Campus
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The Underlying Turf War Between Raseef and Taht Al-Shajarah
As students settle once more in the spring semester, and the temperature is at its icy peak, customers repopulate the campus’ surrounding restaurants and cafés, reigniting that cozy, wintery vibe that is so revered. That’s no different for resto/cafes like Raseef or Taht Al-Shajarah. Not too far away from each other, and not too different…
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The Dark Side of AUB Outdoors
Every year towards the end of the spring semester, an event is held with the organisation of students from different faculties and under supervision of the student affairs committee that includes music, games and foods and also local businesses. This event known as AUB outdoors, has a theme which is decided by the organising committee…
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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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Queer Visions Under Fire
On the 18th of September, Al-Rahma hospital in Tripoli, a facility that provides sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services was raided by a group of men who were part of the current hate campaign against the LGBTQ community. This ambush was on the grounds that the facility ‘promotes homosexuality,’ and the video that went viral…
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Campus Politics
Student movements have long been a strong force in Lebanon. We owe the establishment of the Lebanese University to the students who mobilized on January 23, 1951. Their general strike demanded the establishment of a public national university that was accessible to students of all classes across the country. Access to higher education at the…
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Dead Clubs Society
A core element of the university campus experience is the extracurricular activities students can participate in. The campus experience constitutes clubs, societies, and even student spaces designed to cultivate social involvement among the students as well as generate creative opportunities that encourage them to sharpen their organizational and leadership skills. AUB is known for having…
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Open Campus
Road No. 62, as can be seen in the below cadastral maps of Beirut, is one of the easiest ways to cross from Bliss to Manara. Yet, despite the road being clearly marked as part of the public domain, the only way to cross it is by paying around $20,000 a year to a private…
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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…