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New Generation Story Telling
Issue 52
June 2011
On Friday, 8th April, 2011, NDU North Campus in Koura welcomed seventy high school students of both sexes
from fourteen different official and independent schools in the Northern Mohafazat (Governorate) for the
New Literature Contest, taking place for the first time in the said campus.
After the playing of the National Anthem, North Campus Director Father Samir Ghsoub welcomed the
participants, stressing the role of the University in encouraging young writers and developing their gifts,
for they were to make up the Lebanon of the future. He was followed by the Coordinator of the Faculty of
Humanities Michael el-Hajj, who explained that the contest involved telling short stories on a subject in either
Arabic, French or English, with a jury of known writers to announce the results on April 29th inst., in the
presence of the directors of the schools taking part and the families of the students.
The schools taking part were as follows:
Tripoli: The College of the Sisters of the Most Holy Hearts (Très Sts-Cœurs), The National Orthodox School of
Qabbeh, The National Orthodox School of El-Mina.
Koura: The Brothers’, Daoud Karam Centre, Lighthouse (House of Light???) of Bikfateen.
Zghorta: Zghorta Secondary, The Brothers’, the Carmelites’.
Akkar: Halba Secondary, Orthodox College, Abdallah Rassy Lycée.
Besharri: The Antonine Fathers’.
NLC’s first FAAD Exhibition, Grey
On the 12th April, 2011, the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design (FAAD), North Lebanon Campus (NLC),
Barsa, El Koura, held its first annual students’ exhibition entitled Grey. The exhibition displayed the promising
works of the architecture students (1st and 2nd year) and graphic design students (1st and 3rd year); it
included two-dimensional art and design work and three-dimensional design objects and architecture
projects. Introductory speeches were delivered by the representatives of FAAD students, Ms. Dina Baroud,
Coordinator of FAAD-NLC, and Father Samir Ghsoub, Director of NDU-NLC. The exhibition was attended by
the students’ parents, staff and faculty members from NDU and other universities.
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