
                        
                      Emigration Liban-Portugal-Brésil, Roberto Khatlab, Congrès       International Guerre Péninsulaire, Académie Portugaise de Histoire,       Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, Portugal, 7-9 November 2007 
                      Diaspora Migration and Homeland Relations, Guita Hourani, Migration and Refugee  Movements in the Middle East and North-Eastern Africa, The Forced  Migration and Refugee Studies Program (FMRS), American University in Cairo  (AUC), Egypt, 23-25 October 2007 
                      Les relations Brésil-Liban, histoire       et émigration,       Roberto Khatlab, Université de l’Etat de Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Ri       ode Janeiro, Brésil, 30 August 2007 (by invitation of the Brasilian government)
                      Les relations entre le Brésil et  Liban: histoire, émigration, culture et       économie, Roberto       Khatlab, 
                        Séminaire d’échanges académiques Brésil-Liban, Ministère       de l’Éducation du Brésil, Université du Brasília, 
                        DF, Brésil, 27-28 August       2007 (by invitation of the Brasilian government)
                      Managing Migration, Saving Brain       Drain: The Case of Lebanon, Guita Hourani, Migration as an 
                        Obstacle to Social and       Economic Development and “Brain Drain”, The Directorate of Migrants,       Ministry 
                        of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO       Palace, Beirut, Lebanon,       28 June 2007
                      Seductive Identifications: Parody       and Power in Loubna Haikal’s Seducing Mr. Maclean, 
                        Norman Nikro, Politics, Culture and Lebanese       Diaspora, Lebanese American University,       Beirut,       24-27 May 2007
                      Engendering Diaspora Masculinities:       The Impact of forced Migration on Male Identity in 
                        Lebanese Network       Communities, Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora, 
                        Lebanese       American University,       Beirut,       24-27 May 2007
                      Forced Migration and Masculinity:       The Impact of the Summer War 2006 on Lebanese Male Identity, 
                        Guita Hourani and Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Migration,       Islam and Masculinities: Transforming Emigration 
                          and Immigration Societies,       Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg,       Germany,       11 April 2007
                      Diaspora and E-Commerce: The Globalization of  Lebanese Baklava, Guita Hourani, Eighth Mediterranean Research Meeting,  Workshop 06: Between Society and the Market: Novel Approaches to the Business  History of the Middle East, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-25 March 2007 
                      Les Libanais au Brésil, hier et       aujourd’hui, Roberto       Khatlab, Musée National, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, 
                        20 March 2007
                      Présence libanaise dans tous les       Etats du Brésil,       Roberto Khatlab, Liga Cultural Árabe-Brasileira, 
                        São Paulo, 5       August 2006
                      Absentee Voting in a Global Perspective: Working towards an       Absentee Voting Law for Lebanon, 
                        E. Sensenig-Dabbous, K. Fakih, G. Labaki and G. Hourani,       Report presented to the National Electoral 
                        Commission University Editorial       Board, Lebanon,       2005 
                        
                        [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/Working_toward_an_Absentee_Voting_Law_for_Lebanon_CC.pdf]
                    
                      Présentation du Lebanese       Emigration Research Center – LERC/NDU, Roberto Khatlab, Conférence 
                        au Núcleo de       Estudos Libanês – NEL, Université Fédéral de Santa Maria - UFSM, Rio       Grande do Sul, 
                        Brésil, 20 November 2005
                      In  Defence of Faith-Based Politics: Reassessing the Role of Abrahamic Religions  within 
                        European Communities,  Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Islam and Europe – Mixed or Separated, 
                        AEGEE-Bucharest, Bucharest,   Romania, 3-7  October 2005
                      Transnational       Lebanese Communities Network: Using Traditional, Alternative and 
                        ICT-Based       Methodologies to Study Middle Eastern Migration Networks, Guita Hourani and 
                        Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, The Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting,       Robert 
                        Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, The European University       Institute, Montecatini Terme, Florence, 
                        Italy, March 2005 
                      The Role  of the EU in Building Dialogue between Islam and the West,Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, 
                        Avrupa  Ogrencileri Forumu: Islam and Europe - Eye Contact, AEGEE-Ankara, Ankara,  Turkey, 1-6 October 2004
                      Rationale Behind the “Whiteness” of the  Syrian-Lebanese in South Africa and the United States 
                        of America in Two Court  Cases, Guita Hourani, The Eleventh International Congress of the 
                          Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África on Integracion y Diversidad: Asia Y Africa En 
                            Transformation (Integration and Diversity: Asia and Africa in Transformation), Mexico City,  Mexico, 12-15 
                        November 2003
                      Lebanese  and Austria Youth Discover  Stereotyping: A Self-Reflective and Interactive Process, 
                        Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, Stereotyping of  Arabs and Muslims in the Media Targeting Children and Youth, 
                        European  Social Action Network Brussels/Diversity Centre Salzburg,  Dortmund, Germany, 4-6 July 2003
                      Dès 1790, il est fait mention d’un grand commerçant de Zahlé établi à Rio de Janeiro.
  
                        L’empereur Dom Pedro II s’installe, en 1876, à l’hôtel « Belle Vue » à Beyrouth : les Libanais découvrent le Brésil.
                         L’Orient-Le Jour, le 5 Novembre 2007  Par Roberto KHATLAB 
                        [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/les_Libanais_découvrent_le_Brésil.pdf]
                        
                        Le grand parcours des «Brasilebaneses», le succès de Jose Zaglul au Costa Rica, les liens ancestraux avec la France.
  
                        Les Libanais dans le monde
                        Notre dossier bimensuel.
                         L’Orient-Le Jour, Le 3 Decembre 2007
                        [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/Les_Libanais_dans_le _monde.pdf]
                      Amyr       Klink, Grand Navigateur en Solitaire, Roberto       Khatlab, L’Orient-Le Jour, 5       November 2007, p. 5
                      [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/Amyr_Klink.pdf]
                      Saga       libanaise: Trois Vagues d’Emigration pour Six Millions de Libanais, Roberto       Khatlab, L’Orient-Le Jour, 19       November 2007, p. 5
                      [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/La_saga_brésilienne.pdf]
                      The Maronite  Eremitical Tradition: A Contemporary Revival, Guita Hourani and Antoine Habchi, The Heythrop Journal 45  (4), 2004, pp. 451- 465 (Refereed)
                      [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/heyj/2004/00000045/00000004/art00004]
                      Europe - A Space for Testimony? The Political Culture of Christianity       and Islam in the 21st Century, Eugene       Sensenig-Dabbous, Religion and Culture after Modernity, Romanian       Roman Catholic St. Theresa Theological Institute, Sinaia, Romania, 9-10       June 2004.
                        Conference papers were published  by Magdalena Dumitrana and Vladimir Peterca in the series of the Archiepiscopia  Romano-Catolica de Bucuresti and the Council for Research in Values and  Philosophy, Washington DC.
                      [http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/Europe-A_Space_for_Testimony.pdf]
                      Communities in Conflict -       Communities of Understanding: Migration from the Middle East/North Africa       (MENA) to the European Union, Eugene       Sensenig-Dabbous, Sources of Conflict and Prospects for Peace in the       Mediterranean Basin, Peace Studies Conference in Honour of Giorgio La       Pira – 1904/2004, University of Messina/Central Connecticut State       University, Messina, Italy, 17-21 March 2004.
                        Published by Marcello Saija.
                        [www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/publications/Communities.pdf]