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A new article by Prof. Marwa Daoudy for the journal Global Environmental Politics…

At Lebanon's centennial, CCAS faculty, students, and alums provide context on contemporary events in the country.

CCAS was honored to host two American Druze Foundation Research Fellows during the 2020-2021 academic year: Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish and Dr. Daniel Neep. Abu-Rish is an historian of the…

ADF Fellow Ziad Abu-Rish takes a deeper look at COVID-19's spread in Lebanon and how it intersects with the country's ongoing crises…

Celebrating the class of 2021 in person and virtually…

By Susan Douglass This spring CCAS Education Outreach continued to use a virtual format for all of its programming, which included annual events, collaborations with other university centers and partners,…

Alum Nadya Sbaiti writes about the sci fi course she teaches in Lebanon became surprisingly prescient during the events of 2020.

An interdisciplinary panel discussion on the continuities and key shifts in Lebanon over the last century of its existence as a state…

MAAS student Wissam Fakih explores how Lebanon’s triple crises—economic collapse, the Beirut port explosion, and the COVID-19 pandemic—have impacted the education of thousands of Syrian refugee children living in the…

MAAS student Laila Jadallah writes about how artists and galleries in Beirut were impacted by and are responding to the port explosion.