In commemoration of its birth in 1866, AUB cele-brated its annual Found-

ers Day on Monday, Decem-ber 6 in Assembly Hall with the presence of distinguished guests and ambassadors, faculty and staff members, as well as students. Current United Nations’ Special Co-ordinator for Lebanon, Mr. Michael Williams, was the keynote speaker. The ceremony started with a formal procession of facul-ty members and senior ad-ministrators followed by the Lebanese National Anthem

The University Student Faculty Committee (USFC) and Student

Representative Committee (SRC) cabinet elections oc-curred uneventfully in all faculties with the exceptions of FAS and FEA. Some of the involved problems could be traced back to the fragmen-tation of the We Will cam-paign into separate factions following the SRC elections. Nezameddin rescheduled the FEA elections to the following Wednesday be-cause less than half of the SRC had shown up. Free-

خليفة، جواد محمد الدكتور أقام جلنة مع بالتعاون والصحة، وزير والشؤون والعمل العامة الصحة ،والبرنامج النيابية اإلجتماعية الوطني ملكافحة التدخني، محاضرة بيروت، في األميركية اجلامعة في ٣٠ في الواقع الثالثاء نهار وذلك الساعة متام في ٢٠١٠ نوفمبر الوست قاعة في مساء السابعة احملاضرة هذه في شارك وقد هول. قانون مشروع إقرار يدعمون نواب لبنان. التدخني في للحد من صارم من عدد اجلامعة، حرم في فاجتمع ورجال السياسية الشخصيات عن التعبير أراد وحضور األعمال بالذكر القانون. واجلدير دعمه لهذا حلظر صدر الذي اجلديد القانون أن التدخني في األماكن العامة بشكل

dom Club member and FEA SRC member Richard Aoun announced that “it was too close” when discussing the results obtained on Wednes-day December 1. SRC members and cam-paign leaders aggregat-ed outside West Hall short-ly before the FAS elections took place on Monday No-vember 29. The We Will cam-paign, comprising mainly of members from the Lebanese Mission Club, the Freedom Club, the Cultural Club of the South and the Communi-cations Club, split into unde-fined portions and were not unified at the time of these elections. Senior Economics

قطعي لم يلقى حتى الساعة دعما ولم السياسية، اجلهات من كافيا النواب بعد من قبل مجلس يصدق كانت هنا من سياسية. ألسباب على وتأكيد تعبير مبثابة احملاضرة املهم والدور القانون هذا أهمية اللذي تلعبه اجلامعة األميركية حلث شبابها على عدم التدخني، إنطالقا املشددة واملناشير احملاضرات من طريق وعن التدخي، خطر على حظرها التدخني في احلرم، بإستثناء واخملصصة احملدودة احملطات بعد رئيس عنه عبر ما هذا للمدخنني. في دورمان، بيتر الدكتور اجلامعة دعما مانحا احملاضرة هذه افتتاحه هذا تطبيق على وحثا معنويا القانون، في لبنان كله، و أال يقتصر

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performed by the AUB Choir. AUB President Peter Dor-man made an introductory address highlighting the in-timate bond AUB has devel-oped over the years with its neighborhood. “Beirut em-braced the university,” said President Dorman while em-phasizing that “no great in-stitution can exist separate-ly from the civilization that gave it birth, and no univer-sity can exist independent-ly of the neighborhood and the city that together help to mold its inimitable charac-ter.” President Dorman then

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Major Ali Sheet of the Leba-nese Mission Club described the atmosphere as “real-ly tense” and Senior Biolo-gy Major Luna Geagea of the Freedom Club stated that “there are backstabbers.” On the other hand, Sopho-more PSPA student Tara Bi-zri said she thought it was a “lovely day” and Junior SRC member Christel Ghan-dour said the elections “look fair” and “not that concoct-ed.” Both belong to the Com-munications Club. To Alter-native Front FAS Graduate student Mario Abou Zeid, things seemed “democrat-

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the need for collaboration between the USFC and stu-dents: “students have to help us; I represent the students.” As a member of the Leba-nese Mission Club, Sheet said that some might consid-er his victory a political one, but he replied, “I, as the VP, represent 9000 students. I’m not talking about a certain group or a certain political party.” He further explained that he was unaffected by the schism in the We Will cam-paign and that his USFC will show complete political im-partiality. The VP said he plans on con-tinuing a few of his predeces-sor’s policies like the Ring Ceremony, the Speakers’ Corner, and the Outlook pub-lications of USFC reports. He expects the USFC will meet on a weekly basis and send a copy of its decisions and/or minutes to Outlook for pub-lication. Sheet praised the Speakers’ Corner as the only true place where students can get together and discuss issues, free of any political or

conducted a survey on stu-dent satisfaction right after the SRC elections (filled by 150 students). On the topic of community service, Sheet believes that “we have to implement it in AUB.” His opinion is to re-place the Dean’s Warning with mandatory Community Service hours when it comes to small infringements (like smoking in the wrong area). This way, students will gain experience and make a dif-ference; “if a student works for 30 hours, he can be forgiv-en.” On the Smoking Policy, Sheet, a smoker, respects the rights of non-smokers. How-ever, he still wants to have a few designated Smoking Ar-eas around campus, as they are needed by many students. As a solution to the parking menace, Sheet proposes out-sourcing as a viable solution: AUB could rent or buy a park-ing area in the neighbour-hood. Sheet one day hopes to realize one Engineering stu-dent’s Final Year Project: to replace AUB’s lamps with so-

lar power ones. By the end of the year, a committee should be ready to evaluate the USFC’s efforts and hold them accountable for their actions. Sheet hopes to integrate this committee in the USFC bylaws. On a fi-nal note, Sheet noted that “we’re going to work for the whole university” and that he is motivated enough to be “persistent and stubborn at some points.”

Economics Senior Ali Sheet was elected as AUB’s new Vice Pres-

ident (VP) of the University Student Faculty Committee (USFC) on Friday, December 3. He enjoys chess, basket-ball, and intends to enforce the USFC’s “role […] to repre-sent students” by continuing successful policies and imple-menting new ones. Sheet’s platform focuses on drug and environmental awareness campaigns and direct ac-tion in changing campus life. A three time member of the Economics Student Society, Sheet plans on represent-ing the student body through what he describes in his plat-form as “three pillar phases: planning, implementing and evaluating.” He hopes to in-clude the administration in the decision making process as much as possible to ensure complete collaboration in the university’s interest. Sheet also intends to show students that his work will be marked by “perseverance and trans-parency.” He emphasized

The Students’ Rights Club (SRC) and OIRA have conducted a survey filled by 698 students. The goal was to measure the stu-dent body’s knowledge and expectations of the SRC. Here are a few interesting results:- 71% of students answered “no” to the question: “Can any stu-dent attend SRC meetings?” The right answer is “yes.”- “Which of the following is within the capacity of the SRC (check all that apply)?” The only right answer (out of the 6 op-tions) is: “Submitting proposals.”- Only 16% of the students think that the USFC have achieved their objectives in the past year.- A quarter of the students think that the USFC is behind the implementation of the 15 credit policy. It wasn’t.- A fifth of the student body is convinced that last year’s SRC and USFC have selected the Faqra Catering Company to run the cafeteria.- 70% of students believe the SRC can send campus wide sur-veys. It needs permission, just like any student.- 42% of the student body expects that it is within the SRC or USFC’s capacity to provide more parking spaces to students.59% of students weren’t aware that last year’s USFC was lob-bying to bring the network printers we are currently using on campus.

administrative pressure. Ac-cording to him, the Speakers’ Corner will also get a chance to take place every week. Yet Sheet’s opinion of the 15 credit policy varies drastical-ly from Elias Ghanem’s (the previous VP). Sheet believes last year’s student demon-strations and class boycott are still controversial and he actually supports the imple-mentation of the new tuition policy. According to Sheet, the shift to 15-Credits is in-evitable and makes financial sense in today’s economy. As a beneficiary of Financial Aid himself, he welcomes the ex-tra funds that will bring an underrepresented portion of the Lebanese demography to AUB. Although he does not oppose student loans, Sheet does not find the idea of grad-uating with a debt to pay very appealing, especially if the student concerned need-ed the loan in the first place. He admitted that the Finan-cial Aid system may not be perfect and expects to inves-tigate if necessary. He also

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that the “best solution was through this reelection.” On his view of the student elections, Ajalyakin stat-ed that “the election process is very important and it rep-resents the social and polit-ical culture within society. The sad part about it is that a lot of people are voting blind-ly,” while Lebbos responded by explaining that “the elec-tions always start political, but after elections we all put our political affiliations aside and work for the student body under one united agen-da for the interest of the stu-dents.” Dr. Samih Isber, Physics Department Chairman and Professor, monitored the FAS voting process. The elec-tions at AUB were “very dem-ocratic, void of tension, pro-ceeded smoothly, and were not as pushy,” said Isber. “I had a feeling that the cur-rent students’ election cam-paigns were not as vibrant as

they were in the previous few years,” he continued. In fact this year’s overall percentage of voters has decreased from previous years. This experi-ence, important for all stu-dents, allows them to prac-tice and learn democracy at an early age, a chance not granted by the parliament.” AUB staff L.S. also com-mented on the AUB elections based on her experience as a student, which is clearly dif-

ferent from nowadays. “We were never afraid of who we were and what we believed in and represented; at present, you don’t know with who each group is. We were much more transparent nominating our-selves directly under our po-litical flags, yet we were the ones who made all the de-cisions and most of our sup-port was from AUB and not from the outside, unlike to-day, where the students are

not working, mostly money is. All in all, I didn’t like what I saw this year.” Similarly was the case for the Med IV candidates, where the reelections took place at Room 300 in the Saab Med-ical Library (SML). Amidst a very slow voting process where voters would show up in spurts, Ihab Saab’s 18 votes were not enough for him to win, as Roba Abden-nour prevailed with 32 votes.

students to understand that so they decided to create an AIDS awareness day event. The event was about teach-ing the AUB students not to discriminate against the peo-ple who had AIDS but to help them, and that giving hugs is not contagious. They had stands all over West Hall and people go-ing around giving free hugs. One of the stands was for giv-ing donations. They want-ed to help the people who al-ready had AIDS. The biggest event of the day was the hu-man red ribbon. AUB stu-dents stood side by side in the shape of the red ribbon with each student holding two balloons. The red rib-bon is an international sym-bol of AIDS awareness that is worn by people all year round to demonstrate care and con-cern about HIV and AIDS, and to remind others of the need for their support and

a success. The event was a great success and a lot of peo-ple enjoyed it. Dima Hajj, an AUB Red Cross mem-ber said, “Awesome event! It was very successful. We did a great job spreading awareness all around cam-

pus. Spread Love, not AIDS!” Riha Badaoui an AUB stu-dent said “It was really nice, seeing all the people dressed in red around campus! Free Hugs and Love is a nice idea; hopefully awareness efforts will be propagated beyond this one single day.”

