Campus
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When was the last time you saw a wheelchair user on AUB campus?
For most Lebanese people, going to a governmental hospital means suffering from the insufficient, overburdened, and underfunded public healthcare sector. Meanwhile, opting for the private sector means paying out-of-pocket on expensive healthcare services that are often inaccessible to a large portion of the population. However, it seems both sectors are under-equipped in dealing with chronic…
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The Neo-liberal University Institution
The state, with all its institutions, became a tool that is constantly employed for the continued functioning of the neoliberal system. Although advertised as a system separate from the state in terms of the freedom of the market and individual choice, the neoliberal system depends on the state for its maintenance. For the function and…
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A Marxist Analysis of Group Projects
Overachievers of the student-body unite! As most students would tell you, academic life can be filled with strife, stress and the cosmic fear of assuming your future is at stake with every passing grade. Students who find themselves engulfed by this existential dread would tell you, the bane of their existence is the dreaded group…
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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…