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LAU and Adyan host experts for inter-religious dialogue conference
Thirty-four academics, policy makers, religious leaders and opinion makers from across the world gathered at LAU over two days to discuss religious freedom and the construction of citizenship.The...
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LAU’s Gala Dinner commemorates successful fundraising campaign
More than 700 guests including business leaders, politicians, philanthropists, and community members, along with the university’s faculty and staff attended LAU’s fifth annual Fundraising Gala Dinner...
View ArticleDon’t cover violence, report it!
Two bruised hands hold a broken frame, put it aside and then calmly start what seems to be an everyday makeup routine, stained with blood. “Hiding won’t help,” the message appears, “Report...
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LAU to get a center for innovation
Fouad Makhzoumi has pledged $3 million to LAU in order to establish the Fouad Makhzoumi Center for Innovation.“Since getting to know this institution, I realized instantly that it had a vision, in...
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LAU student wins at BDL Accelerate
Rami Rikka is an unassuming final year student of graphic design who is enjoying his recent success at BDL (Banque du Liban) Accelerate, where he and a team of new acquaintances won the $10,000 prize...
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Computer science grad lands job after Google fame
Computer science alumnus Hasan Chocor has landed a job as a product security specialist at Alfa Telecommunications after being inducted in the Google Hall of Fame.“Alfa contacted me via LinkedIn after...
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Multiple partnerships and initiatives enrich campaign against gender violence
Every year, LAU’s Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) organizes events, activities and campaigns for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. This year was no...
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Shifting American politics
How do you view Donald Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States?Trump was a very different candidate and now President-Elect than we’ve ever had before. He hasn’t been in the military...
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Fostering graduate studies and research at LAU
Last week, LAU’s Graduate Studies and Research Office (GSR) held a grant proposal writing workshop as part of its mission to support the research needs of investigators and to foster quality research...
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LAU geneticist leads revelatory research into Ice Age populations
New genetics research led by LAU professor Pierre Zalloua has confirmed the existence of isolated populations around the Black Sea and the Northern Levant during the Ice Age. Referred to as refugia,...
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LAU athletics director appointed head coach of national basketball team
“It’s the most prestigious position a coach can hope to attain,” says Joe Moujaes proudly of his recent appointment as head coach of Lebanon’s senior men’s basketball team. Moujaes, director of...
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LAU to establish a new computer center thanks to Midis Group
Midis Group has pledged $325,000 to LAU to establish the Midis Group Student Computer Center located at the forthcoming Engineering Labs and Workshops Building on the Byblos campus.“LAU and President...
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Byblos wall beautified by Architecture and Design students
The wall of a bridge in Byblos underwent a creative and colorful makeover recently when students, faculty, staff and alumni from the School of Architecture and Design came together to brighten the...
View ArticleLAU alumna assumes executive directorship of Arab arts fund
Rima Mismar began the new year with a new role as executive director of the Beirut-based Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC). “I have grown with and contributed to the growth of the institution,”...
View ArticleSaloua Raouda Choucair, pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, dies at 100
Saloua Raouda Choucair, avant-guarde artist, died on January 27. She was 100 years old.Increasingly acclaimed painter and sculptor, Choucair is considered to have introduced modern and abstract art to...
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LAU and its Institute for Women’s Studies salute founding director Julinda...
Students, professors, and staff of LAU, both current and former, gathered in the Riyad Nassar Library on the Beirut campus on Friday evening to pay homage to the founding director of the Institute for...
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Visiting Harvard professor runs postgraduate course on migration
Harvard professor Peggy Levitt has concluded her first visit to Lebanon where she taught a postgraduate course entitled ‘Migrating People, and Cultures’ to students of the M.A. in Migration Studies....
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M.B.A. alumnus introduces Lebanese civil society work at Davos forum
Alumnus Fadi Mikati has returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos with fresh insights that will reinforce his work as head of a Tripoli-based organization dedicated to promoting and...
View ArticleIs data journalism the future of media?
A thorough understanding of the relationship between society, digital technologies and data is not only essential to ensure survival in a dynamic media industry but also because journalists are...
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Politics to music, a mutual relation?
Four panelists from different backgrounds came together on Tuesday at LAU Beirut to discuss the role of the arts in politics and how politics have influenced art and artists throughout history.“With...
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