SRC reelections took place on Friday, No-vember 26 for both the

Faculty of Arts and Scienc-es (FAS) and the Faculty of Medicine (FM), where there were draws on the Sopho-more seat and the Med IV seat respectively. The tiebreaker between Moustapha Ajalyakin and Amanda Lebbos proceeded in the West Hall Common Room from 10:00 am till 2:00 pm. At the end, Lebbos was able to claim the last seat for FAS Sophomore with 189 votes compared to the 131 votes for Ajalyakin. When asked why both can-didates refused to forfeit the seat for the other, both re-sponded by stating that each of them deserved to win be-cause they had both worked hard for the seat, adding

December 1, 1988 marked the first World AIDS Day. It

was all about raising money, increasing awareness, fight-ing prejudice and improving education. The theme for the World AIDS Day for 2010 is “Universal Access and Hu-man Rights.” World AIDS Day reminds people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.3 million peo-ple living with HIV, includ-ing 2.5 million children. Dur-ing 2009 some 2.6 million people became newly infect-ed with the virus and an es-timated 1.8 million people died from AIDS. William Hazlitt said “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” AUB Red Cross Club wanted the AUB

commitment. On the count of ten they launched the bal-loons into the sky. It was a great scene to watch and it brought smiles to everyone’s face. The event brought the students together. Everyone helped out to make this day

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ing to screen movies that are very good that people don’t usually hear about,” said a long-standing member, Leila Younes. Also, it must be not-ed that Amélie is one of the less obscure titles that the club has screened in the past. Younes explained that the movie was “a good start for our club because it’s fun and well known and it’s a master-piece.” Seeing the positive re-actions of those attending the screening, starting off with a more entertaining film seems to have paid off. Of course it must be clarified that Amé-lie is not only entertainment for entertainment’s sake as with most mainstream mov-ies. Rather it is a master-piece of narrative and cin-

guished guests included Her Excellency Ms. Rida Mari-ette Aljure Salame, the Co-lombian Ambassador to Leb-anon, and Mr. Mohammad Ibrahim, representing H.E. Mr. Tarek Mitri, Minister of Information. In his brief introductory ad-dress, H.E. Mr. Lee empha-sized the korean govern-ment’s intention to do “its best to enhance mutual un-derstanding between the Lebanese and korean peo-ples in the fields of arts, cul-ture, and sports.” The kore-an-Arab Friendship Caravan itself, concluded His Excel-lency, was designed “to pro-mote cultural relations be-tween korea and Arab countries.” JSA is a korean blockbust-er released in the fall of 2000. It is a fictional story portray-ing the development of an un-likely friendship between two army officers, one from the Communist North, the other from the Republican South, ultimately doomed by the tensions along the Northern-Southern divide of the kore-an peninsula. Directed with gorgeous cinematography, it emphasizes the fact that de-spite conflicting geographi-

spending her time gazing at people in theaters, to dress-ing up in a Zorro costume, to pulling pranks on the mean-spirited grocery-shop owner, Amélie is definitely not what one would expect. In the end, Amélie finds and pursues a like-minded character that spends his free time collect-ing and piecing together scrap photos from under au-tomatic photo booths. This is not a simple story about love and comedy, though both of these elements are pres-ent, rather it is a tale of find-ing oneself and helping those around you along the way. One of the viewers, Bechara Samneh said, “I think that Amélie Poulain is a really good movie; it teaches you

it.” In a sense, she continued, this very movie was “chosen to be especially screened in Lebanon because it could res-onate with our own problems as Lebanese.”

how to cope when life is dull around you, and turn it into a magical experience…. And now as AUB students, we really need that, especial-ly with the midterms com-ing up.” This was, in the end, a stress-reliever and an in-spiring movie. The Cine Club is planning various other screenings and discussions that will aim towards broad-ening and deepening the cin-ematic experience. Lastly, to everyone stuck in midterms, think of the following line from the movie: “Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.”

The Caravan continued its cultural activities in Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, and was concluded in Algeria on Sun-day, November 7.

AUB’s Cine Club screened the French modern-classic Amé-

lie last Monday, November 8. The event was held in West Hall’s Auditorium B, and was open to both club mem-bers and guests for a small price that paid for a wide as-sortment of French snacks. This all-round French expe-rience is part of Cine Club’s efforts to screen masterpiec-es in film from around the Globe. Cine Club aims “to screen movies that are not like the mainstream movies, like Hollywood movies that ev-eryone can see. We are try-

For the third consecu-tive year in the Arab world and the second in

Lebanon and AUB, the kore-an-Arab Friendship Caravan took place, featuring a kore-an film festival in Tyre, Trip-oli, and Beirut. A taekwondo performance was scheduled in Michel el Murr Stadi-um, while a traditional ko-rean music concert was held in UNESCO Palace. Hosted by the korean-Arab Society and the Republic of korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the event was launched on Sunday, October 31 in Tyre and was concluded in AUB on Tuesday, Novem-ber 2 in West Hall. In AUB, His Excellency Mr. Young Ha Lee, the kore-an Ambassador to Lebanon, and his wife welcomed their guests to a reception with snacks and refreshments in the lobby next to Bathish Au-ditorium in West Hall. They then invited everyone in to start the screening of the last movie of the film festival for this year, entitled “Joint Se-curity Area” (JSA). Distin-

ematic techniques and was nominated for five Oscars including, Best Art Direc-tion, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, as well as Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Amélie, directed by Jean-Piere Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou is also known by its longer French title, Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. It is the story of a young woman who manag-es to brighten the lives of those around her in imagina-tive and almost absurd ways, while always managing to keep herself out of the spot-light. Amélie, having lived a lonely childhood, grows up having strange conceptions of the world around her. From

cal positioning and ideologi-cal ideals, there is not much difference between koreans on either sides of the Demil-itarized Zone. Speaking to Outlook after the movie, Ms. Bassima Ya-hia, Research Assistant at the korean Embassy and re-sponsible for the event’s man-agement, noted that “despite the geographical distance separating Lebanon and ko-rea, the problems faced in both countries remain, to a large extent, similar,” while emphasizing that South ko-reans are “an example to fol-low, where they were able, in quite a short period of time, to rise again after a devastat-ing civil war and transform their country into a leading worldwide economy.” Technical problems with the DVDs provided by the embassy prevented the mov-ie from reaching its end, but did not prevent its message from reaching the audience. The movie, maintained Ms. Yahia, “portrays how close JSA’s South- and North-Korean army officers real-ly are. It is that which is be-yond their individuality that separates them despite their honest attempts to overcome

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ic” and most members just wanted it to end. Senior Bi-ology student Anis kadado from Students at Work said he saw the atmosphere as “fine, a little tense.” Outlook staff was allowed to attend the FAS elections in Bathish at 6:00pm. Biology Junior Mohammad Rammal commented on the impor-tance of Outlook in introduc-ing candidates to students and facilitating dialogue. Lei-la knio, of the Student Ser-vices Office, walked students through the process. The first step of the vote was the nom-ination of candidates. The re-markable fact was that there were exactly 2 candidates for every cabinet seat: President, VP, Secretary and Treasur-er. And, out of the 33 SRC members, 10 were nominat-ed for the 5 USFC seats. The

the law while Ghandour ac-cused him of violating her time. Shortly after, a pro-fessor vociferously accused a student of lying (“you’re a liar”) 3 consecutive times. Nezameddin then addressed the students:”I’m surprised; have respect for each other.” By 7:00pm, kadado opened a notebook and seemed to be studying. It was finally de-cided that the vote would hold and that the missing IDs would be presented to the Dean’s Office in the morning. Nezameddin was then tailed into his office by campaign leaders as they further con-sidered the legitimacy of the vote. When asked how they dealt with the stress and long hours of elections season, a West Hall employee merely smiled and shrugged.

second step was the actual voting process. But in these elections, a third step was in-cluded: a debate concerning the legitimacy of the vote. 3 students had attended the meeting and voted without their AUB IDs. Shortly be-fore the end of the vote, oth-er members (most noticeably Vasken Sarkis and Sandra Atweh) had opposed to their votes being counted. “This is against the law” said Sarkis. An argument erupted that lagged on for several min-utes before Nezameddin en-tered the auditorium. By this time, kadado had changed his comment on the vote from “fine, a little tense” to “very fawda.” knio argued that the IDs weren’t necessary since the 3 students were identi-fied by others. The situation further dete-riorated as Sarkis accused the committee of violating

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CAMPUS NEWSthought it was easy as every-one immediately wrote their answer down. Second up was religion. Now this was where it started to get tough. Ques-tions like “how many people went to Hajj last season?” started bringing up murmurs from the crowd as everyone wanted to find the right an-swer. With six more categories to go, people were already starting to feel the heat. The crowd became excited, and the questions started pour-ing in. When did Pavarotti

started getting agitated. The contestants couldn’t wait to find out if they had won the 200,000 L.L prize. It seemed like ages before the winners were finally announced from fourth place up until first place only adding to the sus-pense of the already rowdy crowd; mostly everyone was on their feet. In first place came in Izzat El-Hajj (In-sight Club President), Rich-ard Backhazit and Hassan Hamdan. Even with the event done, people were still buzzing

about it. Tasneem Akra said “the event was amazing be-cause several clubs united and contributed together.” While, Mohammed Nazar a contestant said, “It was very enjoyable; even though I didn’t win it was fun.” Nour Ghazal, who was just there to watch and wasn’t compet-ing, said, “It was very excit-ing, and the host was funny and smart.”

Think you know every-thing? Well, the Insight Club decided it was

time to find out on Thursday, November 11 when it hosted Trivia Night. With a hundred trivia questions ready and the hall packed with specta-tors and teams of three it was time to begin. First up was movies. One of the questions asked was who acted in the movie “Man of the Year?” The teams

die? Which organ destroys old red blood cells? Niamey is the capital of what African Country? Who was the win-ner of the NBA 2010 slam dunk contest? The difficul-ty of the questions only led to more excitement and mur-murs from the crowd. Every-one wanted to win. Once the questions were done and the answers were collect-ed, the crowd was treated to a short video about Eid Al-Adha and a video about what being a Muslim is all about. Once that was over the crowd

Insight Club hosts trivia nightAziza khalilStaff Writer

Founder’s Day essay contest

announced the winners of 2010’s Founders Day Stu-dent Essay Contest with the topic question being: “In 2010, what is AUB’s relation-ship to its place, its Ras Bei-rut neighborhood, and what should it be?” May Chaker, a Junior at the OSB, and Tala Mukaddam , a Sophomore in the PSPA department, came in third and second plac-es respectively. The win-ner of the contest was Daria El Samad, a senior majoring in Economics. The winners will be awarded $250, $500, and $750 prizes respectively. Moreover, El Samad’s name will be immortalized on a plaque that will be placed outside Assembly Hall. In her winning essay, El Sa-mad noted, while reiterating the impossibility of think-ing of the university as a sep-arate entity from its sur-rounding, that AUB “doesn’t fully accommodate for the needs of its surroundings and vice versa.” El Samad highlighted the growing dis-crepancy between the pros-perous AUB community and the “not as settled” neighbor-hood “where real estate pric-es have skyrocketed over the past few years.” This sharp rise in prices “ha[s] generat-ed limited economic activity and restricted the economic opportunities that could have

solved students’ demands.” El Samad highlighted that while AUB took various mea-sures in response to emerging problems, such as the “Neigh-borhood Initiative” and the “Greening the Environment” project, student involvement in these initiatives “remains minimal.” She stressed that invoking a “sense of respon-sibility” in students “is es-sential for development.” She finally concluded by urg-ing students to “widen their scope and target the neigh-borhood through academic outreach, field research, cul-tural involvement and social awareness projects.” After a recital of a piece by Tomás Luis de Victoria by the AUB Choir, President Dorman introduced keynote speaker Michael Williams, a former diplomat, senior ad-viser, writer and research-er. Williams praised AUB as a center of dialogue and co-existence, “an almost sacred space within Lebanon for in-teraction and engagement between students of differ-ent backgrounds and origins, of different confessions and nationalities.” In this sense, Williams believes, “AUB cap-tures and embodies the very spirit of the United Nations.” He then lauded the invalu-able input AUB alumni had on the UN; Charles Malek drafted in considerable part the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at least 19

AUB alumni were delegates at the founding conference of the UN in 1945, and three former students were among the first signatories to the UN Charter on behalf of their respective governments. “Perhaps no other leading ac-ademic institution,” contend-ed Williams, “could claim to have played such a cen-tral role in the creation of the United Nations.” By emphasizing the “re-markable career” of late alumnus and former profes-sor Charles Malek, Williams gave an overview of the re-

lationship between Lebanon and the UN including the na-tion’s current two-year term on the UN Security Council, UN agencies’ developmen-tal and humanitarian work in the country, and progress made on the implementation of Lebanon-related UN reso-lutions. Bearing in mind the various difficulties Lebanon is cur-rently facing such as nation-building, inequality, poverty rates, and regional instabil-ity, Williams affirmed that “it is young men and wom-en who are the human capi-

tal of Lebanon.” He described the AUB community as “the building blocks for the Leb-anon of tomorrow,” and con-cluded by contending that “AUB represents the spirit of diversity, co-existence and tolerance that are fundamen-tal for Lebanon to succeed.” The ceremony was then con-cluded by AUB’s Alma Mat-er and an official recessional. Refreshments were offered in front of College Hall along-side a small book sale stand featuring some AUB publica-tions about the institution’s history.

