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Andrew Arsan is a lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Cambridge. He has written widely on the history of modern Lebanon and its diaspora and on the cultural, intellectual, and political history of the modern Middle East. His first book, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014) examined the history of Lebanese settlement in West Africa. He is currently completing his second book - Entitled Lebanon: A Country in Fragments - it examines the politics of everyday life in post-2005 Lebanon, chronicling the ways in which the country’s inhabitants have sought to come to terms with life in a time of permanent crisis. Andrew is currently involved in an initiative run jointly by the Council for British Research in the Levant and the Overseas Development Institute to facilitate constructive dialogue between Middle East researchers and humanitarian workers.
Dr. Seth Anziska is a lecturer in Jewish-Muslim relations at University College London. He completed his PhD in International and Global History at Columbia University (2015) and earned his M. Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford (2008). His research focuses on Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and U.S. relations with the wider Middle East. Seth has been a visiting fellow at the American University of Beirut and a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut. He is currently working on a book which examines the emergence of the 1978 Camp David Accords and the consequences of international diplomacy in circumscribing Palestinian self-determination. A second project investigates the international history of the 1982 Lebanon War, drawing on newly released archival materials and oral history interviews across Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, the U.S., and the U.K. He has written for The New York Times, the Norwegian Peacebuilding Research Centre (NOREF), and is a non-resident visiting fellow of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP).
A Jordanian economist specializing in the Middle East, Riad has for over forty years trained, lectured, advised, and researched on a wide variety of socio-economic, business, and strategic topics such as good governance, migration, foreign aid, free trade agreements, post-crisis economies, strategic planning, cultural familiarization, conflict resolution, non-government organizations (NGOs) and sustainable development. His mother tongue is Arabic, and he is also fluent in English, with a strong working knowledge of French.
Dr Filippo Dionigi is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre. He is currently researching the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. His research often involves elite-level interviews with international organisations officers, members of government and diplomatic missions, as well as visits to refugee settlements and local administrative institutions.
His main research interests are international relations theories applied to the Middle Eastern regional context, state-refugee relations, and international politics and religion. Dionigi has carried out extensive fieldwork in several Arab countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia.
Dr Guita G. Hourani is the Director of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) at Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon. She has a Ph.D. in Humanities from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. Dr Hourani has provided expert opinion and verified country information related to citizenship, asylum seeking and refugee rights and conditions in Lebanon to many institutions including the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons in Belgium andUNHCR among others. She also served as a member of the Migration Expert Committee of the Directorate of Migrants at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the UNDP National Academic Working Group on Migration in Lebanon. Her recent work include: “Refugees of the Arab Spring: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon” with Sam van Vliet, published by the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies of the American University of Cairo, Egypt; “Transit Migration of Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon” and “Migration Intentions of Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon” with Kamal Abou Chedid and Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous for the International Organization for Migration (IOM); “Effect of Migration Policies on Human Rights in the European Neigbourhood: The Cases of Georgia, Kosovo and Lebanon” with Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous for the Directorate-General for External Policies: Policy Department, The European Parliament; “Insecurity, Migration and Return: the Case of Lebanon Following the Summer 2006 War” with Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, published by CARIM, Italy; “Gender Mainstreaming Forced Migration Research” with Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous in Al-Raida, published by the Lebanese American University (LAU) Press; and “Rapid Assessment of the Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Employment Profile and Implications on the Labour Markets”, funded by the International Labor Organization (ILO), Carthage Center for Research and Information (CCRI), Lebanon, June 2013. She has one published book entitled The Impact of the Summer 2006 War on Migration in Lebanon: Emigration, Re-Migration, Evacuation, and Returning.
Dr Suzanne Menhem holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences with sub-specialty in migration studies from the University of Poitiers (Migrinter) in France, as well as at the Department of Social Sciences at the Lebanese University in Lebanon. Her doctoral research project is entitled: “The New Migrants in Lebanon: Toward an Ethnicization of the Labor Market” which encompassed extensive stakeholders and expert interviews, as well as field survey and observation of immigrant labors from Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Ethiopia and Syria among others. She is currently Professor at the Lebanese University Lebanon. She is a member of Migrinter. Dr. Menhem is an expert in field survey management and implementation. She has managed several projects & field surveys concerning refugees.