{"id":2359,"date":"2020-07-22T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bi3a.com\/Catholics\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:17:52","slug":"h-e-ghassan-salameh-former-lebanese-minister-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/h-e-ghassan-salameh-former-lebanese-minister-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E. Ghassan Salameh, Former Lebanese Minister of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ghassan Salameh<\/strong>\u00a0Born in 1951 in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Ghassan Salam\u00e9 has a PhD in Literature and a PhD in Politics at Paris I University, a master\u2019s degree in Lebanese and French law, and a number of qualifications in the arts.<\/p>\n

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Career:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ghassan Salam\u00e9 taught international relations at the American University of Beirut and Saint Joseph University in Beirut and, later, at the University of Paris. He was also Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General (2003\u20132006) and Political Advisor to the UN Mission in Iraq (2003).<\/p>\n

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In 2000-2003, he was Lebanon\u2019s Minister of Culture, as well as Chairman and Spokesman of the Organization Committee for the Arab Summit (March 2002) and of the Francophone Summit (October 2002) in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Ghassan Salam\u00e9 is currently professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po (Paris) and the founding Dean of its Paris School of International Affairs – PSIA.<\/p>\n

He is presently Vice-Chairman of the Board of the International Crisis Group (Brussels) and sits on the board of the Open Society Institute (New York), the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a few other not-for-profit organizations. He is the founding chairman of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (Beirut).<\/p>\n

Ghassan Salam\u00e9 is the author of (inter alia)\u00a0Quand l\u2019Am\u00e9rique refait le monde<\/em>;\u00a0Appels d’empire: ing\u00e9rences et r\u00e9sistances \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de la mondialisation<\/em>;\u00a0State and Society in the Arab Levant<\/em>, and editor (inter alia) of Democracy Without Democrats: Politics of Liberalization in the Arab and Muslim World; The Politics of Arab Integration and The Foundations of the Arab State. His essays have been published in Foreign Policy, Revue fran\u00e7aise de science politique, European Journal of International Affairs, The Middle East Journal and other scholarly journals.<\/p>\n

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Selected Public Speeches and Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Les raisons des r\u00e9voltes arabes. Le Monde, 8 f\u00e9vrier 2011.<\/p>\n

– Ghassan Salam\u00e9, poisson pilote des \u00e9lites \u00e9mergentes\u00a0: l\u2019ancien conseiller sp\u00e9cial de Kofi Annan, alors secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019ONU, dirige aujourd\u2019hui la nouvelle Paris School of International Affairs de Sciences-Po. La Croix, October 21, 2010.<\/p>\n

– Discours \u00e0 l\u2019ambassade du Qatar \u00e0 Paris. C\u00e9r\u00e9monie honorant Hubert V\u00e9drine et Ghassan Salam\u00e9, September 22, 2010.<\/p>\n

– Middle Easts, old and new, presented at the Oil and Money Conference, London, October 21, 2009.<\/p>\n

– A Clash of Norms, speech at the UN General Assembly on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York, December 10, 2008.<\/p>\n

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He was given the Phenix (Beirut), ADELFI (Paris) and Al-Idrissi (Rome, 2012) awards, and the Medaille of the Academie Francaise (2003), made Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur (France, 2004) and named ‘The Arab Cultural Personality of the Year’ (UAE, 2004).<\/p>\n

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Memberships and Affiliations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Chairman, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture<\/p>\n

– Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group<\/p>\n

– Board Member, International Peace Institute<\/p>\n

– Board Member, Open Society Foundations<\/p>\n

– Board Member, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue<\/p>\n

– Board Member, Arab Anti-Corruption Organization<\/p>\n

– Board Member, Bibliotheca Alexandrina<\/p>\n

– Co-founder of The Euro-Mediterranean Chair, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy<\/p>\n

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