dr. Abdallah Droubi, Director of Water Resources Division, The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry lands (ACSAD), Syrian Arab Republic

Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region: an assessment of implications for water resources, regional state of awareness and preparedness, and the road ahead
by Dr Hamed Assaf, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut

Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region:An assessment of implications for water resources, regional state of awareness and preparedness, and the road ahead (presentation)
by Dr Antoine Hreiche, Faculty of Engineering, Université Saint-Joseph