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SUMMARY:Charles Malik in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1982) - Chloe Kattar
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CONTACT:Dr Nanna K L Kaalund
DESCRIPTION:Charles Malik (1906-1987) was a Lebanese diplomat and a dogged
  advocate of human rights at the United Nations. One of the signatories to
  the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948\,
  Malik succeeded Eleanor Roosevelt as chair of the Commission on Human Rig
 hts (HRC). Malik was also an academic philosopher who followed the teachin
 gs of Alfred North Whitehead and Martin Heidegger and held the chair in ph
 ilosophy at the American University of Beirut. The  presentation will expl
 ore the late career of Malik\, and his itinerary during the Lebanese Wars 
 of the 1970s and 1980s.
LOCATION:Online (ask organizers for link)
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