AUB - Graduate Program in Public Policy & International Affairs

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12 February 2020 • Beirut • I’m more than delighted to share my research and analysis on “The Iranian Protests among the Islamic Republic’s Triple Crisis” (partly subject of an upcoming The Brookings Institution/Brookings Doha Center Analysis Paper) with American University of Beirut (AUB)’s vibrant intellectual community. Organized by AUB - Graduate Program in Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) & the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) (IFI) and moderated by Rami Khouri (IFI) & Karim Makdisi (PPIA). This Wed. at noon at IFI, American University of Beirut (AUB).

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Our response to AUB administration for resuming classes tomorrow.

Dear PSPA Chair and Faculty Members,

It is with great regret that we learn about resuming classes tomorrow. We interpret this as a clear attempt to call us back from the streets into classrooms.

We would like to inform you that we have taken a collective decision (among the signatories are our allies from the international student body) not to attend any class, unless this class is within the demonstrations on the streets.

We understand that AUB wants to resume classes and this is a centralized decision that you need to abide by, but we hope that you too can understand our position and attempts to deconstruct the current brutal regime.

Furthermore, we stand by the call for a strike by a group of AUB staff and faculty and reiterate their core ideology that "any return to normalcy is a counter political act". This is not simply a protest, this is a revolution- and we cannot "return to normalcy" until all demands are met.

In Solidarity,

A group of PSPA and PPIA Students

Attention dear friends, the event has been postponed for further notics due to the recent developments in Lebanon.
Thank you and will keep you posted.

PPIA Society has been launched !✌️☺️
16 new students from different backgrounds and nationalities joined the PPIA graduate program this fall. PPIA faculty members, as well as continuing students, were pleased to welcome them today and to invite them to actively participate in the program's dynamics and the foundation of the PPIA society. We all look forward to bringing more diversity and opportunities to the PPIA program and to the AUB Community as a whole.

On 24 April 2019 the AUB Public Policy and International Affairs student body hosted the Chinese Ambassador H.E. Mr. Wang Kejian and discussed with him China's Belt & Road Initiative in the MENA region and Lebanon. The ambassador presented China's BRI and its challenges and the students had the opportunity to ask him questions and share their opinion.