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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Elizabeth Picard is a leading Middle East scholar and Lebanon specialist. She has written extensively about security and identity politics in the Middle East and is the author of several articles and book chapters on the Lebanese civil war, including the acclaimed Lebanon, a shattered Country (New York: Holmes and Meier, 2002).