Department of Anthropology and Global Civil Society Programme public lecture
Date: Wednesday 27 January 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Dr Omar Nashabe
Chair: Professor Christine Chinkin
The lecture places the crime – the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri – in its socio-political context, considers the process of the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2007, focuses on the structural properties of the tribunal, and closes by posing the central unanswered questions facing the same.
Omar Nashabe received a PhD in Criminal Justice; he serves as editor of the justice section of al-Akhbar newspaper and advisor on human rights and prisons to the Lebanese government. In 2007 he published The Roumieh Prison, if it could speak [in Arabic] with Dar as-Saqi, Beirut/London.
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