Bachar Bzeih
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Liberation
When will Palestine be liberated? That has been the most answered and unanswered question of the past 76 years. Who will liberate Palestine? That question is a little more controversial. How will Palestine be liberated? By gun, by sword, or by United Nations Resolution 9056.1/028×3. What will Palestine look like after liberation? We have heard…
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Homework Labour
The university seems to be in a perpetual crisis. Public universities are being eviscerated at home and abroad, while private universities scream of vitality while gutting their students, workers, and campus. Faced with constant internal and external threats, universities are constantly telling us, or being told, that they need to reinvent themselves. The current looming…
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Dollarisation and Student Struggle
On March 30th 2022, LAU declared that, starting from Fall 2022-2023, it would fully dollarise its tuition. This decision will see a $20,000 annual tuition skyrocket from 78 million L.L. (at the 3900 rate) to 540 million L.L. (at the current 27,000 fresh dollar rate). The rest of Lebanon’s private universities have either already, or…