Letters
Letter from the Editor – Spring 2022
From the Editor Spring 2022Dear MainGate readers, This issue looks at how the American University of Beirut has been shaping our world—then and now—and delivering on the promise of abundance laid out in the university’s motto, which inspired the mural featured...
Views from Campus – Spring 2022
From the President - Spring 2022 At commencement this year, I addressed the first class since the summer of 2019 to have the privilege of being on the magnificent Green Field with their parents seated behind them. Most were about to leave AUB, but as I pointed...
From the Editors
From the Editors Fall 2021 Dear MainGate readers, We’re delighted to present this fall issue of The MainGate—a reflection on the many facets of the AUB community. As befits these straitened times, we are publishing in a smaller more economical format for this...
From the President – Fall 2021
From the President - Fall 2021 Dear readers, You can be assured that throughout the crises of the past three years, the board of trustees, university leadership, and I have listened, debated, and deliberated how to forge a path forward for this most precious of...
Inbox – Fall 2020/Winter 2021
From the Editor - Fall 2020/Winter 2021Dear MainGate readers, Campus looked surprisingly unruffled on my first return 10 days after August 4. Traces remained of a massive cleanup. Lower campus—OSB, Hostler, and the Irani Oxy Engineering Complex—had borne the...
From the President – Fall 2020/Winter 2021
From the President - Fall 2020/Winter 2021The year 2020 will certainly go down in history as one for the books. It may have ended, but it is hardly behind us. We will continue to ask if we are living through a major turning point or just a seismic aberration in...
From the President
From the President Spring/Summer 2020 July 2020 First and foremost, I would like to congratulate our remarkable students, faculty, and staff for their resourcefulness and resilience throughout the seismic events of the past academic year. During Lebanon’s...
From the Editor
From the Editor Spring/Summer 2020 July 2020 Dear MainGate readers, As I write this, I am sitting in front of the only window to the world most of us have in the summer of 2020. As potential hosts to a deadly virus, we are homebound, masked, and socially...
From the President (Views from Campus)
From the President (Views from Campus) - Fall 2019/Winter 2020On September 2, 2019, I made my opening day remarks in Assembly Hall, including the statement: “We are committed, as we have always been, to the education of our students, in good times and in bad....
From the Editor
From the Editor - Fall 2019/Winter 2020Dear MainGate readers, The dramatic events gripping Lebanon since October 17, 2019, have highlighted for me more sharply than ever how a university can be several different things at the same time. The word “university”...