forumZFD and the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) in collaboration with the Barbir Hospital have organized an exhibition on “Sites of Commemoration in Lebanon: Towards a better understanding of the past”. The exhibition took place on Saturday, 29 April, 2017 from 11am to 2pm at the Barbir Hospital building, Mazraa-Mathaf road, Beirut.The exhibition is part…
The History Curriculum in Lebanon has not been changed since 1970. Different parties have been unable to agree on how to tackle the Lebanese Civil War. The recently established Lebanese Association for History (LAH) took the initiative to start addressing the civil war by organising a seminar in Beirut from 18-19 June on “Teaching and…
Maha Shuayb, Nayla Hamadeh, Amine Elias and Jihane Francis facilitated workshop 3 “Is Diversity a complex historical concept?” which took place on April 7-8, as part of the “How to make our students young historians?” program. Participants were engaged in a variety of activities to study diversity by looking at overt and covert similarities and…
Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity “Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity” is the workshop facilitated by LAH members Bassel Akar, Maha Shuayb, Jihane Francis, and Amira Al Hariri. For two full days, participants experimented with the disciplinary approach for teaching history. They analyzed sources, investigated their…
The “How to Develop Young Historians?” program kicked off on January 13, 2017 with a group of 36 teachers from all the Lebanon regions. The first institute “From historical thinking to building causal reasoning in history classrooms” was facilitated by Nayla Hamadeh, Bassel Akar, Amira Hariri, and Amine Elias. In part I, participants engaged in…
In association with Euroclio and AHDR (Cyprus), LAH hosted on February 11-12, 2017 the second meeting for the ‘Learning (my) History, your history’ project. The team met in Beirut to continue working on cross national curriculum units. Under the guidance of Michael Riley, Jamie Byrom and Steven Stegers, teachers planned, reflected, gave and received feedback,…
LAH in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU) is launching its professional development program for 2017-2018 How do we make our students young historians? The program aims at building participants’ capacities to develop disciplinary approaches to teaching history, produce teaching material that promotes critical thinking and evidence-based research…
As part of our partnership with forum zfd, LAH actively participated in the seminar organized by the forum, on September 23, 2016, with representatives of youth organisations of several Lebanese political parties. The seminar aimed at opening a constructive dialogue about their particular role in memorialization and learning about the past.Building upon the idea that…
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Nationwide workshops to reach out to history teachers in all the regions. This project represents the second phase for the “Developing History Teachers Capacity to Foster Historical thinking” project implemented in 2014 – 2015.The new project planned for the academic year 2015 – 2016 aims at reaching a wider and more diverse group of history…