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The Office of Grants and Contracts in coordina-tion with the Office of

International Programs at AUB hosted Andreas Wutz, the Representative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on Novem-ber 2, 2010. Wutz talked to more than 80 students about the German University sys-tem, the benefits of studying in Germany and the accep-tance requirements as well as the available scholarship programs that Lebanese stu-dents and scholars can bene-fit from. With headquarters in Bonn, DAAD has 63 branches and information centers around the world, including Leba-

Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Tim-othy Mitchell came to

AUB on November 8 to pres-ent on the role of oil in Middle Eastern and North African politics. Professor Mitchell currently teaches in the de-partment of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cul-tures at Columbia University in New York. He previously taught at New York Univer-sity where he, amongst oth-er faculty members from various universities and pro-fessionals from around the world, signed a letter in sup-port of an academic boycott against Israel. AUB’s Center for Arabic and Middle East-ern Studies organized the event and held it in Auditori-um B1 of College Hall. Professor Mitchell began his lecture by stating, “We

non, and provides more than 57,000 scholarships annual-ly. In 2009, DAAD expendi-tures encompassed 83 million Euros on scholarships for for-eigners, and 51 million Euros on educational cooperation with developing countries. During the presentation, Wutz highlighted DAAD’s research scholarships for ap-plicants from Lebanon which focus on grant programs for PhD-candidates and academ-ic staff. He stated that PhD-candidates can apply for full grants, covering the full pe-riod of their PhD studies (up to 3.5 years) and research in Germany. Another DAAD program targets young pro-fessionals who have a Bach-elor’s degree and at least two years of professional experi-

are in the declining decades of the fossil fuel era. There are two crises at hand: we are using conventional sources

of petroleum faster than we are finding them, and burn-ing supplies of oil releases carbon into the atmosphere causing global warming and uncertainty in the Earth’s climate.” Oil and the environ-ment are two very central is-sues to governments around the world, more so to gov-ernments in the Gulf region of the Arab world consider-

ence in a field related to civ-il engineering, regional plan-ning, public health and other disciplines. The one hour presentation also featured information and facts about Germany’s popu-lation and geography, its in-ventions, discoveries and noble prize winners and its cultural and religious diver-sity. Pointing out that Ger-many has the third highest number of foreign students in the world, Wutz went on to talk about the country’s var-ious higher education sys-tems and universities which range from technical univer-sities, to universities of ap-plied sciences, to colleges of music, art and film. He ex-plained that there are 900 in-ternational degree programs

throughout Germany which provide Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral programs and provided details on the living and tuition expenses of stu-dents as well as the benefits of studying in Germany. Wutz said that DAAD’s role in Lebanon is not only to pro-vide students with assis-

ing the role the Gulf has in oil production. According to Pro-fessor Mitchell, “Twentieth century politics is structured

around the economy.” Since oil is paramount to the econo-my as well as maintenance of developed/industrialized na-tions, the Arab world is the focus of those nations’ foreign policies, thus subjecting the Arab world to constant for-eign intervention since after the First World War. The reasons for consistent foreign intrusion into the pol-

tance on getting scholarship support but also to give guid-ance on the various programs and fields of study. He invit-ed students to contact him to explore the available inter-national programs and fund-ing sources from DAAD and a vast variety of other foun-dations.

itics of the Arab world and its effects are nothing new to people who pay even a mi-nuscule amount of attention

to international relations. What made Professor Mitch-ell’s lecture interesting, was the way he suggested we counter this problem. He sug-gested we look at it from an economic perspective. Since politics is structured around economy, we need to analyze the actions of economic ex-perts and, “…look very care-fully at how these systems

of expert knowledge work.” The problem is most people have begun to feel apathet-ic towards international af-fairs mainly due to the senti-ment that most governments act without our consent and nothing we say will mat-ter. The global elites have a stake in the status quo so us-ing political means to bring about change can be discour-aging. They will not give up power and influence willing-ly solely for the sake of jus-tice. Change must be forced upon them. Use the economy as an agent of change. When we buy things from compa-nies that politically support the global elites, we are also supporting the global elites. If we want them to change their policies, we need to hit them where it hurts, their pockets. Elections do not only come once every two to four years. We vote every single day with our wallets.

Rosie NasserAssociate Director,Office of Grants and Contracts at AUB

Mark FrancisStaff Writer

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) representative visits AUB

Oil & Politics in MENA

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“They will not give up power and influence will-ingly solely for the sake of justice. Change must

be forced upon them. Use the economy as an agent of change... If we want them to change their policies, we need to hit them where it

hurts, their pockets.”

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CAMPUS NEWSPalestinian Cultural Club on the right to a

comprehensive education

Everyday, as regular students around the globe make their way

to school, they may deal with the pains of traffic jams, ear-ly classes and occupied park-ing lots. Students in Pales-tine, on the other hand, must deal with far more disheart-ening matters like that of be-ing thoroughly searched at the borders (the “ضفة-قدس” border set by the declaration in 1967 is an example). The wait could be so lengthy that a five minute walk to school could at times end up a sev-eral hour stall at the border. Not only that, but there are occasions when students fi-nally make their way into class only to find that their instructors were not allowed entry into the boarder. “We used to disguise our teacher as a student so she could pass the borders and teach us,” recalled Dina Dajani. Such are the lives of the Palestin-ians who hope to “shed light on what a Palestinian stu-dent suffers to obtain their basic right – education,” stat-ed Palestinian Cultural Club (PCC) President Tarek Abdul Rahman. In achieving this end, two lectures took place in West Hall Auditorium A and Bathish on Wednesday, November 10 and 11 respec-tively. Education goes beyond uni-versities and schools to touch and affect the heart of any nation; it is the decisive fac-tor between a nation’s surviv-al on one hand and its extinc-tion on the other, elaborated social activist and educator kawash saying, “education is destiny.” Kawash defined education as “the realization of one’s own potential which is to be used for the greater good.” Simply put, no nation is complete without its edu-cation and civilization. ka-wash illustrated this by pro-viding the Sputnic Crisis as an example. Sputnic is a So-viet satellite that was first to invade space during the Cold

Samer Bu JawdehStaff Writer

War, a matter that terrified America and led it to initiate the National Defense Educa-tion Act to empower itself in the Space Race. Later on, students attend-ing the lecture expressed that not any particular edu-cation suffices for the Pales-tinians; the Zionist enemy has always tried to eradicate their memory and so any ed-ucation should include the Palestinian history with all its struggles in order to pre-serve the national identi-ty, the right of return and the truth behind the injus-tice. This issue is complete-ly neglected. For instance, in Lebanon and particularly in Palestinian camps, the Unit-ed Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), funded by the United States of Ameri-ca (USA), sets the education-al curriculum without these considerations. Milad Sa-lami, Palestinian from Na-her-El-Bared, comments, “things here are not that dif-ferent from Palestine.” Pal-estinians have actually lost the desire to learn not be-cause the Palestinian fami-ly does not value education, but because they are scarcely presented with the chances of either attending school or acquiring a job. Who can af-ford the pursuit of an educa-tion if basic conditions for life cannot be attained? Some 60 percent of Palestinian fam-ilies are below the poverty line; a fact which forces many students to leave school in order to help their parents earn their living. Further-more, even after graduating from colleges, it is very diffi-cult for Palestinians to find a job due to unjust laws and discrimination. This makes Milad wonder about the pur-pose behind “getting a degree and hanging it on the wall.” As for schools, they have no counselling, no programs for children with learning dif-ficulties and no school-par-ent relationship. kawash re-veals that failure rates are around 40 percent for stu-dents aged 17! He also adds

that from 2005-2010 the pop-ulation increase was not ac-companied by an increase in the number of students. This does not mean that classes are empty; on the contrary many classes have more than 40 students. Faced with all these problems, kawash strongly believes that the “…the civic society is unpre-pared” and that therefore, “we need to improve the qual-ity of education...” He stress-es the importance of civic rules and volunteers, “there

should be an initiative, pro-gram, training, and plan…we need something human-itarian far from politics and religion.” Sadeel Moustapha, AUB student and freshman re-counted the extra care given for copybooks so that notes are passed down and used from generation to genera-tion. “[Here,] we take edu-cation for granted...” she ex-plained, adding, “…when the United Nations sends us pen-cils and copybooks, we feel we

are being offered a treasure.” Until the civic communi-ty decides to increase its aid and until the law is amended towards respecting the rights of Palestinians, the Pales-tinians will not only have to struggle to get a proper ed-ucation, but will also have to suffer discrimination and alienation so that their sto-ries, cause and ultimately, their identity should endure the test of time.

(Photo by Samer Bu Jawdeh)

(Photo by Samer Bu Jawdeh)

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ART & CULTUREWhat if a permanent drought comes about?

A globalization confer-ence took place on Wednesday, Novem-

ber 24th at the Crowne Pla-za hotel, specifically regard-ing the issue of global climate change and the potential agreements that will be tak-ing place as an attempt to rectify the emerging crisis. The conference, which was sponsored by Indy Act (The League of Independent Ac-tivists) in collaboration with the British Embassy and En-vironment Ministry, lasted for just over two hours and outlined the main policies pertaining to the issue. Over the last 13 years, the UNFCCC (The United Na-tions Framework Convention on Climate Change) has made several attempts to reach an international climate agree-

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ment regime, including the kyoto protocol, Copenhagen and now Cancun agreement; however every attempt so far has been a futile one. Much opposition was met as de-veloping countries continu-ously resisted the pressure of developed countries that wished to spark an interna-tional contribution to reduc-tions of their greenhouse gas emissions. Their resistance was centered on the belief that they should not be com-pelled to make such strong commitments when devel-oped countries could not ful-fill their own end. The failure to reach a com-prehensive agreement in Co-penhagen may have come as a disappointment to all the countries that were involved. The biggest obstacle in the

Copenhagen agreement was that it revolved around ne-gotiations solely taking place between developed countries. This effectively disregard-ed any commitment from de-veloping countries in the so-called international regime, despite the fact that the main hindrance stems from devel-oping countries contributing to the bulk of global emissions growth. Developed countries have been stressing that we have little time to act, and if we do not cap emissions in the next decade there will be permanent, catastrophic cli-mate changes worldwide. The complexity of these cli-mate talks may partly be due to the interplay between eco-nomical, as well as climat-ic, factors. Many countries rely intensely on methods

involving bulky greenhouse gas emissions to enrich their economy and are therefore re-luctant to make any substan-tial reductions. The root of the US resistance of the kyo-to protocol stems from the difficulty in implementing any agreements because of the climate skeptics, leading to legislative bodies rejecting climate bills. This may be the reason why the US gets left out of future agreements, de-spite Obama’s recent efforts to thwart that. Hope lies within the Can-cun agreement, as any fail-ure may threaten the whole UNFCCC process. The out-come in Cancun relies great-ly on the COP president, which, in this case, is Mexi-co. The Mexicans are deter-mined to achieve results in

Cancun, and have even ap-pointed their minister of for-eign affairs as the COP pres-ident, understanding that the climate change negoti-ations is related to politics more so than the environ-ment. Having said this, Can-cun will only be one stop, as the negotiation process is ex-pected to continue to South Africa, however nothing is for sure. Therefore, we must carefully consider the road-map after Cancun in the long term. Arab countries, includ-ing Lebanon, have a big role to play in the Cancun agree-ment and, above all, should not resort to the concept that ‘nothing is agreed until ev-erything is agreed,’ because that will only serve to hold us back more.

AUB Online Collaborative’s “Blogging Lebanon” debuts successfully

Friday December 3 marked the first “Blog-ging Lebanon” conven-

tion, hosted by AUB’s On-line Collaborative (AUBOC), which took place at Bathish and Auditorium B in West Hall from 3:00 PM to 8:30 PM. There were around 150 people at the event, includ-ing guest speakers, Lebanese and Arab bloggers, students, professors, journalists and people who are interested in social media and blogging in general. The even kicked off with AUBOC president Moham-mad Hijazi’s welcoming speech in Bathish, introduc-ing the guest speakers and AUBOC’s mission, and ex-tending a thank you to the audience present, including a special one to British Am-bassador of Lebanon, Fran-ces Guy, a blogger herself, and the other bloggers, jour-nalists, and media.

