Facts and problems of society

Essays, research and propositions - Studies and reports - Articles, seminars and conferences

Essays, research and propositions

• « Observatory of the Public Matter in Lebanon – Macha’ »
   
  November 2006 - Charter of foundation of the association



• « The Maronite Church and the economic question »
   
  March 2005



• Analysis of the results of the municipal elections of may 2004
   
  June 2004



• Role of economic factors in change
   
  November 1999 - Editions of the Cultural Council for South Lebanon

  published in Tajdid al-fikr as-siyassi min ajli-t-taghyir (Renewal of political thought for change)



• “Preliminary analysis of the first municipal elections in Beirut in 1998”
   
  June 1998



• “Sectarianism in Lebanon – From the discursive and ideological functioning towards a setting of the question”
   
  June 1980 - Thesis in cultural anthropology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Studies and reports

• Financing and Political Economy of Higher Education in Lebanon
   
  26 December 2009 - study sponsored by the Economic Research Forum



• "Formulation of a Strategy for Social Development in Lebanon"
   
  September 2004 - Economic and Social Fund for Development (ESFD), currently hosted by the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)

  in accordance with the financing agreement between the Government of Lebanon and the European Union



• «Financing urban development and municipal resources, in relation to migrations, urbanisation and poverty »
   
  November 2000 - ESCWA



• « Republic of Lebanon, Poverty review »
   
  September 2000 - A World Bank Document

Articles, seminars and conferences

• "Managing the Lebanese Public Debt in the context of an International Financial Crisis"
   
  12 January 2009 - Conference in Beirut, January 12th 2009



• “Justice in the Mediterranean; for or against fiscal heavens – the experience of the Middle East”
   
  2005 - conference presented in the framework of the seminar on international fiscal justice, FSMed, held in Barcelona in 17-19 June 2005



• Intercultural mediation and the policy of the European Union
   
  September 2004 - Conference organized by the Observatory on Intercultural Dialogue at Saint-Joseph University and by the European Commission Delegation in Lebanon



• “Our interest in change”
   
  November 2003 - intervention in the frame of a video conference organized by the World bank, in November 2003, in French, under the title : « Dialogue on Governance and Development »



• «Macroeconomic policies and financial crises ; their influence on poverty »
   
  March 2002



• “The concept of crisis: aspects and causes of the malfunctions in the Lebanese economy”
   
  March 2002 - Conference at the Al-Hamra Club



• « At the economic level, how to produce, share and preserve ? »
   
  November 2001 - in «Actes du Colloque : Les valeurs, quels enjeux pour le 3ème millénaire ?», Beirut



• « The lebanese economy and its imbalances »
   
  September 2000 - Monde arabe Maghreb-Machrek, Special quarterly issue N°169, July-September 2000