Archives: Lebanon Working Group

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Reflection on the Education of Refugee Children: Beyond Reification and Emergency

What is our understanding of "refugee education"? How does education help refugees prepare for an intellectual and better life? What is missing in refugee education? This recent publication by Maurice Crul and LERRN Partner Maha Shuayb in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees highlights three significant points regarding refugee education. First,... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Dr. Maha Shuayb: How a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education

Dr. Maha Shuayb, Director of the Centre for Lebanese Studies and Lead Investigator of LERRN’s Lebanon Working Group, has published a very timely article in openDemocracy that raises critical questions relating to refugee education. Refugee education has been a growing global priority in recent years. It was one of the core themes at the... More

Monday, June 22, 2020

New report on Education and COVID-19 in Jordan

The Centre for Lebanese Studies, with the support of LERRN, has released a new report on how education for refugees and nationals in Jordan has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and making recommendations for future responses. In Jordan, more than 2 million students across public, private, and United Nations Relief and Works Agency... More

Friday, February 14, 2020

Youth Engagement in Lebanon: Christina Klassen’s Research Placement Experience

By Christina Klassen “Youth engagement.” This compelling but vaguely defined term drew me to apply for the LERRN Youth Engagement research placement in Lebanon in the summer of 2019. I submitted my application more out of a curiosity to understand why the local team in Lebanon had chosen this as an area of research... More

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