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Dean of Student Affairs Dr. Talal Nizameddine pro-ceeded Hijazi’s speech with a welcoming note of his own, describing his lack of enthu-siasm to enter the technolo-gy age due to the negative as-pects that are found on the internet, such as child por-nography and gambling, and how he mistakenly used to call a Blackberry ‘Blueberry’. Guy was the first guest speaker of the convention, as she has started a blog and been consistently writ-ing it for years. Being one of the few diplomats to do so, Guy described the challenges that came with that, and also talked about how politicians influence the media. During the Q&A session, the Brit-ish Ambassador pitied Octa-via Nasr after her controver-sial firing from CNN, due to her tweet on the Grand Aya-tollah Fadlallah, describing her own experience as the British media claimed that she might be fired as well due to a blogpost of hers. Final-

ly, Guy was asked about the recent Wikileaks, where she refused to comment as “they were illegally leaked.” “Blogging Lebanon” contin-ued with 14 other presenta-tions, including well known people amongst AUB and the Arab blogging world, such as AUB’s Event Planner John-ny El Hage, who described his experience about blog-ging in native Lebanese. Mo-hammad Shawash, a design-er who came from Amman to participate in the event, had a presentation that dealt with all the numbers and sta-tistics related to social media and its effect on us. Art Direc-tor Naeema Zarif of Creative Commons (CC) talked about having an elastic copyright system in Lebanon and what CC has to offer. The conven-tion had a 30 minute inter-mission at 5:30 PM that was a snack break, moving the convention to Auditorium B. Blogger Darine Sabbagh and Hijazi, who presented a vid-eo related to Shawash’s pre-

sentation, talked about the Arab Social Media Forum (ASMF), as both are ambas-sadors of the event, which is taking place in Jordan on De-cember 11. AUBOC’s mem-ber at large Sherif Maktabi introduced HelpLeb, a new project he is working on that allows users to share issues they are facing and work on them via the web. The ASMF was not the only conference being brought up, as the 9th Fikr conference, taking place on December 8 and 9, was in-troduced by Abdelkareem Niazi of the Arab Thought

Foundation. Shankaboot, the first Arab webisode se-ries, was presented by its project manager Tony Oyry and Online Content manag-er Arek Dakessian. The con-vention ended with Ayman Itani, a digital media strate-gist, who had a very interest-ing presentation about the Arab pop culture and the In-ternet, which included a few video sketches and stats on the MENA (Middle East & North Africa).

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ART & CULTUREScouts enlist talents of pianist & composer Waleed Howrani

Markus karas marks a unique night

Music rung through-out Assembly Hall, Monday, Novem-

ber 2, as the talented Waleed Howrani graced the audience with classics from Haydn, Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin, Isaac Albeniz, as well as his own composition “To Bach & Beyond.” The event was host-ed by the Lebanese Scout As-sociation as part of their 75th anniversary celebrations, which included many oth-er cultural and social events. However, this performance was the finale, and bore his-toric significance since the Scouts first started out in AUB and Howrani himself was a scout when he grew up in Lebanon. Waleed Howrani, who is originally Lebanese, now re-sides in the United States and is considered an internation-al success. After graduating from the Tchaikovsky Con-servatory in Moscow, 1973, he went on to study under the

On Friday, Novem-ber 19 at 8:00 pm in Assembly Hall, the

beast was awoken from his nocturnal slumber. AUB’s monstrous organ sounded with fierce roars as the 2008 prestigious Sudeten Ger-man Cultural Prize recipi-ent Mr. Markus karas struck the keys with his hands and legs. Yes legs! The organ is played using all the body. Ju-lia Samoty, an amateur pia-nist, explains “playing the or-gan needs the utilization of the five senses and the body. It is a strenuous effort, yet he [Markus karas] makes it look easy.” Ahmad Nourredine, Architecture Student, notes that “maybe the amount of effort needed to play the or-gan has made organ playing

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well renowned composer Wil-liam Albright. His playing style, while being highly ac-complished and professional, still manages to pull off an air of casual playfulness. How-rani’s demeanor itself is very unlike the stiff-backed high-brow attitude stereotypically associated with classical mu-sicians, as he had no qualms about directly addressing the audience, joking around, and simply having fun while he enjoyed doing what he loves best: music. Also, Howrani’s music it-self is very much a reflection of his character as he moves away from the traditional classical style, choosing to in-corporate Jazz, Ethnic, and Popular music into his com-positions. The original com-position that was featured in this concert, in its Lebanese premier, was his “To Bach & Beyond” that tells the story of music through time and his-tory, as he intended to “take the listener on a journey from Bach’s times to the 20th Cen-tury Boogie-Woogie.” The

really rare.” Mr. karas did not confirm this but he finds that organ playing in Germa-ny is very common and well accepted. However, organ playing is rare in the Arab world. One member of the audience states that “a wide piece of our society does not toler-ate this type of cultural mu-sic, although like any unique art it should spread.” Despite the fact that most of our so-ciety would not listen to or-gan playing, the concert had quite a turn out. In fact, Mr. Markus was amazed that many people showed up be-cause he believes that “the independent Lebanese man is always busy... trying to support his family and him-self.” Even with all burdens, the Lebanese man came to appreciate Mr. karas’s work and effort.

piece, originally inspired by a theme by Ziad Rahbani, plays on various cultural and ethnic tones as well. Howrani says, “I like to write in a Poly-stylistic way, drawing from various genres, while at the same time making it original and novel.” Considering that Howrani himself was a scout as a child, he felt like paying them back for everything he learned from them. Recounting his first camping trip, Howrani expressed how a fellow scout

At first, there was a bit of confusion. After the first piece “Prélude en sol mineur” by Dietrich Buxtehude end-ed, the audience did not clap. This is evidence to the dis-tant nature of organ playing from the audience’s general taste. However, afterwards, the audience delved more and more in the enchanting compositions and applauded Mr. karas’s effort. Although he played musical pieces of

selflessly went out and made him potatoes when he was sick. “It teaches you every-thing useful, and for many it’s their first exposure to real responsibility,” he said. In-terestingly enough, Howrani linked his scout experience with music, as “they have the same principles; you learn things in chunks and by rep-etition.” Celebrated on the same day as the Lebanese Indepen-dence, the event commenced with the words of Lebanese

great and famous conductors such as Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven, Mr. karas’s own dynamic compositions and improvisation were the most appreciated and applauded. At the end of the recital, the talented organist incorporat-ed our national anthem to his improvisation as homage to the Lebanese Flag Day. Other than the Lebanese national anthem, Mr. karas expressed his love for the

Scout Association President Doha El-Zein Halawi, who wished for a night “far away from politics and sectarian-ism.” Secretary of the Asso-ciation, Joseph El-Gharib, explained that they wanted to end the anniversary cele-brations with something “re-fined, cultural, and excep-tional. It’s good for everyone to know about Howrani and get used to such music in this region.”

classic Arab folklore music especially oud and nai. He ac-tually studied this type of ori-ental music and finds it fas-cinating. When asked why he chose the organ, Mr. karas replied that he once heard a lady playing the organ and was immediately enthused to learn it. He requested that she teach him and so she did. Later, he found out that she was a really famous musi-cian.

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Orlando Trujillo, appeared first on stage and seated him-self in the center of the stage. The show started with an ex-uberant bandoneon solo, an instrument similar to the accordion but very particu-lar to Argentinean tango. It definitely set the mood for a certain sort of music not common in Lebanon. The pi-ano player, Pablo Emilia-no Bacchi, joined the bando-neon with the second song. By then, a young man had grabbed a woman from the audience and walked her up to the stage. They danced the tango for the third song, moving ever so swiftly around the stage as they followed the rhythm of the music. Their legs tan-gled with crucial precision. When it was over, the crowd applauded as finally, Jorge Guillermo walked onto the stage.

“Marhaba….3a rasi!” is all that he said as he made his appearance. It quickly became appar-ent that Jorge Guillermo is a man with wondrous vocal chords. As he started to sing, his voice resonated so pow-erfully and encompassed the entire hall with its range. He used his singing in a very dy-namic manner, moving from low, high, soft , strong tones to humorous expressions and melancholy whispers. The orchestra continued to

A little bit of Argentina was expressed at As-sembly Hall on Thurs-

day, December 2, 2010. An Argentinean Orchestra com-posed of bandoneon, piano, and guitar players as well as two tango dancers, per-formed with the well-known singer, Jorge Guillermo. The event was named “La nuit de Buenos Aires de Gardel a Pi-azzolla, et apres…” The performance com-menced with a speech by the Argentinean ambassador in Lebanon. He seemed very proud to have the tango or-chestra here in Beirut. “For us the tango is one of the best expressions of our country,” he stated. The or-chestra was then introduced and the show begun. A bandoneon player, Hebert

play as the tango dancers came out again. Guillermo grabbed his guitar and joined the music with utmost en-thusiasm. Eleven songs were played in all and some were performed in honor of main-ly three artists, those art-ists being Carlos Gardel, an Argentinean tango singer/actor, Homero Manzi, a tan-go lyricist and Astor Piazol-la. Astor Piazolla, a deceased Argentinean composer and musician, is a crucial figure for composing music for Ar-

gentinean tango and master-ing the bandoneon. Hence, the name of the event was in dedication to both Piazolla and Gardel. Jorge Guillermo has had a long career in music since he started performing in 1975. He is a founding member of the “Fondation Culturel-le Carlos Gardel.” He has toured with the Argentinean Orchestra in many countries around the world expressing the soul of Argentinean tan-go.

Jorge Guillermo sings with Argentinean orchestraYumna GhandourStaff Writer

“Ta3a Ne7ke” with Ibsar Western or alternative medicine?

On Monday, November 29, the second debate in the “Ta3a Ne7ke”

series, entitled, “The Art of Healing; Western or Alterna-tive Medicine?” was held in West Hall, Auditorium B for about two hours of nonstop debating. As the title sug-gests, it tackled the differ-ences between Western tra-ditional Medicine as well as Complementary Alternative Medicine(CAM), and clearly set forward the efforts to cre-ate a hybrid mixture of both; integrated Medicine. The Moderator, Dr. Hala Mohtaseb started the event by welcoming the audience and introducing the panel-ists which were Mrs. Farida khizam, an advocate of inte-grated medicine, and a “Reiki Master”—a form of CAM—and a licensed pharmacist. Second, Dr. Fuad N. Ziyadeh,

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Chairman and Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, was introduced as an advo-cate of traditional Medicine. Similarly, Dr. Jamal Hobal-lah, Chairman and Profes-sor in the Department of Sur-gery, an AUB Graduate, and a book author in the field of Vascular Surgery was also added to the team of Tradi-tional Medicine supporters. Last but not least, Dr. Ed-mond Ibrahim, a specialist in Chinese Herbal Medicine, joined sides with Mrs. kh-izam to defend CAM. Before the actual debating started, a ‘show of hands’ vot-ing, requested by the mod-erator, showed that at least 50% of the audience agree that Integrated Medicine is the best medicine to prac-tice. The moderator also ex-plained that the challenge of the debate was to decide when one form of medicine should be used and when to use the other. As the panelists pushed back

and forth on the validity and efficacy of both types of prac-tices, it became clear that traditional medicine’s po-tency lies in the fact that it is based on research, evidence, and clinical trials, which gives it validity and efficacy. However, its principal fail-ure was expressed by many of the spectators as that it doesn’t address the patient as a human being, but as yet another case to solve; i.e they are curing the organs and not the human as a whole, which seems to be the stronghold of CAM, basing their entire ar-gument on and which they termed, the “holistic treat-ment.” The audience, on the oth-er hand, raised questions of great value such as “to what extent can CAM be standard-ized?” which Dr. Hoballah re-sponded to as “hard” and that we are “far from achieving that” whereas Mrs. khizam claimed that “before regu-lation and standardization,

we need acknowledgment” from the medical society. Moreover, many listeners expressed their disappoint-ment and awful experiences with western, scientific med-icine due to many failures ei-ther from harmful medica-tions or wasteful medical practices. Mrs. khizam’s conclusion urged doctors to treat the whole person emotional-ly, physically, and mental-ly. Whereas, Dr. Ziyadeh claimed that “there’s no such thing as CAM, there’s only medicine that works, and medicine that doesn’t work.” Efficacy of CAM has not been proven, yet, it has even been disproven in certain cases. He also added that we need to protect the vulnerable population that is unaware of the dangers of receiving CAM, and force media regu-lation on such products. He concluded by congratulating Ibsar on their efforts to ap-ply scientific methods in bo-

tanical studies to provide ev-idence for efficacy of herbal medicine. Dr. Ibrahim concluded his argument by urging the au-dience to find real doctors, not a fraud pretending to be one. Moreover, there’s a lot of evidence and proof for the efficacy of alternative Chi-nese medicine in particular, one just has to look for it, and it doesn’t have to be FDA ap-proved. “FDA is not the ulti-mate source for medicine” as Dr. Ibrahim claimed. Dr. Hoballah commented on the safety and effective-ness of CAM by quoting the NCCAM website.” Rigorous, well-designed clinical tri-als for many CAM therapies are often lacking; therefore, the safety and effectiveness of many CAM therapies are uncertain.” He concluded, “I am not against the concept of CAM, but against fraud.”

