Aïda Kanafani-Zahar is an anthropologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France, Paris. Her research on contemporary Lebanon includes inter-religious dialogue, institutional secularisation, memories of the civil war, and reconciliation processes.
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Ziad Majed is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the American University of Paris. He is also Coordinator of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy.
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Samir Frangieh is a member of the General Secretariat of 14 March Alliance and a former Lebanese MP.
Samir Frangieh is a contributor to our Accord publication series and not a staff member of Conciliation Resources. The views expressed in the publication are their own and do not reflect the position of Conciliation Resources. We cannot share contributors' contact details.
Ali Fayyad is a Hezbollah MP and a prominent figure associated with the 8 March Alliance.
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Karam Karam is Head of Research at the Common Space Initiative for Shared Knowledge and Consensus Building. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix en Provence. Before this, he was Program Director at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies focusing on political development and social transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World. In this role he worked with the UNDP, the Arab Reform Initiative and the Euro Mediterranean Study Commission. He is also a founding member of both the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections and the Legal Agenda.
Nawaf Kabbara is President of the National Association for the Rights of Disabled People in Lebanon, and Professor of Political Science at Balamand University.
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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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