| Date / Time | Sat 9 Feb 2019 15:00–17:00 |
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| Venue | Room 306, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Access Guide |
| Language | English |
| Jointly sponsored by | - The Project “Syrian Civil War in Comparison with Lebanese and Yugoslavian Civil Wars” (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) coordinated by Hidemitsu Kuroki - The Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World,” ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
| Participation: Free of charge, no registration required Contact: Hidemitsu Kuroki (kuroki[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp) *Please change [at] to @. |
- Lecture by Dima de Clerck (Saint Joseph University, Beirut)
“War exit and government sponsored resettlement and reconciliations in post-war Lebanon” - Discussant : Housam Darwisheh (Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
- Chair : Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
- ＜Profile of the Lecturer＞
- Dr. Dima de Clerck is a fellow researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) specializing in Middle Eastern studies, a lecturer in History at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and at the Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon. She holds a PhD in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where she occasionally gives lectures, an MA from the Institut des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris) in Middle Eastern Studies. She is the coeditor of a book: 1860: History and Memory of a Conflict and the author of several published and forthcoming articles.
- ＜Profile of the Discussant＞
- Dr. Housam Darwisheh is a researcher at Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, Japan, specializing in Middle East politics. His publications include “Ruling against Revolution: The Judiciary and the Restoration of Authoritarianism in Egypt,” IDE Middle East Review 5, 2018; “Violent Extremism in the Middle East and North Africa, Revisiting Conditions and Rethinking Solutions,” IDE Middle East Review 4, 2016; “Deciphering Syria’s Power Dynamics and Protracted Conflict,” in The Middle East Turmoil and Japanese Response, ed. Hitoshi Suzuki (Chiba: IDE, 2013).