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exhibition, photographers from all over Lebanon were invited to put their photog-raphy skills to the test, with a winning prize to the best three pictures taken. Among the three winning photogra-phers were Mohamad Al Me-dawar, Outlook’s very own webmaster, and AUB’s pho-tography club president, Sa-har El Choufi. Mohamad won a prize of two-hundred dollars, coming in at second place, and Sahar came in at third. Second for Moham-ad and third for Sahar are great not only in the ranks, but also by the state and con-dition they were in during the competition. When asked about his satisfaction with the result turn-outs, Moham-

ad claimed, “My camera is a semi-professional one. Hun-dreds of other ‘super-cool’, high-tech ones were in use, giving the others a great ad-vantage over me; that’s why I’m very happy with what I won.” The picture that made him a winner was a unique one that no other person had taken; one where Minister Tarek Mitri was signing the guestbook with the organiz-ers of the event standing be-hind him in the background, with smiles all over their fac-es. Sahar, for her part, had a more shocking story to tell. “I went unprepared with a camera low on battery, that’s what happens when you share your camera,” she stat-ed. The photograph that gave

On Tuesday, November 16, AUB students once again proved to excel

and boast their talents, not in science, sports, or academics, but in photography. The first day of the Adha vacation was the date for UNESCO’s art exhibition, hosting Lebanese artists from all over the coun-try. Culture minister Tarek Mitri was among the notable attendees. Rectroverso library hosted the event, including books published by the artists por-traying their beautiful paint-ings for spectators to take pleasure in. Among this art

her a place in the top three was a picture taken as a painter was signing his own book that displays his art work. The best three pictures taken are to be published in a book that is to be released

by the library that hosted the competition. Eventually, the photographers went home with interesting stories in mind, great paintings seen, and a definitely unforgetta-ble picture to keep for life.

AUB grabs first and second place photography awardsAnis kadadoStaff Writer

Caribou Coffee opening

After warding off hefty challenges from oth-er competitors, Cari-

bou Coffee, an American Cof-fee establishment, opened its doors on Tuesday, November 9, to all AUB students and staff. Caribou Coffee in AUB is located on the left wing of the cafeteria and has a siz-able lounge where students can study, mingle, drink and eat. Manager Nabil Hajj hopes to, “[do] everything for the students with high quality, while being healthy. At the same time, [he hopes to] pro-vide a great studying envi-ronment.” Caribou Coffee of-fers a great variety of blends, originating from kenya and Guatemala, but most of its blends come directly from the United States. Hajj also added that Caribou Coffee is a part of the organization Rainforest Alliance that as-sists, and equitably pays, cof-fee farmers. The Rainfor-est Alliance also helps many farmers give their children an education through spon-

Mohammad YaghiStaff Writer

soring students and paying their tuitions. The general reception of the new coffee shop has been pos-itive, with Mario Yachoub saying, “It’s good and it’s pretty creative with the de-sign of the drinks served. For instance, I had a sneaker de-sign at the top of my drink.” Also, many students have made the coffee shop their new hangout spot. Tania Rayes states, “I love the col-ors of the place; it makes it really cozy. It’s also so much fun just to hang out here and the staff here is really friend-ly.” Although many students and staff members have wel-comed Caribou Coffee, there have also been many com-plaints from the student body. Such complaints re-volve around the physical aspect of the place. “It looks disgusting,” says Ghanem Rafeh, who found Caribou Coffee below par in compar-ison to other coffee shops in Beirut, while Dana Dab-bous found that the best cof-

fee in the AUB vicinity is at the small shop next to the Medical Gate, “It’s cheaper, has history, and it’s yummy. Carribou Coffee is just an-other coffee shop that has no connection to the communi-ty and I could never see my-self hanging there.” Some other students feel that Car-ibou Coffee does not fairly

pay its employees and farm-ers. Lama Nassif says, “I’m against coffee distributors that underpay their staff and farmers.” In addition, there is also a number of students who simply “don’t like coffee,” as stated by Alex Ghali. The biggest objection, though, has been that most bever-ages and other items served

are too expensive, with many students feel that the sup-posedly lower rent should be translated into cheaper cof-fee for students. In a poll conducted of fifty AUB students, students were asked if the prices at Caribou Coffee were extremely gen-erous, agreeable or overly priced for students.

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(Photo by Rami Diab)

OUT LOUDThis week’s “Out Loud” is brought to you by Outlook Staff Writers Edrees El Rashidi,

Samer Bu Jawdeh, Emile Zankoul, and Wael Salem, giving you the opportunity to con-vey your opinions on AUB-related issues. Want to be heard? Find the Outlook team on campus, give them your thoughts and your picture and feedback just might be incor-

porated into Outlook’s next issue.

“We want a parking, lower tuition and lounges that can be accessed 24/7. Also, USFC and SRC should not be politicized” (Ibrahim Daghman-3rd year CCE , Mahmoud Elsoukie-3rd year ECE, Olfat khaled-2nd year Business,

and Rawan Ghazawi-3rd year Business).

“No exams at 7 pm, apply insecticides, provide more lockers and fire most of the cats”(Nour Al Ajouz and Sara Atieh).

“Continue what the USFC and SRC started last year in addi-tion to new things” (Jade Dimien, Civil Engineer 2nd year).

“Provide a new parking, and if it is far away then transport should be provid-ed” Camille Salem, Civil Engineer 2nd year).

“Provide better life conditions because we spend more time at AUB then our homes. For instance, improve the lounges, have more printing quota and ACs,

and less construction noise” (Omar Al Barmakie, 3rd year Civil).

“We need a larger parking lot that accomodates us, a legitimate place to pray in, more readily-available printers, and finally enabling iPhone applications to have proper access to AUBnet”(Ayman El Ghalayini, Computer Science

Junior).

“Improve and renovate buildings, ban smoking all over campus, prevent lit-tering …and spread love not AIDS” (Team Red Cross).

What do you ask of the USFC this year?

(All pictures by Edrees El Rashidi, Samer Bu Jawdeh, Emile Zankoul and Wael Salem)

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SPOTLIGHT

Red Cross and Ayadina sell waffles on campus for a good cause (Photo by Nadi Nassar)

President Dorman confronts students on AUB’s Founders Day 2010-11 (Photo by Nadi Nassar)

President Dorman speaks on tobacco control (Photo by Ahmad Itani - Office of Commnications)

AUB Red Cross spread free hugs not AIDS (Photo by Dima Hajj)

Lebanon’s first blogging convention (Photo by Dima Hajj)Nominees and professors counting the SRC ballots (Photo by Salim Batlouni)

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SPORTSAUB’s smashing soccer victory against LAU-Beirut

In the game of soccer, there are teams that expect to win, and there are teams

that expect to lose; but losing by a difference of five goals having scored none, is some-thing no team ever wants to experience. On Saturday, No-vember 27, in a soccer game held at Charles Hostler Stu-dents Center’s Green Field, the Lebanese American Uni-versity-Beirut (LAU) lost against the American Uni-versity of Beirut (AUB) with a score of five goals to noth-ing. Part of a soccer league consisting of a number of dif-ferent Lebanese universities, including AUB, LAU-Beirut, LAU-Jbeil, the University of

Anis kadadoStaff Writer

Balamand (UOB), Univer-site Saint Joseph (USJ), the American University of Sci-ence and Technology (AUST) and the Beirut Arab Univer-sity (BAU), this game proved that AUB is definitely a for-midable opponent, sending a clear message to all the teams taking part. The game started off with an exciting vibe, seeing the first half mostly in LAU’s half of the field, giving AUB a good possession of the ball and many chances at the goal. Both coaches at the sidelines showed interest in winning the game, shouting out orders every now and then, scream-ing at players from time to

time, and giving motiva-tion and enthusiasm at oth-er times. The benches were filled with family and friends, and the sun shone high in the sky giving the game a perfect setting for a perfect compe-tition. The opening goal was with Ibrahim Muslimani’s penalty kick, given after an LAU defender blocked the ball with his hand throwing him off the pitch with a red card. Red-hot AUB players played with style and skill, giving them the lead at the end of the first half with a leading score of two goals to nothing, both scored by Mus-limani. The LAU players en-tered the second half with

the hope of a great come-back and a possible victory, till that hope was shattered by Farouk Al khatib’s goal, increasing the gap to three goals to nothing for AUB. Great team-work was seen by the AUB players, as was wit-nessed with Angelo khalaf’s fast sprint only to intercept a great pass from the side-line by Rida Jammal, giving the AUB team its fourth goal. Ahmad Hammoud’s power-ful shot shook the net with a beautiful goal from outside the penalty box to eliminate any hope that was left for the LAU team. The game ended with a smile on the AUB players’

faces, some having expect-ed a win, but not with such a great goal difference. An-gelo khalaf at the end of the game stated, “It’s great hav-ing scored in this game, and it wasn’t a game where we showed our individual skills only, we played as a team and it paid off at the end.” Eventually, the game ended with a smashing victory for AUB, sending the LAU team back home to receive a defi-nitely harsh speech by their coach, and many more hours of hard-core practice.

Player Hussein Omais, giv-ing them a 4-0 lead. Within only a short span of time, the AUB team scored again with a kick gaining them yet an-other 2 points. The tide of the game quickly turned as the “Saints” of USJ scored two tries, each try giving them 4 points. The game was con-cluded, however, when Play-er Tawil of the AUB Rugby Team scored a final try mak-ing the final score 10 points to AUB and 8 points to USJ. The team was able to hold on to that score until the end of the game, when the final whistle was blown. The sportsmanship pres-ent, even with all the attacks each member was facing dur-ing the game, was highly pal-pable when both teams shook each other’s hands at the end of the game. Though oppo-nents during the game, both team-members showed a mu-tual respect, with only 1 idea in mind; Let the games roll!

The AUB and USJ Rug-by teams faced each other on Friday, De-

cember 4, 2010 at AUB’s Green Field creating an ex-treme and powerful aura throughout the game, which ended with AUB beating USJ with a final score of 10-8. Every Friday night the Rugby teams dominate the Green Field with games, and this Friday was no better. It all started with a massive chant being heard through-out the Charles Hostler Stu-dent Center (CHSC) as the AUB players headed towards the field. Each rugby team consists of 13 players, with a play-time of 80 minutes and a 15-minute break. It was obvious from the start that the game was highly en-thusiastic, whether from the rather huge number of audi-ence present, or from the way each player was training. Af-ter a bit of lag time with both teams fiercely attacking each other back and forth, AUB scored the first 4 point by

AUB rugby team successful yet againRami PanayotiStaff Writer

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(Photo by Ahmad Itani - office of Communication)

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لبنان لفظ مستمد من اللغات هذه وجذر ، القدمية السامية اختلف ن“. ب ”ل هو الكلمة هذه ومعنى أصل في املؤرخون منهم فالبعض التسمية. علل تسميته على هذا النحو: ”ل هو للكلمة السامي اجلذر ”األبيض“ يعني والذي ن“ ب ثلوجه بياض إلى عائد وهذا أكثر في قممه تكسو التي الصخور ولتوفر السنة فصول بكثرة. فيه البيضاء الكلسية كان القدمية العصور ومنذ يستعمل ”لبنان“ اإلسم اجلبلية الكتلة على للداللة في الكبير النهر من املمتدة تخوم لبنان، حتى شمال جبال اجلنوب. في فلسطني أرض تتألف اجلبلية الكتلة هذه السلسلة سلسلتني: من الغربية والسلسلة الشرقية

ملاذا سمي لبنان بهذا اإلسم؟سارة الديراني

كاتبة صحفية

للرواية العاملية قطر وجائزة 2005 ، و اجلائزة التقديرية من رئيس اجلمهورية اجلزائرية سنة 3 ترتكز على 1989. رواياته والزخم اإلنساني البعد أبعاد: السرد. وحميمية التاريخي والكتابة احلب بني يربط فهو رافد حي ان كل منهما ويعتبر تختزل بلغة قيكتب لآلخر والقدسية الصوفية معاني والبراءة والرقة والدقة واألناقة املوسيقية. والعذوبة واجلمال رحلته من كلماته استسقى الشام الى اجلزائر من الطويلة ثم اجلزائر وفرنسا. رحلة البحث عند الوقوف و احلقيقة عن حدود القضايا الشائكة الكبرى الصامتة احملرقة كفلسطني“ على حد تعبيره“ التي ظهرت ألشباح ”سوناتا رواية في من عامليا وطرحها القدس“

وجهة نظر فلسفية تعتبر بناء اإلنسان يجب ان يكون بعيداعن الذاتية، والنرجسية اإلدعاءات السببان الرئيسيان اللذان سببا فشل كثير من األفراد واجملتمعات فالعرب بحاجة الى استخالص هواجسهم وتخطي العبر األعرج الشمل. يستند ومللمة وثقافته فكره في التاريخ الى في كمسار فيأخذه وكتاباته روايته التي تكشف النقاب عن وللوطن للمرأة عاشق انسان القدم، لكرة وأيضا وللعروبة اطبائه نصائح جتاهل حيث بالراحة بعد نكسته الصحية، األخيرة املباراة بحضور وقام ملنتخب بالده ضد انكلترا قائال ” يلعن أبو األطباء“. أسأل اهلل واسني قلب نبضات تبقى ان منتظمة حتى ال يقع حتت رحمة

األطباء وأباءهم.

