Authors

Eric Verdeil and Ghaleb Faour

Eric Verdeil is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Sciences Po and researcher at the Center for International Studies (Paris). His main fieldwork is Beirut and he also works on other Arab cities such as Amman, Tunis and Sfax. He also conducts research in France.


Ghaleb Faour is Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at the CNRS Lebanon. He has worked for 25 years on assessing environmental conditions in Lebanon and Syria through remote sensing and geographical information systems.

 

Together, they edited three versions of the Atlas of Lebanon, in 2007, 2016 (both in French and Arabic) and the English and adapted translation of 2019, published by the Institut français du Proche Orient (IFPO).