The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) at LAU and the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) are on a mission to transform how students in Lebanon learn history.According to CLS Director Dr. Maha Shuayb, the teaching of history in Lebanon has been “hijacked by politicians,” and the textbooks used by students across the country have not…
Celebrating the closing ceremony for “How to make our students young historians?” program in collaboration with Center for Lebanese Studies and funded by the Dutch Embassy in Lebanon. This ceremony brings to an end, two-years filled with serious, commited, hard, and effecient work. Participanting teachers were also awarded with certifcates for successfully completing the 6…
“Nazra” Photo Exhibition The Lebanese Association for History hosted a panel discussion on the Oral History and the Memory of the Civil War in Lebanon as part of the UNDP Lebanon’s event on the commemoration of the war during the opening of “Nazra” photo exhibition. The event was held in “Beit Beirut” on the 15th…
On Friday April 27, 2018, LAH participated in the King’s Day celebration organized by the embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at Saint Georges hotel in Beirut. During this event, the Dutch Embassy invited many of its partners to showcase the work they are doing and how the kingdom of Netherlands assisted them. LAH…
Nayla Hamadeh and Jihane Francis represented LAH at the EUROCLIO 25th annual conference held in Marseille on April 21-26, 2018. Nayla and Jihan facilitated a workshop entitled “Challenging the Peace Treaty for a more Sustainable Peace. The workshop offered an opportunity to present LAH and to show how we are contributing to the building of…
The Centre for Lebanese Studies and A. Moise Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University organized a workshop about “Using Archives in Teaching the History of the Lebanese Diaspora” on Saturday March 03, 2018 at the Lebanese American University Beirut Campus . The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Akram Khater, the…
How to Make Our Students Young Historians ?(Institute 5) February 16-17, 2018 The professional Development program “How to Make our Students Young Historians” continues in 2017 – 2018. The fourth workshop took place in October 2017, followed by the fifth on 16 – 17 February, 2018. The fifth workshop focused primarily on the concept of…
The ministry of education and higher education, with the support of the center of educational research and development, the British Council, the institute of citizenship and diversity management, and EUROCLIO organized a conference on teaching history in Lebanon: reality, experts and initiatives on the 30th of October 2017; attended by government representatives as well as…
As part of the Lebanese Association for History’s (LAH) project to learn about the various histories in Lebanon, a trip was organized by Jamal Arafat to Baalbek to explore the city’s unique cultural heritage and to foster dialogue and future collaboration with history teachers in Baalbek. The tour began at Baalbek’s old train station. Build…
