Please join us for the next Badaro Talks lecture The Lebanese War (1975–1990) between “Civil” and “Global”, given by historian Dima de Clerck.

When: Thursday 12th of February at 6pm.

Where: The FIME premises at 30 Badaro Street, Chaoui Building, 5th floor meeting room

You can also attend online by registering for the event.

RSVP: We kindly request you to RSVP through this link or by sending an email to institute@fime.fi at the latest on Wednesday 11th of February.

Abstract

Since 1975, the Lebanese have been confronted with a multiform conflict in which a multitude of local, regional and global stakes and actors are entangled. What is civil war the name of? And why is it always so difficult to express and articulate? The purpose of this talk is to show how the Lebanese war is both a civil war in the strict sense (an internal war) and a ”civil war” according to the definition accepted today in academic circles, and which integrates its regional and global ramifications, in order to better debate its nature and its denomination, more in line with the representations of its actors and victims, for whom the term ”civil war” remains a source of shame and frustration.

Bio

Dima de Clerck holds a doctorate in History from the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, with a focus on Druze-Christian relations and issues of memory and reconciliation. She is an associate researcher at the French Institute (IFPO), a recurring visiting professor at universities in France, and teaches in France and Lebanon. The author of numerous articles and the award-winning book Le Liban en guerre (2020, reissued in 2025, by Gallimard), she has co-edited: 1860, History and Memory of a Conflict and Liban 1975-1990: La guerre dans le rétroviseur, and continues her research on wars in the Middle East.