Farid Elias El Khazen:

•   Holds an MA and a PhD in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins

    School  of Advanced International Studies. (USA)

•   Member of Lebanese Parliament, representing Kisrwan-Ftouh and Jbeil, June

     2005 – present. Elected on the “Change and Reform” list headed by General

     Michel Aoun.

•  Rapporteur of the Foreign Relations Commission and Member of the National 

    Education Commission in Lebanese Parliament, June 2005- present.

• Founder and president of NGO Mubadarat Lilinma’ (Development Initiatives).

  Founded in 2006, Mubadarat works on development issues in the fields of the

  Environment, Youth, Good Governance, Women Empowerment, and Education,

  both at the regional and national levels. Mubadarat’s recent activities include

  the holding of the first major conference on development in Kisrwan-Ftouh on

  March 7 and 8, 2008, in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

• Founding member of the Civic Center for National Initiative, 2007- present.

• Coordinator of the “Church and Politics” working group in the Maronite Church

   Synod that ended in 2006.

• Member of the Maronite League’s Political Committee, 2007- Present.

• Member of the Board of the Maronite Center for Documentation and Research,

   2004-present.

• Professor of Political Studies, American University of Beirut, 1988 – present.

• Former Chairperson of the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration,

  American University of Beirut, 2000-2005

• Former Editor of an academic Journal AL-Abhath, 1996 – 1998.

• Publications include the following books:

• The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976 (Harvard University Press and

   I.B.Tauris, 2000)

• Parliamentary Elections in Postwar Lebanon: Democracy With No choice (Dar al-   

  Nahar, 2000)

• Lebanon's Political Parties and the Limit of Democratic Practice (LCPS, 2002)

• The Communal Fact of National Identities: The Making and Politics of the 1943

  National Pact (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1991).

• Author of over 30 articles on Lebanese and Arab politics published in academic

  journals in Lebanon, Europe, and the United States.

• Frequent contributor to Lebanese and Arab dailies.

• Speaker and Participant in numerous conferences and workshops dealing with

   Lebanese and Middle East politics in Lebanon and abroad.