5 Nov 2024 18:00 - 19:00
Caabu invites you to an online briefing on Lebanon with Maha Yahya, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, on Tuesday 5 November 2024 at 6pm (GMT UK time).
Join us for this important briefing on the situation in Lebanon, as it faces Israeli invasion and bombardment, and listen to expert Maha Yahya discuss the latest on the situation, and what efforts must be made. Maha previously spoke at a Caabu online briefing in October 2022 which can be watched here.
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When: Tuesday 5 November 2024, 18:00 (GMT, UK time).
Where: Online. Sign up for the discussion here.
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About the speaker:
Maha Yahya is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focuses broadly on political violence, identity politics, inequality, citizenship, and the refugee crisis. She has two PhDs in the social sciences and humanities from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Architectural Association (AA) in London. She has consulted with international organisations including the United Nations organisations and the World Bank as well the private sector on a broad range of issues in among other countries Lebanon, Pakistan, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. She serves on a number of advisory boards including the UNESCO international commission on the Futures of Education; a global member of the Trilateral Commission; co-chair of the International Advisory Board for the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut; and member of the Board of Directors of the Ana Aqra Association.
Yahya is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Unheard Voices: What Syrian refugees need to return home (April 2018); editor of Contentious Politics in the Syrian Conflict: Opposition, Representation, and Resistance, co editor of Visualizing Secularism and Religion, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India and was the director and principal author of The National Human Development Report 2008–2009: Toward a Citizen’s State in Lebanon.
She Tweets: @mahamyahya.
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