Ibrahim Mohammad Mahdi Shamseddine is the president of the Association for Charity and Culture and is a founder member of the Lebanese Forum for Dialogue. He is also the founder of the “Imam Shamsuddin Foundation for Dialogue”, a civil organization which aims at spreading culture of dialogue and peace and was a founder-member of the association “Together Around Saint Mary”. He has written many articles about Lebanese and regional political issues, national unity and Islamic – Christian dialogue. He was also the vice-president of the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) from 1991 to 1996. From July 2008 until November 2009 he was the Minister of State for Administrative Reform for Lebanon.
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