The History Department at the Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences – Branch 3 concluded the Arab-Ottoman Relations Conference by issuing a series of recommendations aimed at promoting joint academic research in Arab-Ottoman history.
The conference, sponsored by President Bassam Badran, opened with an official session attended by the Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon, Murat Lütem, the Dean of the FLHS, Dr. Soha El Samad, the Mufti of Akkar, Sheikh Zaid Bakkar Zakaria, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tripoli, al-Koura and Dependencies of the Church of Antioch, Ephrem Kyriakos, Sheikh Nader Jomaa representing the Mufti of Zahle and Bekaa, Sheikh Ali Al-Ghazawi, Dr. Sami Rida, representing MP Karim Kabbara, former MP Misbah El-Ahdab, Major General Ahmad Noman, representing the Commander of the Northern Military Region of the Lebanese Army, Brigadier General Bassem al-Ahmadieh, in addition to representatives of the deans of the Lebanese University and private universit