Beirut
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation Beirut Office is focused on Lebanon and it's people. Regional and local turmoil makes the work of the foundation in this country challenging, forcing our office in Beirut to constantly adapt to new social and political changes.In Lebanon, our main objective is to support Lebanese start-ups, civil society organizations and liberal political parties while raising awareness about political education, female empowerement and durable development.
News
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Liberal Alphabet T: The Treasure Trove
On September 14th, we hosted our twentieth Liberal Alphabet event “Liberal Alphabet T: The Treasure Trove; what is concealed beneath the Lebanese Offshore?” at Beit Beirut.
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Citizenship Summer School 2022
More than 80 students from different universities and different backgrounds came together, from August 23 to August 26, to learn more about the environmental and economic challenges in Lebanon under the umbrella of the 3rd edition of the Citizenship Summer School organized by FNF in partnership with the Student life office at Université Saint Joseph.
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L3aba Siyese Game night
In efforts to introduce the Lebanese public to L3aba siyese, FNF along with the creator of the game, Tracy Saad, organized a game night at the Ark in Hamra where we had an inter-generational audience from cities all over Lebanon trying out the game over drinks and bites.
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Value & Values Award 2022
The V&V award is an essay writing competition for high school and university students launched by Rakiza in partnership with FNF Beirut office and Injaz Lebanon. This years finalists and their families were invited to an award ceremony at the Sursock Museum where the winners for both school and university category were announced in a nice atmosphere of debate around the economic concepts at the heart of the discussion.
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Cryptocurrency program
We’ve wrapped up the Cryptocurrency program, organized in collaboration with GloryThink. This in-person four-week course taught participants all about financial literacy, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and trading.
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Political Reforms through AI Summer School
We are super proud to wrap up the third edition of our ''Summer School for Social Innovation''. We tackled the importance of AI, Data Science and technological advancement in the Political Reform and Public Institution sector.
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Round table #1 for The Way Out of the Economic Crises: A Sectoral Study
In the context of a partnership between FNF and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies under the title The Way Out of the Economic Crises: A Sectoral Study, the first of 5 closed experts’ roundtables was organized on “The Way Forward for the Knowledge Economy and Education Sector in Lebanon”.
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International Academy - Scholarship holders
The International Academy is more than just a study trip. It allows the scholarship holders to participate in the work of the foundation on site and is a tremendous eye-opener for country- and region-specific background knowledge. After a preparatory seminar in Berlin, which introduced them to the history of this wonderful country, the group was to travel to Lebanon at the end of May.
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TWILY Gamification
Once again, we kick off a new round of Twily Gamification, this time in the Metn district!
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Berlin Visiting Program
BERLIN HERE WE ARE!! We are super excited to share with you, some pictures from our Model Youth Parliament Winners Visiting Program!
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Model Good Governance
March has been quite a busy month for our Model Good Governance participants. Two training sessions took place at LAU Beirut and Byblos campuses, whereby students discussed conflict analysis and resolution, corruption, SDGs, and many more topics. The training was then followed by the mock simulation, and a Final Conference during which our delegates simulated the Ministry of Labor, representing local and international NGOs to reform the Kafala system and more!
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Model Youth Parliament 2022
For the 6th consecutive year, we are proud to announce the launch, execution and wrap up of our Model Youth Parliament!
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Cabriolet Film Festival - EXIST Graffiti Workshop
As part of the launch activities of the 14th edition of Cabriolet Film Festival, we have organized in partnership with Laboratoire d’Art a distinctive workshop with the graffiti artist Exist.
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Khaled El Deek
Khaled el Deek is a trainer specialized in development and management projects. He took part in our academy's activities back in 2017
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Females Lead In Politics (FLIP)
Frauen in die Politik! Aus Ermangelung weiblicher Partizipation in der libanesischen politischen Landschaft haben wir gemeinsam mit der Organisation AFAAL ein Programm ins Leben gerufen, das ambitionierten Frauen die Chance gibt, mit namhaften Trainern an einer Karriere in der Öffentlichkeit zu arbeiten.
Social Media
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Yesterday, our delegation from Lebanon and Jordan visited the EEAS in Brussels, where they got to meet with European diplomats who work on the MENA region. They then met with MEP Samira Rafaela at the European parliament and had an insightful conversation about the challenges that women still face in the political sphere and how to elevate the fight for women’s political representation, both in Europe and the MENA region. We wrapped up the day with a beautiful guided tour in the heart of the city center.
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4 full days of expert lectures, interactive discussions and a lot of fun. We had a great time at the 3rd edition of our Citizen Summer School. More than 80 students gathered at USJ to learn about environmental and economic challenges in Lebanon. Here are some of our highlights! A big thank you to our participants, to our great experts and @vieetudianteusj . We look forward to seeing you all again for next year's summer school. #fnflebanon #summerschool #CSS #usj
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Yesterday, our delegation arrived to Brussels and met with the brilliant team behind The Alliance of Her and got to learn more about the work that they do to increase liberal women's political participation in Europe. The delegation also met with Jules Maaten, regional director at FNF Brussels, and discussed relations between Europe and the MENA region
