Under the patronage of his Excellency the Minister of Justice

Professor Ibrahim Najjar

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Center for Legal and judicial Researches
in the League of Arab States

Cybersecurity Day
December 20, 21 and 22
Antonine University Baabda - Lebanon

Program

First Day December 20, 2010

9h30: Reception and registration

10h00–10h45: opening session

- Speech of the Antonine University – Dr. Paul Ghobril, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
- Speech of the “Regional Panarab Observatory for Safety and Security in cyberspace” – Dr.
Mona El Achkar Jabbour
- Speech of HE the Minister of Justice, Professor Ibrahim Najjar

10h45–11h10: Break

11h10–12h30: session 1: The need for global cooperation

Chair: Father Fady Fadel – Vice president for foreign relations and Secretary General of
the Antonine University
- Professor Henrik Kaspersen - Former Chair person of expert committee of the Council of
Europe that prepared the Cybercrime Convention and its Additional Protocol - The Council of
Europe effort to meet the challenges of cybercrime 
- Dr. Belhassen Zouari - Director General of the National Agency for Information Security in
Tunisia – cybersecurity: challenges and potentialities in Arab World
- Dr. Imad Hoballah - Acting president of the TRA – policy and organizational strategy to
achieve safety and security
- Mr. El Habib El Mulahi - Plenipotentiary minister and director of information administration
and library at the League of Arab States - Arab efforts

12h30–14h00: Lunch

14h00–15h40: session 2: Challenges of the information technology legislation

Chair: HE Deputy Dr. Ahmad Fatfat (Lebanese Parliament) - Chairman of the
Information Technology Committee
- Dr. Amine Iaazan – Professor of law at Mawla Ismael University -Morocco- report about
Moroccan legislation related to information and communication technology
- Dr. Salma Khaled – Private law professor- Member of the laboratory of international relations
markets and negotiations- Faculty of law and political sciences in Tunisia – protection from
Cybercrime in Tunisian legislation

- Judge Dr. Wassim Hajjar – Ministry of Justice - problems of the draft Electronic Transactions
Act in Lebanon

15h40–16h00: Break

16h00–17h30: session 3: Private and public sectors’ role in confrontation and protection
Chair: HE the Minister of Communications, Dr. Charbel Nahas
- Mr. Souheil Marine - International Telecommunication Union - international efforts
- Mr. Nasser Kettani - Regional Director of the specifications for the Middle East and Africa at
Microsoft - the experience of the private sector and its role
- Engineer Major Elie Bitar – Head of the office of cybercrime and intellectual property control
in the judicial police – the real fact of prosecution and control
- Dr. Ali Ataya - Director of e-government project in Lebanon and adviser of the Minister of
Administrative Development HE Mr. Mohammed Fneish - security and safety in e-government
 Second Day December 21, 2010
9h30-11h10: session 4: Challenges of the legislation related to communications
Chair: HE Deputy Mr. Hassan Fadlallah (the Lebanese parliament) - Head of
Communications Commission
- Mr. Khaled Abd El Kader – Standards and Specifications Authority of Lebanon - the role of
standards and the best methods of application in advancing cybersecurity
- Judge Mr. Moataz El Hosseiny - legal adviser of the president of the National Postal Authority
– the importance of the cybersecurity to the National Postal Authority
- Dr. Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi - head of the Sixth Protocol IPV6 Forum in Jordan - security and the
sixth release in the Middle East
- Dr. Jawhar El Jammoussi - university professor and head of the Tunisian Association for the
law of Internet and multimedia - Electronic communication law: the need to determine needs
- Said Haïdar - Quality of Service, Type Approval and Standards Senior expert in the TRA - the
organization reality according to the TRA powers and jurisdiction: the authority’s contributions
and opinion

11h10-11h30: Break

11:30-13h10: session 5: The academic role of universities and the social dimension of
Internet culture invasion
Chair: Dr. Ahmad Al-Jammal - Director General for Higher Education
- Dr. Tarek Sorour - professor at the faculty of law at the University of Cairo – programs’
development and cooperation between universities: precautions, difficulties and perspectives
- Dr. Paul Ghobril - Dean of the faculty of engineering at the Antonine University - Internet and
cybersecurity impact on higher education
- Dr. Mona El Achkar Jabbour - associate professor at the Lebanese University - the
development of academic programs and the legislative sector capabilities evolution
- Dr. Stuart Hyde - Deputy Chief of Police in Cumbria in England – the use and abuse of social
networking

13h10-14h30: Lunch

14h30–16h00: session 6: potential mainstream of some Arab successful experiences on

safety and security
Chair: Dr. Fouad Mohamed Jamal (Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Egypt) -
information center for decision making support
- Tunisian experience
- UAE experience
- Qatar experience
- Bahrain experience
- Syrian Experience
 Third Day December 22, 2010
Arab Center for Legal and Judicial Researches in the League of Arab States Achrafieh –
Beirut

10h30–12h00 : Round table on Arab cooperation mechanisms and prospects presided by

the Director General of the Ministry of Justice, Judge President Omar El Natour with the
participation of parliamentary committees presidents, Dr. Ahmed Fatfat and Dr. Hassan
Fadlallah
- Dr Belhassen Zouari - Director General of the National Agency for Information Security in
Tunisia
- Imad Hoballah - Acting president of the TRA
- Mr. El Habib El Moulahi - Plenipotentiary minister and director of information administration
and library at the League of Arab States
- Mr. Mohamad El Khatib - Advisor at the Arab Center for Legal and judicial Researches in the
League of Arab States

- Dr. Yasser Mohamad Abou El Foutouh - Chairman of the Technical Bureau of Economic
Courts in Egypt and Legal Counsel at the presidency of the Council of Ministers in Egypt

Signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with members joined to the Regional Pan Arab
Observatory for Safety and Security in cyberspace

Signature of a of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Regional Pan Arab Observatory

for Safety and Security in cyberspace and the information center for decision making support -
presidency of the Council of Ministers in Egypt

Plan of action for 2011

Decisions’ discussion and announcement