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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please share the enclosed message
with your friends, family, colleagues, professors, and
classmates.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank
you</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Friends</st1:PersonName> and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Due
to the constraints of time, kindly forgive this group mailing. LERC is calling
upon you again in support of its current research project entitled Insecurity
and Migration: The Case of Lebanon in Post Summer 2006
War.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This survey is a vital part of an
ongoing project undertaken by The Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC),
Lebanon in partnership with the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied
Research on International Migration (CARIM) in Italy to collect, analyze and
produce an authoritative analysis on the key issues impacting emigration in the
post Summer 2006 War period. CARIM has been set up in order to implement the
EuroMed Migration project of the European
Commission.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">LERC is sending a questionnaire by
e-mail to Lebanese migrants interested in participating. Once filled, the
questionnaire would provide us with information about the perception of Lebanese
migrants regarding the economic, societal, and political insecurities in
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region></st1:place> and their impact on their
decision to return.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
results of the survey will provide a benchmark assessment of the emigration
situation in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region> for which future policies can
be introduced.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It
is our greatest hope that the questionnaire should be answered by as many
Lebanese migrants as possible worldwide as an opportunity for them to voice
their opinions and views. The questionnaire is straight forward and easy to fill
out. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><EM><I><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To protect the anonymity of
people and the integrity of the survey, we request that you keep
the blank questionnaire as well as the one completed
fully confidential.</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Therefore, our invitation extends to
first to all of you. Please respond if you would like to participate in order
for us to send you the questionnaire. Please indicate if your preference is
English or Arabic.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
would also appreciate it if you could share with us the names and e-mails of
your family members, friends, alumni, and colleagues who could or would care to
participate in this survey. Please note that our time limit to complete the
electronic survey is 25 days as of today.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><EM><I><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please note that there is another
questionnaire for Lebanese who live in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Should any Lebanese resident
be interested in participating in the part of the survey that concerns the
residents, please have them contact me.</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your efforts will be of great help
to LERC and immense value to the project.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yours
sincerely,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Guita G. Hourani, MA,
MURP<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Associate Director &
Researcher<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lebanese</SPAN></FONT></st1:PlaceName><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Emigration</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Research</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> (LERC) <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Notre</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Dame</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> (NDU)
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">P. O. Box 72</st1:Street> <st1:City
w:st="on">Zouk Mikayel</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Lebanon</st1:country-region></st1:address> Tel. 961-(0)9-218950-55
ext. 2328 Fax
961-(0)9-224803<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>