25/10/2023 – Webinar Tarikh – History of Lebanon

Organizing partner(s) or institutions

The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Scientific summary

This webinar series explores the history of development and energy/electricity in mid-century Lebanon, the evolution of education in post-Ottoman Lebanon, as well as the financial impact of migration on the 20th-century Middle East North Africa region. Experts on the history of migration and Lebanon discuss their scientific research with Khayrallah Center Director Dr. Akram Khater.

Date

September 2023 – December 2023

Location

Zoom

Nature of the event

This is an ongoing webinar series recorded live once a month via Zoom.

Language

English

Summary and/or programme

Tarikh is a webinar series where the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Director Dr. Akram Khater explores the history of Lebanon and its diaspora through conversations with outstanding scholars. In these discussions we hope to gain deeper insights into Lebanese history in all of its dimensions be they political, economic, cultural, environmental, or social.

• Wednesday, October 25, 2023 1 pm to 2 pm :

  History of Lebanon: A Conversation With Hicham Safieddine

  Hicham Safieddine, is the Canada research chair in the history of the modern Middle East and Associate Professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He will present a lecture titled “Lebanon’s Financial Fault Lines.” Lebanon is often described as a country of sects, but it is also a country of banks. What would the history of Lebanon look like if banks, rather than sects, were the primary category of analysis? This is what Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon, a book that Safieddine wrote, seeks to answer. In doing so, the book speaks to broader questions about nationhood, sovereignty and colonialism and economic development and ideology in Lebanon in relation to regional and global forces.

• Tuesday, September 26, 2023 12 pm to 1 pm:

  Lessons in History: Schooling and Education in Modern Lebanon

  Please join the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for a conversation with Nadya Sbaiti, visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University in Qatar. She specializes in the social and cultural histories of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on Lebanon. Sbaiti will discuss “Lessons in History: Schooling and Education in Modern Lebanon.” Her lecture is part of Tarikh, a series that features experts in Lebanese diaspora studies. The experts share stories that give participants insight into the history of Lebanon from the perspective of migrants in the global diaspora.

Media

This is a recorded Webinar series published via the Khayrallah Center YouTube channel and the Voices of the Mahjar podcast.

Names of the organisers

• Dr. Akram Khater
• Bailey Brown

Link to the Internet page where the activity is presented and email address of contact

• Each event is posted via the Khayrallah Center Events page every month.
• You can contact Bailey Brown at bbrown6@ncsu.edu for registration details.