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This paper explores how the participation of men in Beirut within the exclusively gay-male dating web site GayRomeo.com is framed by identity politics and practices of national and ethnic membership, masculinity, and sexuality in post-civil war Beirut. Such intermingling of the sexualized meanings and queer desires within GayRomeo.com with local politics and practices affords new forms of self-description and embodied practice online as a queer Lebanese subject. Using context analysis to explore manifestations of selfhood within GayRomeo.com, as well as secondary literature about homosexuality in Beirut, I present how local politics and practices are present within user profiles constructed according to a series of profile categories consisting of character traits, interests, and demographic information. Through their profiles, users engage in embodied practices of masculinity and sexuality that influence subjectivity via their online visibility.

Sponsored by the Regional Office for Education in the Arab states, a Seminar for women leaders responsible for the training of rural Arab women, was held at the UNESCOCenter, Sports City Avenue, Beirut, 28 October - 7 November 1980.

A regional conference on "Gender and Communication Policy" in the Middle East and North Africa was jointly organized in Beirut, Lebanon, by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), at the Lebanese American University, from November 9 to November 12, 1999. Thirty participants from eight countries attended theConference.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, author and editor of two feminist classics, Women and the Family in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (both publishedby the University of Texas Press), visited Lebanon in June with her husband Robert, a renowned anthropologist, to update their book, The Arab World: Personal Encounters (Anchor Press). The book, first begun in 1956, when they initially visited Beirut as young academics, is a personal narrative of their travels in the region, travels which took them to Egypt (1959, 1983 and 1995), to Morocco (1971 , 1983 and 1995), as well as to Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Yemen, and thePalestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. The updatedversion of the book will conclude with an article on post-war Lebanon.

For the support of creativity and culture; for giving back to Beirut her role as a Lebanese and Arab cultural center; for the creation of a polyvalent scene in which plays, films, children's programs, musical concerts, poetic recitals, art exhibitions and conferences, will be offered.

In response to the takeover of the American Embassy in Iran in 1979, President Jimmy Carter issued two executive orders freezing assets owned by the Iranian government and by Iranian citizens and held by U.S. financial institutions. The case examines an incident that arose following the implementation of these orders and examines (1) the use of global businesses as instruments of foreign policy; (2) issues of cross-cultural communication and trust; and (3) crisis management. The case may be useful for classes in international business, in negotiation, and in conflict resolution.