Wednesday July 1, 2009 at 8pm
Language: Arabic
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  About the event |
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Sectarianism, as the basis of the socio-political system in Lebanon, has a history, meaning that it does not present itself to us in the same image from one stage to another. This also means that its crises do not repeat themselves, neither in their origins nor in their consequences, neither in the ways out of them nor in the horizon of solutions that they offer to us, that is despite the existence of similarities in the general sense between once crisis and another. This similarity is a closeness that can easily be discerned and that were one to ponder it would be of little use. In the heart of all of the contemporary crises that our country has witnessed figures prominently the problem of the production of a judicial or arbitrating authority in times of discord that could make the governing of the country possible again. This lecture aims to trace the ensuing shapes that this problem has taken over time and the solutions that it sets for itself. It concludes with the question of whether or not the current sectarian crisis can have a sectarian solution.
Ahmad Abdul Latif Beydoun was born in Bint Jbeil, Southern Lebanon in 1943. He was a professor of Sociology at the Lebanese University until his retirement in 2007. Beydoun has lectured on many topics in Lebanon as well as in approximately twenty other countries. He was a visiting professor at five French universities, a member of a number of educational boards and specialist committees, as well as a participant or head of various research projects.
To this day, Ahmad Beydoun has published about 15 books, most of which are in Arabic and some of which are in French. He has also contributed to a diverse range of collective publications. In subject, his work covers problems in Lebanese society and Lebanon’s political system as well as issues tied to the Arabic language and Arab culture. Beydoun has also published his own works of literature. His latest book La Dégénérescence du Liban ou la Réforme orpheline was published by Actes Sud in Paris in 2009. |
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