يحل عضو اللجنة التنفيذية في “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” حارث سليمان ضيف تلفزيون لبنان، في حوار سياسي شامل، يوم الأربعاء 30 ايار 2012، الساعة الواحدة والنصف بعد الظهر.

The US Department of State organizes its annual International Visitor Leadership Program, from May 28th through June 16th, 2012.

The program pursues the following objectives:

- To examine the political environment in the U.S. during the presidential primaries, the domestic and international issues that influence the American electorate, the role of the media, and polling;

- To highlight the influence of new and social media in political campaigns and the elections in the U.S.;

- To explore the influence of the media, think tanks, lobbying organizations and political groups in foreign policy formulation;

- To examine leadership strategies and skills used to manage political challenges while balancing divergent social demands and interests;

- To explore how public-private partnerships foster political and civic engagement; and

- To identify the importance of community service and volunteerism in America.

Participants will vist US public and private institutions as well as leading civil society organizations in Washington D.C., New York, Sacramento, Manchester – New Hampshire, and Tampa – Florida.

Two members of Tajaddod Youth are taking part in this special program: Nassim Abi Ghanem and Rami Shamma.

يحل نائب رئيس “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” مصباح الاحدب ضيف برنامج “كلام بيروت” على تلفزيون المستقبل، يوم الجمعة 25 أيار 2012 الساعة التاسعة صباحاً.

يحل نائب رئيس “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” مصباح الأحدب ضيف برنامج “لقاء الاحد” على إذاعة لبنان الحر (93.3 FM) تستضيفه الإعلامية جيزيل خوري، يوم الاحد 20 أيار 2012 الساعة التاسعة صباحاً.

يحل نائب رئيس “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” مصباح الأحدب ضيف برنامج “بيروت اليوم” على شاشة MTV، يوم السبت 19 أيار 2012 الساعة الثالثة بعد الظهر.

يحل نائب رئيس “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” مصباح الاحدب ضيف برنامج “الماغازين السياسي” من تقديم الإعلامي يقظان التقي، على إذاعة الشرق (88.3 FM)، يوم الجمعة 17 أيار 2012 الساعة التاسعو صباحاً.

يحل نائب رئيس “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” مصباح الاحدب ضيف برنامج “الحدث” على شاشة تلفزيون الجديد، يوم الخميس 17 أيار 2012 الساعة العاشرة صباحاً.

يحل أمين سر “حركة التجدد الديمقراطي” د. أنطوان حداد ضيف برنامج “بين السطور“، تقدمه الاعلامية إلديكو إليا على إذاعة لبنان الحر (102.5 FM)، يوم الأحد 13 أيار، الساعة 8:30 صباحاً.

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Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people were injured, internally displaced or migrated from the country in search for safer grounds. Until today, tens of thousands are still missing. Lebanese attitudes vis-à-vis the war have been paradoxical ever since the the 1989 Taif agreement that officially ended the conflict and the 1991 amnesty law that forgave all crimes committed during the war in the hope of focusing on reconstruction. On one hand, the scars of the civil war are still present; sectarianism still prevails in people’s mentalities, and political parties that played a strong role in the war through their militias still dominate the country’s political scene. On the other hand, there has been no memory work to heal the wounds of the war and lay the foundations for a sustainable reconciliation process based on truth and forgiveness. Lebanese students do not even have a common history curriculum which presents a unified narrative of the country’s past. The only stories about the war come from their parents or their peers, who very often provide them with particular perspectives that do not take into account other people’s versions of the same events. Civil war narratives also often ignored the heavy socioeconomic and psychological suffering of women, due to the disappearance or death of male relatives during the war, the scars of which are still fresh today. More than 20 years after the end of the civil war, these aspects of Lebanese political life are still lingering in the population’s collective memory and are blocking the process of social healing required after a violent conflict such as the Lebanese civil war.

We believe that for real reconciliation to take place one has to be confronted with other narratives of the war than one’s own. In Lebanon the narratives are passed down by family and community and, particularly with young people who didn’t live the war themselves, are limited to one inherited version of events. Our hope is that knowing and trying to understand each other’s perspective on the past is the first step of working together on creating a common future.

What?

An interactive exhibition about the Lebanese Civil War hosted by Tajaddod Youth, in cooperation with Radikal Ungdom, the Social Liberal Youth of Denmark. Located in a stunning warehouse setting, the exhibition will showcase front pages of newspapers covering the most important days of the Lebanese civil war. Participants are asked to express what these events mean to them as they walk through the exhibition by writing and sticking Post-It™ notes next to the pages, creating a mosaic of perspectives.

This is an invitation for you share the stories that you’ve been told or the experiences that you yourself have gone through in an open anonymous space. This as an opportunity to get to know new sides of the civil war or maybe even new sides of an event that you have a personal relation to.

When?

12, 13, 14 May between 10am and 9pm

Where?

Solea V, Jisr el Wati, Sin el Fil (Facing the Beirut Art Center and near the Jaguar building)

Who?

This event is organised by Tajaddod Youth an emerging Lebanese Youth political movement and Radikal Ungdom, the youth branch of the Danish liberal democratic party.

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يحل عضو “حركة التجدد الديموقراطي” زياد الصائغ ضيف برنامج “حديث لبنان” على شاشة ANB يوم الجمعة 4 أيار 2012، الساعة 10:30 صباحاً.