Club Day…

Photo by EOD

Today is club day at the American University of Beirut–and seeing the students set up their stands this morning to recruit new club members was a welcome reminder of the astounding diversity of AUB’s student body. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any campus in the world more diverse than AUB. With 18 official religious confessions in Lebanon alone, our students bring a range of different religious, cultural, national, and ethnic backgrounds and worldly experiences to the classroom. Because our students come from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and beyond, there are too many cultural clubs to mention them all by name. Sometimes the classroom here can feel like a mini-meeting at the United Nations. How fortunate we are to have so many diverse points of view to draw upon in our collective and dynamic quest for knowledge and understanding–which is just one of the many reasons why AUB is one of the coolest places in the world…

Photo by EOD

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