Three years of diligent work with a group of multi-disciplinary Lebanese academics by the Lebanese Association for History, in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Lebanon and Syria, culminated in the launch of a newly emerging working group ‘Academics for Lebanon’ on February 27, 2025, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the Ain el-Mreisseh, Beirut.…
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By Nayla Khodr Hamadeh November 2024 Lebanese Association for History Since early September, Lebanon has borne witness to an escalation of war that has wreaked havoc across the country, leading to unprecedented levels of destruction and chaos. With over a million individuals uprooted from their homes and more than three thousand seven hundred lives tragically…
“9 days of training/4 workshops in addition to 4 remote sessions as part of the program ‘Eye on the Past, Eye on the Future’ presented by the Lebanese Association for History in partnership with Forumzfd (2023-2024). In the final workshop we aimed to enhance historical concepts among the participants, particularly the concept of historical significance,…
As part of the “Tamkin” training program organized by Citizens_and_Politics Association, a group of 24 trainees visited LAH office on Friday, August 23, 2024, where they got to know the Association and, under the facilitation of Dr. Amin Elias, worked on two stages of Lebanon’s contemporary history: The period between 1920 and 1975, where the…
Within its efforts to delve into contested history and ways to address it in history education, LAH hosted Professor Chaden Hani in a workshop on ‘Competing and Conflicting Narratives’ regarding significant events that occurred during the civil war. The workshop provided an opportunity to discuss narratives surrounding the Black Saturday incident, which took place in…
Thinking through multiple interpretations and controversial history was the theme that brought together the facilitators at LAH for a two-day workshop facilitated by Nayla Hamadeh and Hussam Mohieddine. The team considered nuances between multiple interpretations and controversy over history. They also brainstormed together the aims of a controversial history curriculum, its strategies, learning environment, methodology,…
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