Think Tanks: Lebanon & Middle East

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs is an independent, research-based, policy-oriented institute. Inaugurated in 2006, the Institute aims to harness, develop, and initiate policy-relevant research in the Arab region. The Institute is committed to expanding and deepening knowledge production in and about the Arab region; and to creating a space for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among researchers, civil society actors and policy-makers. 

Our goals:

• Enhancing and broadening public policy-related debate and knowledge production in the Arab world and beyond;
• Better understanding the Arab world within shifting international and global contexts;
• Providing a space to enrich the quality of interaction among scholars, officials and civil society actors in and about the Arab world;
• Disseminating knowledge that is accessible to policy-makers, media, research communities and the general public.

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