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Noam
Chomsky at AUB
* Tuesday 9, 5:00 pm ˆ Assembly Hall
* Wednesday 10, 5:00 pm - West Hall
(details below)
Dated Events
Monday May 1
* Labor Day (holiday).
Monday May 1, 8:30 pm - Pavillion Royal BIEL
* Annual Gala Dinner: International Star Elissa and Violinist Jihad
Aakel and a spectacular show. Prices: Regular seats $100, VIP seats:
$250.
For tickets and information contact the AUB Office of Development.
College Hall 3rd floor. Ext 2530 and 2531. Tel: 01-340176.
Your support will benefit needy and qualified students at AUB. Organized
by AUB Scholarship Fundraising Committee.
Tuesday 2, 3:30 pm - Van Dyck room 307
* Seminar: "Situating Health and Healing in the Social Context,"
presented by Dr. Belgin Tekce Professor of Sociology, and Vice-Dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bogazici University, Turkey. Organized
by Center for Research on Population and Health Seminar at the Faculty
of Health Sciences.
Tuesday 2, 8:00 pm – Assembly Hall
* Brazilian Popular Music Guitar Concert by Trio Baru. Organized in
cooperation between AUB and the Brazilian Embassy. All are welcome.
Wednesday 3, 5:00 pm – West Hall, Bathish
* Lecture by Usama Makdisi: “America before Anti-Americanism”. Organized
by CASAR.
Wednesday 3, 8:00 pm – Assembly Hall
* Musical workshop: "The Paths of Brazilian Music". Organized in
cooperation between AUB and the Brazilian Embassy. All are welcome.
Thursday 4 and Friday 5, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - West Hall, Green Oval
and Student Cafeteria
* Annual Job Fair – Exhibition 2006.
For further information on how to prepare a professional resume along
with a cover letter please visit the link below: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/cps/skill/resume.html
For further information on how to prepare you for the job fair event
visit:
http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/cps/place/prep_fair.html
Or call Dr. Maryam Ghandour, Career and Placement Services Ext: 3172.
Thursday 4, 6:00 pm – AUB Alumni Club
* Arabic lecture by HE Anwar Al-Khalil: “The Lebanese Diaspora”.
Presented by the AUB Alumni Association.
Saturday 6, 10:00 am, AREC (Beqaa)
* FAFS and AREC (AUB farm) students cordially invite you to participate
in this year’s AGGIE OLYMPICS. Come and enjoy the glory of nature and
animal life. Transportation will be available from the sea gate at 8:30
am.
Saturday 6
* Martyrs and Press Day.
Sunday 7, 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.
* “Birôth - Berytus – Beirut A Stroll through the Ages in Downtown
Beirut”: program for children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, on the
occasion of the International Museum Day. The theme for this year is
“Museums and Young People”.
Registration before May 4. Tickets: 10,000 LL. Meeting: Facing Beirut
Municipality, Weygand Street. Parents will pick up their children from
the same spot. For more information call: 01-340549. Places are limited.
Organized by Society of the Friends of the Museum.
Monday 8, 1:00 pm - Biol. 004
* Seminar: “Alien species in Lebanese waters” by Dr. Michel Bariche,
marine biologist, AUB. Presented by the Natural History Museum Committee
(Department of Biology, FAS)
Monday 8, 3:30 pm - West Hall, Bathish
* Lecture: “Folk Dancing Tradition at AUB” by Mr. Najib Hubaika and Ms.
Wadad Husseini. Doors open at 3:30, meeting starts at 4:00. Coffee, tea
and delicacies are served after the meeting. Organized by Women’s
League. Come with your friends.
Monday 8, 8:00 pm precisely - Assembly Hall
* Celebrating the anniversaries of W. A. Mozart (1956-1791) and Robert
Schumann (1810 - 1856) with part songs, and Mozart's Vesperae solennes
de confessore, K. 339. Paul Meers, Conductor; Gertraud Steinkogler
Wurzinger, soprano; Sonja Maria Napetschnig, contralto; Ziad Nehme,
tenor; Samer Badr, baritone. Organized by the Zaki Nassif Music Program
and Fine Arts and Art History Department at AUB, the AUB Choir and
Choral Society with the Lebanese National Chamber Orchestra. All Are
Welcome. Supported in part by the Embassy of Austria in Lebanon.
