Victoria Louise Stamadianou is Senior Programme Officer with International Alert. Based in Alert’s Beirut office, Victoria leads a project that supports a learning and cross-party dialogue process among the leaders of 19 Lebanese political party youth wings.
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Fawwaz Traboulsi is a Lebanese historian and writer who holds degrees from the American University of Beirut and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is currently Professor at the Lebanese American University. He is a leading intellectual in Lebanon and prominent figure on the Lebanese left. Founder of Bidayat, an intellectual review, he has also authored a number of books, including A History of Modern Lebanon (Pluto Press, 2007).
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Mohammad Sammak is Secretary General of the Committee for Islamic-Christian Dialogue. He has academic training in Political Science and Islamic Thought. He is also counsellor to the Mufti of Lebanon. Highly involved in inter-confessional dialogue, he has authored several books on the subject, including Islam and the Conflict of Civilizations, Introduction to Christian-Muslim Dialogue, and Living together in Christianity and Islam.
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Dima de Clerck is a PhD candidate in History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds an MBA, and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her thesis subject is the sectarian memories of Christians and Druze in post-war Lebanon. She is also a researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient and the author of several published and forthcoming articles.
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Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation tackles the issue of alternative globalisation activists and movements in Lebanon. She is also a research associate at Institut Francais du Proche-Orient.
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A native of South Lebanon and leftist intellectual in the pre-war period, Ahmad Beydoun holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne and taught sociology at the Lebanese University. He has authored a dozen remarkable books on Lebanese historiography, its political system, its civil war and the quest for a Lebanese national identity. He is among the most respected historians and sociologists in his country.
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Liliane Kfoury has an MA in economic and social history and is the head of the research program on memory in the Centre d’Etudes pour le Monde Arabe Moderne at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Her research focuses on migration, borders, identity issues and cultural heritage.
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Sune Haugbølle is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Copenhagen University. He has written extensively on Lebanon and is the author of War and Memory in Lebanon (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His work also deals with truth and reconciliation in the Middle East.
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