The Lebanese Association for History continued its work within the project “The Role of Women in Creating History/Towards a Gender Lens” through a new workshop that lasted for two days, on February 21 and 22. The workshop, which brought together 14 male and female teachers from both public and private secondary schools, focused on enhancing…
The first session of the “Her History is Our History” workshop brought together around 30 history teachers from both public and private high schools for an enriching educational experience. Over three days of dynamic activities, participants explored the noticeable absence of women in history curricula and discussed strategies to integrate women’s perspectives into classroom lessons—adding…
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.…
“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,…
A new collaboration was launched by the Lebanese Association For History with the Faculty of Education at the Lebanese University, through a workshop titled ‘New Approaches in Teaching History: Towards a Diversity-Including Narrative’. Based on the belief that today’s students are tomorrow’s teachers, the training team sought to enhance their abilities to deal with multiple…
The “Eye on the Past, Eye on the Future” training program is still ongoing with a new two-day workshop that brings together 30 history teachers from various Lebanese regions. The training team supported in building historical thinking among the teachers by following the historical method when approaching the past, starting with asking the investigative question,…
The Lebanese Association for History, in partnership with UN Women, organized two seminars titled “From our Forgotten History: Children from Lebanon and the Issue of Illegal Adoption”. The seminars took place in Tripoli on March 23 and in Beirut on March 26 with the specialist on the issue of illegal adoption, Dr. Zeina Alloush. Dr.…