Health politics in Lebanon and Palestine: Beyond the crisis narratives

8:30-9:00 am: Welcoming participants

9:00-9:15 am: Introduction: Samirah Jarrar (Aix-Marseille Université) & Sahar Aurore Saeidnia (Institut français du Proche-Orient), Engaging a Comparative, Empirical and Contextualised Research of Health Politics.

9:15-11:00 am: Session 1– Temporalities, Spaces & Actors of Health Politics.

Chair : Samirah Jarrar, Aix-Marseille Université

• Zeina Amro, Institute of Community and Public Health/Birzeit University, Approaching Mental Health and Health Systems under Continuous and Recurring Emergencies.
• Philippe Bourmaud, Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes, A Crisis of Health or Empire? Breaks and Continuities in Healthcare from Ottoman to Colonial Times.
• Layth Hanbali, Institute of Community and Public Health/Birzeit University & Weeam Hammoudeh, Institute of Community and Public Health/Birzeit University, Role and History of Palestinian Social Movements in Health.
• Tala Alaeddine, Public Works Studio, Health at the Intersection of Spatial, Economic, and Political Dimensions in Lebanon.

11:00-11:15 am: Coffee break

11:15 am-13:00 pm: Session 2 – Fragmentations and Political Economies of Health Inequalities

Chair : Sahar Aurore Saeidnia, Institut français du Proche-Orient

• Abdallah Muhieddine, Economics and Development Laboratory—Research Center at the Institute of Social Sciences, Lebanese University, The Coping Mechanism and the Quality of PHCC Services during the Economic Crisis.
• Samirah Jarrar, Aix-Marseille University: Colonial Health and Organ Transplants in Palestine: between Destruction, Exploitation and Symbolic Domination.
• Nizar Hariri, Research Chair « Environnements urbains au Proche-Orient »: Public Insurance no Longer Available: the Lebanese Social Protection System in Times of Crisis.
• Rim Nehme, American University of Beirut, A Snapshot on Sustainability, Care Continuity, and Access to Mental Health Services from Lebanese Primary Healthcare

13:00-14:30 pm: Lunch break

14:30-16:15 pm: Session 3 – Wars, Displacements, and Health Politics

Chair : Samirah Jarrar, Aix-Marseille Université

• Livia Wick, American University of Beirut, How to Study People in Crises: Reflections on Recent Case Studies from the Middle East.
• Lamia Moghnieh, University of Copenhagen, Humanitarian Psychiatry, and Re-humanization: Israeli Violence and the Trauma/Resilience Model.
• Christiane Saliba, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University & Riwa Khalifeh, UCLouvain-Brussels, Health Inequalities in a Country in Crisis: the Case of Displaced Syrians in Lebanon.

16:15-16:45 pm: Coffee break

16:45-18:00 pm: Roundtable – Producing, Sharing & Disseminating Knowledge about Health Politics in the Region

Chair : Sahar Aurore Saeidnia, Institut français du Proche-Orient

• Michèle Kosremelli Asmar, Higher Institute of Public Health, Saint Joseph University of Beirut
• Christiane Saliba, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University
• Tala Alaeddine, Public Works Studio

• Rima Zaqout, Institute for Palestine Studies

18 :00: Drinks and refreshments