صادم منفلت حالم رومانسي باألبطال واقعه ميزج وروائي إعجاب لينال وجدية بسخرية الكثير من القراء والنقاد. ”مرمي“ مرة مؤلفاته. اغلب في تظهر بني فتتنقل حتيا، وأخرى متوت ”جسد احلرائق“ 1978، و“طوق الياسمني“ 1982، و“نوار اللوز“ السابعة و“الليلة ،19831993، و“سيدة األلف“ بعد و“حارسة املقام“،1995 و“شرفات ،1996 الظالل“ 2001،وغيرها الشمال“ بحر العربية باللغة املؤلفات من واسني حصل والفرنسية. أدبية جوائز عدة على األعرج منها: جائزة الشيخ زايد لألداب عن روايته ”األمير“ سنة 2007،

كاتب من هذا الزمان : واسني األعرجنهاد غازي عواد

مساهمة صحفية

(Djazairess.com) واسني األعرج

(سارة الديراني)

وجود فهو اآلخر التعليل . أما شجر البخور في لبنان : فاللبان وهي بالعربية ”البخور“ يعني لزجة تستخرج من شجر مادة أقوال .وبحسب ”اللبنى“ املؤرخني فان هذه الشجرة كانت وكان لبنان في بكثرة موجودة للتبخير يستوردونها االغريق منافعها من ولإلستفادة الطبية.أما التعليل األخير لهذه التسمية فهو أن السريانيون قد أطلقوا اإلسم على هذه البالد ، وهذا اإلسم ناجت عن مصطلح سرياني أال وهو ”لب أنان“ يعني هذه أطلقوا وقد اهلل قلب ألنهم البالد على التسمية األرض أنها يعتقدون كانوا ولتمتعه ، احلياة إلله احملببة مبزايا خاصة غير متوفرة في أي

مناطقة من مناطق العالم .

“عند احلب حياة يهون من أجلها املوت، وموت تباع من أجله --عباس محمود العقاداحلياة”

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حدثنا ليث بن الهزبر األسدي قال: وأفقت من حلمي.. رفعت

املقامة العربية – اجلزء الثاني

عامر الصريعكاتب صحفي

في وضعنا ولو إنسانيتنا من سابع ظلمة من سابع أرض في هي ولكن، محتكم. قيد ألف حرية نحن منلكها، وبهذا، نحن وبيدنا بيدنا، فهي نحفظها نسكبها! احلرية تعني أن متلك ما مناقشة في جريئا فكرا علمت وحكيما لتنقد نفسك، في فكرك حترك أن في جريئا أن تسأل كل مجال تكون فيه، وتعاريفها. األشياء معاني عن أن تفكر أنت، ويكون لك فكرك، ال متض مع الناس ألنهم كذلك مضوا، إمض إن كنت تريد هذا. تشرق إرادة هي حرا تكون أن كما الشمس على اجلميع، فهي تعطي وال تقبل إعتراضات أهل

الظالم عليها.هي جامعتنا، إنتخابات وتأتي

أن ميكنه ما كأقصى اجلامعة يفعل.

بعنوان إنتخاب حسن! سياسي وباطن جامعي أن يحاولون متعصب، طائفي إذا دميوقراطيا. واقعا يفرضوه ونظرنا النقاش، هذا تخطينا الذي إلى صالحيات هذا اجمللس فيه، املقاعد لكسب نتقاتل ماذا ميكنه أن يفعل أو أن يقدم لطالبه ؟ أليس األهم أن تناقش الشكلي صالحيات هذا اجمللس صالحيات ينتخب؟ أن قبل بجسد ولد ومجلس مفككة مخلع، واجلاني هو ذاك التخلف في تطبيق العقلية السياسية

العمياء. فلنفكر، ولو حلظيا!حني إنسانيتكم إكسبوا إال تكسب ال وتلك تنتخبون،

وهو حريته أعطه بالعقل، اليأس برغم الواقع سيغير سيفرق فقط وهو املستشري، الظروف الباطل.هي و بني احلق والواقع املرهقة اإلقتصادية السياسي املزعج بعد اجلامعة، انتخبتم؟ ملا يوما ستسألكم فاسألوا هذا السؤال ألنفسكم لم إمتحان يسقطكم أن قبل الطالب، العدة. أيها له جتهزوا كلنا متعبون من جنون واقعنا، فهل من عاقل ؟ نداء من طالب لسياسة عبدا يكون أن أبى وقد حمقاء، فكيف أكون عبدا

خلقني اهلل حرا؟

اهلل خلقني فقد أنا. حر تسلب ال حرية وتلك حرا،

إنعكاس نكون، أن نحاول كما سياسي لواقع ساذج أبله لبناني مريض. يتتابع إستعبادنا بغير أفكارنا ترسم أن ونرضى ،“ ”ليستا زي ما هي أيدينا. الـ القصة هي ذاتها، وسؤالك عن في وضعك يستوجب السبب مظالم وحتميلك اخليانة دائرة وسؤالك واحلاضر! املاضي يستوجب رد الطائفة بأحرق ما أو حزبك ورد كلمات، من متلك الرد، يكون ما بألذع جماعتك العصبية تلك خلفهما ومن التي تقتل الصدق بني النفوس مفتتا، طالبيا مجلسا لتنتج لطالبه. إال شيئ لكل يعمل قتال وصراع على مجلس أقصى ”متنيات يوصل أن صالحياته إدارة مجلس إلى الطالب“

أن تكون حرا .. وحني تنتخب

مصطفى فضل اهللكاتب صحفي

وأنا كأسي، وشربت رأسي، اتعوذ مما جال في نفسي، فلقد وفي البارحة، البالد شهدت حلمت جارحة. غصة حلقي بوطن جميل، خيره ليس بقليل، عربي كالعليل، فيه والناس

مواطنه أصيل.حتى وحلمت.. وحلمت.. صارت حتى حلمي، في ضعت وأمتنا القمم، من أعلى بالدنا أين لكن األمم. عصبة من خير املفر أين الغجر، وأمتي املفر وقبيلتي النور. احتفلنا منذ زمن فارتقينا اجلاهلية، من بارتقائنا فادعينا البربرية، إلى ذلك بعد احلضارة بكل عنجهية. ووسائل اإلعالم خير شاهد، قدح وذم في العالنية. ساسة وملوك وأئمة، احلمى، كما الفساد نشروا

أخي فانظر وكنا، كنا يقولون إالما وصلنا.

بتطبيق زمن منذ احتفلنا أهذه عجبا فيا الدميوقراطية، ووحدتنا حريتنا طبقنا احلرية؟ أيأكل كسبنا؟ فماذا الوطنية، أم الدولية؟ احملاكم أطفالنا وصحن الزور بشهود يتغدون لي كيف ساندنا قل امللوخية؟ غزة؟ مبزيد من اإلستنكار وجدران بعزف الزعماء تفن عنصرية؟ املالم، ورد التعازي وزف الكالم، الكالم، سئم هزيل وقومي

وربعي أصيل يأبى احلرام.وشرف احلرب شرف نسينا بدمائنا حياضنا سقاية بكل العدى فصاحلنا الزكية، أريحية، واكتفينا بتنديد أمريكا وشجبها من جامعتنا العربية،

دعمنا قد بذلك أنا لنظهر القضية. هنيئا لكم بنو وطني، فها زمني، سادة لكم هنيئا امتدت التي دولتنا وصلت قد يوما من الهند إلى األندلس إلى احلدود، تكاثرت الهاوية. قعر وعظم اجلمود، وإلنا إلى الركود، العرب بالد العرب. بلدة في الهوى وعربي أوطاني، تعد لم ليس عنواني. صار الرحيل لبالد أرض زيارة من أسهل الفرجنة،

جيراني.مشردا تائها العربي صار يعد ولم أوطانه، في غريبا أخبزا مباله، يصنع ما يدري ليأكل؟ أم سما ليموت وينتحر. بتطبيق يحتفلون وحكامنا الدميوقراطية. دمر العراق، ودمر ومزق السودان، مزق اليمن،

لبنان، وفلسطني ذهبت من غير رجعة.

وعم وطني، في اجلهل عم وكاألنعام وطني. في الفقر البعير كمثل البشر، يساق ومثل البقر، وشعبي حرام عليه النظر، ألنصاف رجال تروم البطر، احلجر، وقذف السياط بضرب فكم القدر، وفوق أميرا تصير فينسى القمر، متنى أمير من دماه دماء الغجر، فيعلوا ويغلوا بكل الصور، وشعبه يقبع حتت الكدر، ودمع الفقر آمله اخلطر، وانحصر، جف العيون ودمع فال وانتظر، خرس ضئيل بأمل من شفيع إذا ما انقهر، فإن طار الدجاج وباض األمر، جاء ملك ال زمان فهذا الشجر، بأعلى حياء به، وهذا زمان جنون البقر.

“لنحذر أن يكون شعورنا جتاه الناس شعور صاحب القلب الغليظ أو القلب القاسي، بل ليكن شعور القلب احلنون، الذي يقدر ظروفهم، ويقدر ظروف الضالل التي عاشوها،

حتى نستطيع أن نقوم مبهمتنا.”--السيد محمد حسني فضل اهلل

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منح االحتاد الدولي لكرة القدم املاضي اخلميس يوم (فيفا) نهائيات بطولة حق استضافة كأس العالم املقررة عام 2022 إلى قطر بعد فوز ملفها بأعلى عملية خالل األصوات من عدد يومها جرت التي التصويت التنفيذية اللجنة أعضاء بني

للفيفا.على القطري امللف وتنافس مع البطولة استضافة حق مقدمة أخرى ملفات أربعة وأستراليا املتحدة الواليات من

وكوريا اجلنوبية واليابان.وجرى التصويت بني 22 عضوا للفيفا التنفيذية باللجنة بعد قرار جلنة القيم في الفيفا آدامو آموس النيجيري بإيقاف اللجنة عضوي والتاهيتي من وحرمانهما وتغرميهما املشاركة في عملية التصويت

كأس العالم 2022 في قطر و2018 في روسيا

صحيفة كشفته ما بعد البريطانية تاميز“ ”صنداي املاضي أول/أكتوبر تشرين في للبيع صوتيهما عرضهما عن مقابل بعينه ملف لصالح مالية مبالغ على احلصول إقامة في استغاللها بدعوى في رياضية ومرافق منشآت اجتماع وشهد بلديهما. التصويت التنفيذية اللجنة من كل استضافة حق على 2018 العالم كأس بطولتي و2022 .وأسفرت اجلولة األولى امللف خروج عن التصويت من أبرز أحد كان الذي األسترالي املرشحني الستضافة البطولة.

