"Coping with Political Deadlock and the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: Exploring (Non) Policy-Making"
The speaker is Carmen Geha, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the American University of Beirut and Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard. Carmen Geha is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the American University of Beirut and a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center inHarvard University for spring 2018. Carmen's research focuses on the influence of political systems on the prospects for reform and civil society in the MENA region.She is particularly interested in power-sharing politics, women¿s political participation, and protest movements. Carmen is author of "Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya" (Routledge, 2016). Carmen has had almost a decade of experience in development work with grassroots movements, governments, UN agencies and NGOs in Myanmar, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. She has advised and consulted international and local organizations on issues including social cohesion, constitutional development, voter education and women political participation. Sponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the American University of Beirut Collaborative Initiative.