Tuesday 9, 5:00 pm – Assembly Hall
* The 1st Edward Said Lecture "The Great Soul of Power" by professor
Noam Chomsky. Organized by CASAR and CBR. Noam Chomsky is a professor of
Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wednesday 10, 5:00 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium
* Specialized lecture on linguistics by Dr. Noam Chomsky.
Organized by The Center for Behavioral Studies (CBR) and CASAR.
Wednesday, May 10, 5:30 p.m. - AUB Museum
* Illustrated Lecture in French by Mrs. Maryse Maïla de Pico,
Historienne: “La femme dans l’Orient Ancien, du IIIe millénaire au IIIe
siècle av. J.C. Organized by Society of the friends of the AUB Museum.
Parking available (Old Alumni Tennis Court)
Wednesday 10, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
* Ein Liederabend, an Evening of Song. Celebrating the anniversaries of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Robert Schumann. Gertraud Steinkogler
Wurzinger, soprano, Sonja Maria Napetschnig, contralto, Ziad Nehme,
tenor, Samer Badr, baritone. Organized by the Zaki Nassif Music Program
and Fine Arts and Art History Department at AUB. All Are Welcome.
Thursday 11, 4:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B
* Seminar: “Future Leaders of the Middle East”. Keynote Speaker: Mr.
Ibrahim Dabdoub, CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait, member of the AUB
Board of Trustees. Moderator Dr. George Najjar, Dean of Suliman S.
Olayan School of Business. Round Table: Dr. Imad Zbib, Convenor,
Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Track; Dr. Robert Mc. Gregor,
Executive in Residence, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business. Organized
by Career and Placement Services and Student Affairs.
Thursday 11 6:00 pm - AUB Alumni Association
* Arabic lecture by HE Halim Fayyad: “Public Administration and the
Difficulty of its Reform”. Presented by the AUB Alumni Association.
Thursday 11 to Sunday 14
* 40th Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA). See program on page 1.
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 – AUB Campus
* Outdoors 2006 (all are welcome).
Tuesday 16, West Hall, Auditorium B
* Panel Discussion on Feminist Language and Discourse: “Bahithat”
(women-researchers), by Mrs. Jean Said Makdisi. Organized by Anis
Makdisi program in Literature.
40th Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA).
Thursday 11 to Sunday 14, 2006 – Beirut, Lebanon
The American University of Beirut and the
Medical Chapter of the AUB Alumni Association
In joint sponsorship with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Highlights of the Program:
- Cardiology
- Emergency Medicine
- Intensive Care
- Oncology
- Primary Care
- Workshops
Thursday 11, 5:00 pm – Assembly Hall
- Opening Ceremony of 40th Middle East Medical Assembly.
Thursday 11, 6:00 pm – Issam Fares Hall
- Opening of 40th Middle East Medical exhibition.
Saturday 13, 8:30 pm – International Phoenicia Hotel
- Gala Dinner (by tickets).
For information:
Dr. Ghassan Hamadeh, Chairperson
E-mail: mema@aub.edu.lb
http://mema.aub.edu.lb
PO Box: 11-0236, Riad El Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Tel: +961-1-350000, Fax: +961-1-744467
Fulbright Student Scholarships Offered by the American Embassy
Lebanese professionals and students wishing to pursue a
Master’s degree at a university in the USA are eligible
Application deadline: Friday, June 2, 2006
For further information and full details about the scholarship, contact
: AMIDEAST–Lebanon
Phone: 01-989901 ext 162
Visit: Bazerkan Building, Nijmeh Square
Web: www.amideast.org/lebanon
AREC surplus products
This is to inform you that AREC surplus products are being sold at the
Pilot Plant every Tuesday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. These consist of
frozen chicken, eggs, milk products such as Laban, Labneh and 5 kinds of
cheese. From time to time, red meat (American cuts) may be available.
Later on in the season, there will be a variety of vegetables and fruits
and of course sweet corn.
In order to better meet your needs, please place your order a week
before, by calling either Mr. Ghassan Kadi ext. 4591 or e-mailing Mr.
Ziad Jaber: zj06@aub.edu.lb
Thank you.
Nuhad J. Daghir, Ph.D.
Dean
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Class Reunion 2006
June 30 – July 1, 2006
If you graduated from AUB in:
1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976
1991, 1996, or 2001. Contact: Tel/fax: 961-1-366445, e-mail:
skadi@aub.edu.lb
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