The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University, in partnership with the American Druze Foundation (ADF) and the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut, are pleased to present an international conference which brings together leading researchers who have contributed to the field of middle eastern studies with particular reference to the Druze. The conference will focus exclusively on the political, social, and cultural evolution and political role of the Druze both in their countries of origin as well as in the diaspora.
The two-day conference will be held at Georgetown University on Friday, April 14 and Saturday, April 15, 2023, and will also be live streamed online. The conference will open on Friday, April 14, at 5 pm Washington time / midnight Beirut time, with a lecture by Professor Michael Provence, titled: “Druze Migrants, Near and Far Hawran and the Druze Towns, Villages, and Families.”
The conference will resume on Saturday, starting at 9 pm Washington time / 4 pm Beirut time.
Link to Friday’s live stream: https://youtube.com/live/At7z23yu3II?feature=share
Link to Saturday’s live stream: https://youtube.com/live/Cv2xRsCMGSo?feature=share
The conference program can be viewed via the following link:
The Druze in their Adopted Lands
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Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut bases its educational philosophy, standards, and practices on the American liberal arts model of higher education. A teaching-centered research university, AUB has more than 800 full-time faculty members and a student body of over 8000 students. AUB currently offers more than 120 programs leading to bachelor’s, master’s, MD, and PhD degrees. It provides medical education and training to students from throughout the region at its Medical Center that includes a full-service 365-bed hospital.
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