وتبعه امللف الكوري اجلنوبي في اجلولة الثانية من التصويت ثم امللف الياباني من اجلولة الثالثة للتصويت ليشتعل الصراع بني قطر والواليات املتحدة على حق

االستضافة بوصولهما للجولة الرابعة األخيرة

لكرة الدولي االحتاد منح كما استضافة حق (فيفا) القدم العالم كأس بطولة نهائيات روسيا إلى 2018 عام املقررة

بعد فوز امللف الروسي .وامتد التصويت على استضافة بعدما جوالت لثالث البطولة فشل أي من امللفات املتنافسة في احلصول على أكثر من نصف التنفيذية اللجنة أصوات عدد والثانية. األولى اجلولتني عبر وتنافس امللف الروسي على حق ثالثة مع البطولة استضافة ملفات أخرى مقدمة من إجنلترا و(هولندا/ و(أسبانيا/البرتغال)

بلجيكا).

مصطفى فضل اهللكاتب صحفي

تتمة من ص١

منع التدخني فياألماكن العامة

قسم الباثولوجية في اجلامعة، فصرح قائال، وبألم، أنه من احملزن واملؤسف أن يجد خالل متثيله لبنان في اجتماعات دولية، أن لبنان، هو من البالد القليلة التدخني إجراءت حلظر تتخذ ال التي والتشديد على مضاره في االماكن جند أن أيضا، املؤسف ومن العامة. لبنانيا مواطنا ٣٥٠٠٠٠ من أكثر لعدد ونظرا املدخنني، لفئة ينتمي نسبة العدد هذا يشكل سكانه، كبيرة وظاهرة خطيرة في حال عدم إتخاذ اجراءت مناسبة. وما يزيد األمر املروجة اإلعالنات إحتالل هو سوءا مرئية ، الوسائل جميع للتدخني العبارات مسموعة،وغياب أم كانت

التحذيرية عن هذه املنتجات. أما النائب عاطف مجدالني، فأكد أن الظروف التي أخرت هذا القانون هي على وشدد بحتة. سياسية ظروف النواب لتحقيق الدور الذي سيلعبه هذا القانون الذي يشكل حلما لكل وصحة نظيف بوطن حلم مواطن النائب دور على أكد كما سليمة. سمير اجلسر في تشكيل جلنة فرعية لهذا األساسية الصياغة ووضع أما الثغرات. مراجعة مع القانون يشمل صارما، فسيكون ، القانون أماكن العمل و وسائل النقل العامة على انواعها. وسيطبق القانون فورا إلى ٣ مهلة إعطاء مع تصديقه، الترويجية، اإلعالنات ملنع أشهر ٦وحظر بيع الدخان، في جميع األماكن العمر.وصرح ال-١8 من دون ملن هم النائب مجدالني قائال : ” هذا القانون فوضى من اللبناني اجملتمع سينقل التدخني إلى اإللتزام بالقانون كباقي صحة على حفاظا املتقدمة، الدول

اجلامعة شكر كما مواطنه“. األميركية على دعمها لهذا املوضوع أهمية حتذير على األساسي مشددا

الشباب عن مخاطر التدخني.عبر فقد خليفة، للوزير وفي حديث عن شعوره باإلحراج عند متثيله لبنان لكنه تقصير. بوجود وإعترف دوليا، أكد أن وزارة الصحة تقوم باإللتزامات البعض اعتبار حال وفي الدولية. سلبا سينعكس القانون هذا أن واملؤسسات املطاعم أصحاب على االحصاءات جميع فإن السياحية، أكدت عكس ذلك. كما أنه شدد على املباشر وارتباطها التدخني مضار بسرطان املبولة والرئة وهما بشكل أساسي األكثر إنتشارا في لبنان، من هنا تكمن أهمية هذا القانون للحد

من األمراض السرطانية والقلبية.ممثلة بارود رانيا السيدة واختتمت تدخني“، بال حرة ”حياة جمعية عندو القانون هيدا ” وقالت: شعبية!“ مقترحة عدة شروط منها اإلعالنات ومنع بتاتا التدخني حد وجعل اإلعالنية والرعاية الترويجية التدخني علبة مساحة من ٪ ٤٠حالة عن تعبر للمواطن حية صورة للتدخني، اسبابها تعود مرضية فيكون املواطن اللبناني على علم مبا

يدخل أحشاءه.في اخلتام، أقام النواب بتوقيع العريضة القانون ليؤكد على التي تدعم هذا السؤال... ليبقى تطبيقه، أهمية

حقيقة القانون هذا سيصبح متى بصحة اللبناني املواطن لينعم نيران شبابه تلتهم أن قبل ، جيدة السجائر؟ وإلى متى سيظل املواطن ضحية التقلبات السياسية في هذا احملاضرة، تكون هذه أن البلد؟ عسى إنطالقا من عتبة اجلامعة األميركية

مفتاح حل لهذه املشكلة.

عيد أم األضحى عيد اخلروف عيد أهو التضحية؟ إنه كل هذا أم عيد املعمول؟

وأكثر...نظم ، العيد بهذا إحتفاال ”Insight Club“ بالتعاون مع ”النادي الثقافي اجلنوبي“ و السعودي“ الثقافي ”النادي مجموعة الشباب“ ”نادي و هذه أول . متنوعة نشاطات معمول توزيع كان األنشطة

أربع نواد حتتفل باألضحى هذا العاممنى أيوب

مساهمة صحفية

العيد والهدايا التذكارية على طالب و أساتذة اجلامعة نهار 2010 /11/11 اخلميس أمام مبنى الوست هول. ميرنا علقت املنظمات، إحدى بدر، كان ” فقالت: النشاط على من بأقل رائعا... التجاوب ساعة، كانت جميع الهدايا قد وزعت .... أردنا أن نشارك جميع

الطالب فرحتنا بهذا العيد“.من العاشر في و سنة، كل القمري، احلجة ذي شهر يحتفل املسلمون حول العالم هذا . املبارك األضحى بعيد النبي لقصة إحياء هو العيد

ببيع أيضا املنظمون قام التبرعات جلمع ”الكنافة“ اخليرية. النشاطات لصالح مثال “Insight Club”نظم مشروع ” كسوة اليتيم“ حيث قام الطالب نهار اجلمعة بشراء ” ثياب العيد“ من األموال اجملموعة. عن هذا املشروع، قال : ”إنه لشيء أحد املشاركني جميل أن ترسم البسمة على هي هذه يتيم... طفل وجه

روح العيد احلقيقية“.و ختام النشاطات كان للمرح، بحيث ، واملعلومات للتسلية مميزة تسالي“ ”ليلة أقيمت

ابنه لذبح ذهب الذي إبراهيم ففداه له، اهلل ألمر تنفيذا عوضا (خروف) بكبش اهلل لقبوله هدية ولده ذبحه عن الصعبة. التضحية هذه يستحضر القصة، هذه ومن التضحية معاني املسلمون و واخلير والتسامح والتعاون غيرها ... فيذبح العديد منهم اخلراف و يوزعون حلومها على أنهم كما واحملتاجني. الفقراء يشاركون في هذا اليوم فرحة احلجاج بإمتامهم مراسم احلج

في مكة املكرمة .األول، النشاط مع بالتزامن و

نهار اخلميس الساعة اخلامسة مساء في الوست الهول.

الضوء تسليط املنظمون أراد هذه السنة على أربع من قيم والعفو التضحية : العيد والعائلة واإلنفاق. وهذا ما عبرت عنه الرسومات على ملصقات العيد والشعارات املرافقة لها: العيد يوم الفقراء... أعط ”يوم .. ”سامح و يوم“ وكل

العيد و كل يوم“وغيرها....

”Insight Club“ يتمنى كل و مباركا. عيدا للجميع

عام وأنتم بخير.

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The task the trio undertakes is a difficult one, mainly be-cause they do not have a spe-cific plan, and cannot receive any help since they are alone. Soon tensions start building up between the three friends, and hope starts wearing off. When writing a screenplay based on a novel, the issue of faithfulness to the book ris-es. Although Steve kloves managed to respect and con-serve the plot and the gener-al atmosphere of J. k. Rowl-ing’s novel, he also managed to alter, add and omit many details. The subtle romance in the book was transformed into cheesy and awkward scenes in the movie, like a dance scene between Harry and Hermione, and a roman-tic speech Ron makes to Her-mione. In addition to that, there were a few funny jokes in the film that lifted the spir-its of both characters and au-dience. There were also many scary scenes and action vio-lence sequences that made the movie darker and more thrilling than the previous ones. The special effects and the image were excellent, es-

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” was released worldwide on Friday, November 19, but in Lebanon it was released one day earlier, to the delight of Lebanese Harry Potter fans. It is the seventh of the eight movies of the Harry Potter se-ries, based on the bestselling novels by J. k. Rowling. Orig-inally, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was meant to be only one film, but due to the size of the book, it was split in two parts. The mov-ie is directed by David Yates, who also directed two other Harry Potter movies: “Har-ry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in 2007, and “Har-ry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” in 2009. The film stars Daniel Radc-liffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Grang-er, and Rupert Grint as Ron-ald Weasley, three 17 year old wizards who go on a jour-ney to destroy the dark Lord Voldemort, who has split his soul in seven pieces called Horcruxes. On this journey, they discover three powerful tools: the Deathly Hallows.

pecially during the duels and the shots of beautiful scen-ery. The music, composed by Alexandre Desplat, was not as epic as expected, the tra-ditional Harry Potter theme music being completely ab-sent. The acting of the trio improved over the years, but it still did not perfectly car-ry the emotions of the char-acters from the books. As for the older cast members (Hel-ena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Imelda Staunton), they were brilliant as usual. Making 61 million dollars on its first day, “Harry Pot-ter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” had the fifth larg-est box office entrance ever. With the seven books com-pleted and the movies almost finished (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” is expected to be released in July of 2011,) this movie marks the penultimate chap-ter of a long journey, which is sad for the generation who grew up with Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Movie Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Rayane Zahreddine

dec 9, 2010

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This article was first published in Hibr issue of December 2010 (www.hibr.me) . Patricia Nabti is the Director of the As-sociation for Volunteer Services (www.avs.org.lb) and the Coordinator of The Arab Initiative to Foster a Culture of Vol-unteering (www.arabvolunteer.org).

The fact is, no-one ever does anything for nothing. But the answer to “Why volunteer?” is very different for dif-ferent people, in different stages of their lives, and in different personal circumstances – and in most cases they volunteer for multiple reasons, not just one. So let us focus on youth, the age group that Outlook targets.”

Are you studying to pass a test or get a degree? Volunteering to teach others is the best way to retain what you have learned. Are you more broadly interested in “learning” – which goes far beyond passing a test or getting a degree? Volunteering provides endless opportunities to learn about people outside your own social circle (the elderly, the dis-abled, refugees, orphans, etc.) and different problems in your society (poverty, illiteracy, corruption, environmental degradation, etc.). In addition, getting out of your comfort zone lets you learn more about yourself (what you believe, what you like, and what really matters to you).

Are you confused about what you want to major in or what kind of job you want after you graduate? Volunteering is a great way to test out different possibilities. Find out what it is really like to work in the medical field by volunteering at a hospital; what it is like to teach, by tutoring someone or assisting a teacher. You will not only gain insights about the work, but you will also interact directly with people in your chosen profession who can answer your questions and give you advice.

Are you looking for work? Take a break from job hunting one or two days a week to volunteer in a related field. Through volunteering you can develop new skills, get valuable experience, gain self-confidence, and have something worth talking about in future job interviews. And, if you are feeling that no-one gets a job without “wasta” then you should know that there are two types of wasta – unearned and earned. earned wasta is what you get by being the son or daughter of someone important. The earned wasta is what you get by impressing others with your ability, commit-ment, and work ethic.

Do you want to make new friends? What better way to find quality friends who are caring, interesting, and worth spending time with than through volunteering? And volunteering can be a lot of fun.

More than all that… while you are gaining all those benefits, there is no feeling better than the joy of giving and the empowerment and satisfaction that come from knowing that something you have done, no matter how small, has made a positive impact on others, on your community, and on society as a whole.

Are you convinced to try? Here are some tips for choosing the right volunteer opportunity for you:1) Do a personal assessment of your interests, your abilities, your personal objectives in volunteering, when you are available, and how far you can travel to volun-teer.2) Check out the opportunities available. A good source in Lebanon is www.lebanon-support.org, which has a great list of civil society organizations to check out. And in Jordan, see www.nakhweh.com.3) Make the contact, express your interest in volunteering, send them your CV, and explore with them what opportunities they have that fit your personal assess-ment.4) And when you do finally volunteer, show them that you are Capable, Available, Reliable, and Engaged – that you really care !

