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Every one of you reading this today can understand this simple sentence. However, almost two thirds (59 percent) of children in the Arab world are in ‘learning poverty’—which means they…

In Lebanon, the non-governmental sector has been booming since 2011 from the year the Syrian refugees influx started. This sector is employing Lebanese staff and paying them in real US…

The Lebanese economy is changing. Our education system must follow suit. The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) is committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)…

The 21st century will cause a rupture in the way we think, feel, behave, create, produce, and live. Fire took eons to start changing humanity—tools, a little less. The first…

My father returned to Lebanon in 1994, 10 years after the civil war forcibly exiled him to France. He thought that his PhD from Sorbonne University, coupled with extensive academic…

There has never been a better time to critically assess how and where we get our news and information than these times when social media has become the main source…

The impacts of universities on the surrounding environment go far beyond their gates. Their contribution to the local economy—understood as both direct and indirect effects on employment and overall economic…