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The Centre for Lebanese Studies
A research center in Lebanon that aims to produce relevant research in a collaborative, respectful, critical, valuable, equitable and transparent manner.
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Curriculum Reform & Pedagogy
Strengthening Research Capacity
History Education & Healing the wounds of history
Research Methodologies – Knowledge Production & Power Dynamics
Alexandra Asseily
Alexandra Asseily together with her husband George Asseily helped to found the Centre for Lebanese Studies in 1984. She has been on the board of governors since then and a member of the Research committee for many years.
She is on the Board of the Guerrand Hermes Foundation for Peace, on the council of Ara Pacis, Rome and a member of the Leadership Council at Harvard Divinity School and a former member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.
In 1978 she was co-ordinator of International Aid Organisations on the Higher Relief Committee Lebanon after the first Israeli invasion. In 2001, she created the Silk Museum in Bsous – Lebanon with her husband George Asseily. As witness to the civil war in Lebanon, Alexandra Asseily decided to explore her own responsibility for war and peace and became a psychotherapist. In 1998 she initiated Hadiquat as Samah, the Garden of Forgiveness in Central Beirut.
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