As anyone who walks around AUB’s campus can attest, cats are a regular feature of AUB’s outdoor environment. While many find the array of cats a welcome sight at AUB, adding as it were a certain warm ambiance to campus life, others are wary of the creatures, some even considering them a menace. To accommo-date both views concerning AUB’s cat population, and to honor AUB’s commitment toward the humane and ethical treatment of animals, the administration

has been working diligently to establish sound cat management practices. First, the cat feeding stations have been relocated from the periphery of AUB’s campus to remote areas toward the interior of the campus to minimize contact between humans and cats, to stop the recruitment of non-AUB cats, and to eliminate the unpleas-ant sight of cat food in human traffic areas. Second, the administration is having covered “cat cafés” constructed and placed at the feeding stations to consolidate cats at feeding time and to reduce loss of cat food due to inclement weather. Finally, in collaboration with AUB’s Animal Welfare Club (AWC), the university has estab-lished a spaying and neutering practice in order to prevent an increase in the cat population on campus. While AUB remains committed toward caring for AUB’s cats as a matter of principle and tradition, the university also recognizes that some cats might carry health risks for humans and can have a negative environmental impact. Furthermore, it is acknowledged that AUB’s cats are feral (that is, semi-wild) and are not pets. Therefore, to further minimize human-cat contact on campus, administration is implementing a strict policy against the feeding of feral cats by anyone other than the authorized AUB cat feeders. In addition, the depositing of raw meats on campus for the purpose of feeding feral cats is prohibited. Signs will be posted throughout the campus as a reminder of this policy. Cats are a part of AUB – a welcome sight for some, an unsettling prospect for others. However you feel about cats, if you are interested in learning how and why we should care about animals and animal welfare, please consider joining the Animal Welfare Club (AWC), founded in 2001 as a student club. The main goals of the club are to care for cats on campus (feeding, monitoring, treating sick animals, fostering motherless kittens), to control the cat population of AUB through humane meth-ods such as spaying and neutering, and to educate people about how to care for cats. A website for the club will soon be underway. In the meantime, if you care to join the AWC, please contact Dr. Rosemarie Jaouhari at rr15@aub.edu.lb, and you will receive more information about the club and how you can get involved.

International Volunteer Day

Cats at AUB

Patricia Nabti

Kathryn Lincoln

dec 9, 2010

”Life is an adventure, and if you are not prepared to take risks you ought to get into your grave as quick as you can“

--St. John Irvine

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Lama T. ZakhariaStaff Writer

Lara TraboulsiStaff Writer

Nowadays, Blackber-ry users are start-ing to develop spe-

cial physical powers like no

In a previous article I quoted my strategic management professor

Dr. Philippe Zougheib saying

Be blackberry or be banished

Surviving dreaded interview processes

other. Thumb muscles and joints are growing increas-ingly tough as fingers stab sharply, as well as precisely, onto minute keyboards. This activity ultimately leads to the enhancement of fine mo-tor skills and coordination. Additionally, it seems that expert users can walk for miles at length without feel-ing the need to look up and yet still manage not to bump into anyone or get hit by a car (God forbid). Let us not for-get the much sought-after talent of typing in class as you pretend to pay attention but, in reality, you have your hands under the table send-ing sweet messages to your lover. We’ve all been there,

“we are being packaged for export.” As more and more of my friends are taking up jobs abroad, I can’t help but stand behind these words. Grad-uating from university has been somewhat of a dread-ed ordeal as fresh graduates suffer through interviews and hiring processes that last months and don’t end up pay-ing. Friends that have grad-uated last year are still in the market looking for jobs. Frustrated from the lack of available jobs in Lebanon, they have turned to the for-eign market to find jobs that pay better and offer more se-curity. I am writing this now, since now is about the time seniors like me start apply-

including me. I will be exhibiting pure hy-pocrisy if I tell you that I’m not one of those addicted us-ers. I wouldn’t know so much of the cons if I wasn’t part of this fiasco. In fact, I am one of those people who (some-times) finds it hard to engage in the minimal amount of eye contact required to carry out a decent conversation with a friend. At times, no mat-ter what the person in front of me says or does, I cannot help but remain mesmerized (with my eyes glued to the screen) by this special allur-ing machine nicknamed as Blackberry. What is so spe-cial about it, after all? Up until now, I have had

discussions with dozens of non-Blackberry users (most of whom were iPhone users) trying to defensively explain the secret to why I worship this machine. Tirelessly, I have tried to convince them that the Lebanese telephone and communication services make it relatively financially impossible to communicate freely with those around you without getting a heart at-tack as soon as you see your bill come out. It is either that someone finds a solution to this mobile business mad-ness or we will remain ma-chine zombies with our necks bent down for as long as we live. To all of you Blackberry us-

ers, addicts, and soon-to-be addicts out there, hear me out. It is true that this won-derful piece of technology al-lows you to send funny, dirty, and reminiscent pictures to one another all the time, but it will limit you socially in many ways. You will miss out on real life events if you re-place them with a few mean-ingless conversations and chit chats. In other words, this tool can be a wonderful communication-facilitating instrument, or it can trans-form into a mobile-shaped devil waiting to distract you from what really matters in life. It’s all in your hands.

ing for jobs. After you polish off your CV, write up your cover letter, cross your fin-gers and send it out, you are faced with months of wait-ing. One thing that many of my friends and veterans of a myriad of interview pro-cesses have realized is that grades are not a primary con-cern for many companies. Of course there are some compa-nies that only hire the cream of the crop and have an eye set on how high your GPA is. However, what seems to mat-ter more to some internation-al as well as local companies is how involved you were dur-ing the past few years. They realize that as graduates we

might not have enough work experience to brag about. But what they do expect of poten-tial hires is an involvement in campus life. Whether you were part of the Red Cross or a member in the basketball team is something that com-panies value. Being part of a team, however big or small, shows them that you are able and willing to work in teams and deliver a product that you can be proud of. They are always impressed when you take the initiative to be a part of something bigger. How you decide to achieve that is up to you. So I urge you to start from now. Find something that you are pas-sionate about, immerse your-

self and become a part of it. It doesn’t matter what it is, and it doesn’t matter how rel-evant it is to your field. Any-thing that you give your time to will prove beneficial to you in the long run. A final note that I would like to share came from a Mck-insey consultant, Rachid Maalouli, who was coaching me through an interview pro-cess. He told me don’t ever think that the interviewer is better than you. He or she might be more experienced than you but somewhere along the line they start-ed out in your place. Be con-fidant in your potential, be-lieve in your capabilities, and you will get the job you want.

dec 9, 2010

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Give and let give

A word on our elections period, both the SRC and USFC elections

that is; all is well that ends well but this is just the begin-ning. With well over a semes-ter’s grace period, we have all the time we need to shuttle our university to unexplored heights. To give, grant and provide for AUB and its com-munity as it has done for us. And in giving, let us remem-ber that to give of ourselves is joy greater than molting off our possessions. True, being at the heart of a blood drive is no nobler than organiz-ing a donation campaign for the needy, but who can ar-gue that giving blood doesn’t provide a more powerful re-alization of our self-worth than donating a stuffed an-imal? And what are our pos-sessions anyhow but items swaying to and fro from gen-eration to generation long after their possessors have reached their deathly abode? What we claim as ours may be ours for now, but not for long, surely not for long. When our possessions fail to resurrect our names from the past, the times we spent selflessly im-mersed in giving surely will not. What is to be remem-bered? The speeches we give during Speaker’s Corner or the worn out English books we disown at a CCECS book drive? The warm Christmas carol we sing to a bunch of cancer-stricken kids at St. Jude’s Hospital or the one too many candy canes we de-cided we could get rid of by

Heather JaberNews Eexecutive

Lana El SahelyStaff Writer

Rami DiabEditor-in-Chief It’s always the same reac-

tion. A friend walks into my house for the first

time, glances around with a surprised look on his/her face, and asks, “Why do you have so many books?” I nev-er thought twice about the hundreds of books my fami-ly and I have on the shelves at home; I grew up on books. My mother can read a book a day, a book of any genre or length. Coming to Lebanon, though, I soon realized read-ing for pleasure was some-

Who are we? What de-fines our personal-ities, our reactions

to things, our general behav-ior, our Identity? Defining identity is a very vast subject in philosophy and it has been handled so differently through history.Roughly speaking, identity is this collective aspect of all

giving it to our neighbour(s)? And remember the best gift is the one that goes unknown by its recipient. If we are re-duced to a society that serves to give only so long as it re-ceives, then we rob ourselves of the joy of giving and a soci-ety that knows not the joy of giving is at a loss of knowing the joy of receipt. I look forward to a day when we students begin arguing over what we will give rather than what we shall receive. As true comrades of this univer-sity we are to be givers first and to be givers last. We are expected never to cease giv-ing of our charisma and ener-gy to this great institution for as long as we remain a part of it and long after. Let us set our eyes on the path of giving to find ourselves effortlessly receiving every fresh breath of life. Soon enough, we will have to live to see the fruits of our labours. Fruits that grew from the once tiny seed-lings of hope we first plant-ed in the soils of this beloved university.

Reading not just for Lit Majors

Who are you?!

thing of an oddity. Why read if it’s not assigned work? My mom, for example, was sitting in a waiting room one day, reading a book, when a man seated across from her said, “Well, you’re obviously not Lebanese.” My mom ex-pected a remark about her looks, possibly something about her red hair, but the man went on to say, “It’s be-cause you’re reading a book!” I don’t want to sound like every other teacher I’ve had, preaching about the impor-tance of reading, but hon-estly, the benefits stretch further than the obvious aca-demic and intellectual gains. There are so many different kinds of stories in the world, books that can make you have a completely different perspective and change your life. Every book has its place, from the light beach-read, to the adrenaline-inducing ac-tion genre that keeps you turning the pages. Then there

the set of characteristics that makes us recognizable and unique. It makes each one of us looking as a persisting en-tity under all various condi-tions of life.But what I’ve been asking myself is to what extent is that identity fixed and un-changeable? For example, all Lebanese praise their national identity but I think we must be aware that we were not really born as such. It is more about these sets of traditions, hab-its and beliefs that we wit-ness in our daily lives. These Sunday lunches in family, these never-ending nights in Gemmayzeh and Monot, this craving for life every time the political situation hurts us, this mastering of many lan-guages, this short distance between the sea and the mountains that we worship, the dozens of people that stop to help you every time your

is the book that can draw you into its world and make you forget about reality for those 300 or so pages, the book that changes your life and be-comes a recurring visitor, the one you return to every now and then to feel what you felt the first time you read it. It’s hard to imagine never having met Holden Caulfield, wandered through Wonderland, or enjoyed the wit of Elizabeth Bennett. Once a character or place comes to life so vividly, it’d be hard to forget the feeling you had upon first read. You can tell a lot about a person by their list of favorite books. There’s also that list you have that you don’t real-ly broadcast, the list of guilty pleasures you can’t help but love. I’m not saying Harry Potter is on the top of my se-cret list...I’m not saying that at all..

car shuts down in the mid-dle of the road and many oth-er experiences that make us feel that we belong to a specif-ic identity. I think that we don’t have a coherent identity but that we’re always identifying our-selves through experiences to which we attach meanings. Every time we witness, ex-perience, live something new or radical or different, there is a certain meaning that we give to it and it will then go through an identification process. To be more tangible, take this example: when you start explaining to your baby girl that what’s under her skirt shouldn’t be seen you are here helping her to iden-tity herself to her female at-tributes. When we see cas-es of identity crisis, it can be explained with the fact that these persons weren’t able to identify correctly what con-stitute them.

But who creates these mean-ings for us? What are the at-tributes that help us through this identification process? Schools, universities, our families, governments, reli-gion, medias and many oth-er social institutions help us build our identities through time. When your parents have at-tended AUB for their studies, there’s automatically some-thing that they will build in you since your childhood for you to follow a certain path. During my interview to get in Outlook, I was asked to de-fine myself. I was surprised that I couldn’t stop talking and this made me realize how many small experiences con-structed the person that I am now. I wasn’t able to summa-rize myself in a unique and simple identity. I came to believe that iden-tity seeking ends up with our death and what an endless

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