Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Overview

The Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights from Saint Joseph University of Beirut  includes research-oriented courses and practical trainings in the field of human rights and democratisation. It attracts students, researchers and experts from the region and beyond because of its multidisciplinary scope, its comparative approach and its action-oriented features.

Key facts

• It offers cross-regional mobility. While based in Beirut (Lebanon), it includes a semester in one of the following partner universities: Birzeit University (Palestine), Carthage University (Tunisia), and the International University of Rabat (Morocco). Students can also spend a semester in Egypt and Jordan.

• You will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and insights into the region, while building expertise in the master programme’s four streams: Human Rights, Democratic Governance, the Arab World and Applied Human Rights.

Curriculum

The programme is organised into four streams providing foundational and specialisation courses in different focus areas:

• Human Rights, Democratic Governance, the Arab World and Applied Human Rights.

• Courses are themselves structured to provide students with theoretical grounding, practical insights and a critical perspective on the programme’s core themes.