The Role of Universities, Students, and Activism in Context of Campus Politics & the Ongoing Social Movements

Academic analysis by Layal Chalfoun, Maria Mouzannar, and Sarah El-Abd

December 29th, 2019

“As protests broke out in the streets on the 17th of October, demonstrators joined the movement from the north of Lebanon to the south. The earliest of protests were against the chronic shortage of electricity, the unemployment rates, corruption in every sphere of policy making, and the mounting national debt, which ranks of the 3rd largest in the world in proportion to the GDP. As the country began witnessing monumentally changing behaviors, attitudes, and views, campus life followed. Coinciding with the very week of student election at the American University of Beirut, an already heavily politicized campus, the uprisings and student involvement soon became intertwined.”

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