French
Elia DAHROUGE
Lecturer
Instructor
School of Social Work
+961 (1) 421 000 elia.dahrouge1@usj.edu.lb
Researcher and Lecturer in International Relations - Consultant in Public Policy, with a special interest in the MENA.
❖ Expertise in vulnerable social groups including refugee, displaced and stateless populations, as well as other migrant and nomadic minorities, and their interaction with the state and society.
❖ Designing and leading of various research and teaching projects as the Lead Researcher of the Mobility Rights Thematic Unit at the Arab Master in Democracy and Human Rights (ArMA) at Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ).
❖ Involved since 2021 with Siren Associates – a Beirut-based non-for-profit British-Lebanese consultancy company – in various key public sector reform, digitization, and research projects (with the Government of Lebanon, the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, the Central Inspection among others), with key partners such as the UNHCR, UNDP, the World Bank, the British Embassy and INTERSOS.
❖ Leading on the design, deployment, management, and report writing of groundbreaking field research studies on statelessness in Lebanon, including planning and monitoring on-site survey deployment and high-level data analysis, in addition to mastering qualitative and quantitative research methods.
❖ Defended with distinction a PhD dissertation on the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on the Lebanese state’s identity at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2023.
❖ University lecturer for three consecutive years for courses at the Corvinus University of Budapest on minorities in the Middle East (own syllabus), research methods, as well as other courses, with excellent feedback from both management and students.
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctorat - Relations internationales | Corvinus University of Budapest | Hongrie | 2023 |
| Master - Relations internationales | Corvinus University of Budapest | Hongrie | 2014 |
| Licence - Sciences politiques, économiques et administration publique | Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth | Liban | 2010 |
Publications and communications
Dahrouge, Elias (2025). Mass Displacement Governance in Lebanon: Access to Rights Amidst War and Multileveled
Crises. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut. March
2025.
Dahrouge, Elias (2024). Lebanon’s Domino Effect: How Israel’s War on Hezbollah Triggered the Downfall of Syria’s Assad
Regime. Khayrion.com. December 2024.
Dahrouge, Elias (2024). Deadly Flirting on the Lebanese Front: The Tale of Hezbollah’s War of Attrition. Khayrion.com.
September 2024.
Siren Associates and INTERSOS (2023). Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. Research
Study. Refworld.org. December 2023.
Dahrouge, Elias (2023). From inactivity to reactivity to gut proactivity: review of Lebanon’s State policies towards Syrian
refugees (2011-2022). AARMS 2023/2. DOI: 10.32565/aarms.2023.2.2
Dahrouge, Elias (2022). The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Lebanese State Identity — The Impact of the Syrian Refugee
Crisis on the Lebanese State Identity Through Discourse and Actions (2005-2020). PhD Thesis. Corvinus University of
Budapest. DOI: 10.14267/phd.2023055.
Siren Associates and UNHCR (2021). Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Akkar. Research Study. Refworld.org.
September 2021.
Afkhami, S.; Yildirim, C.; Ezzat, N.; Dahrouge, E (2021). What do Middle Eastern Countries Expect from the Biden
Administration? Policy Brief. Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. KKI 4:1 Series. April 2021.
Dahrouge, Elias (2020). A szíriai menekültválság Libanonban. [The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon]. Nemzet és Biztonság
2020/1. Szám. DOI: 10.32576/nb.2020.1.4.
Dahrouge Elias et. al. (2020). The 17 October 2019 protests in Lebanon: Perceptions of Lebanese and non-Lebanese residents
of Tripoli and surroundings. Global Campus of Human Rights Journal. Volume 4 No 2. http://doi.org/20.500.11825/2035.
2020.
Dahrouge Elias; Szalai, Máté (2018). A Small State in Constant Crisis Lebanon after the parliamentary elections of May
2018. Policy Brief. Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. KKI Policy Brief. E-2018/48.
Burchill, R.; Dahrouge, E.; Etl, A.; Marton, P. (2018). Why Does the Assad Regime Use Chemical Weapons in the Syrian
Civil War? Policy Brief. Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. KKI 4:1 Series. September 2018.
Dahrouge Elias (2017). The Syrian refugees in Lebanon, beyond a humanitarian problem. Article in Grotius. Grotius. 2017.
Dahrouge Elias (2017). A review of the impact of the Syrian civil war on Lebanon`s security (2011-2016). Article in Grotius.
Grotius. 2017.
Other
Dahrouge Elias (2025). The complexity behind the violence against minorities in Syria. Geo-Polemic Blog. Substack.com.
March 2025.
Dahrouge Elias (2024). The Lebanon-Israel ceasefire: The paradox of a constantly violated agreement. Geo-Polemic Blog.
Substack.com. December 2024.
Dahrouge Elias (2019). L’irrésistible ascension de l’identité libanaise commune. Article in periodical. L’Orient Le Jour.
2019.12.28.
Dahrouge Elias (2016). Nous sommes tous des corrompus. Article in periodical. L’Orient Le Jour. November 2016.