The Arab Heritage Club
  In 1994 an article about clubs in AUB stated, "The Arab Heritage Club supports revival of traditional norms, and cultural trends in the Arab world." What does the Arab Heritage Club represent today? According to current members they are a club that deals with Arab cultural issues.
The club activities range from book exhibitions of Arab books on politics, poetry and Arab writers, to concerts and cinema festivals for Arab music composers and movie directors.
The Arab Heritage Club first appears in the University archives in 1988. But during the war many clubs existed on paper, but not all were publicized or active. What the case with the Arab Heritage Club was, Outlook was not able to find out.
"The Arab Heritage Club has been through several phases," said Naji Issa a member of the club who was vice president in 1998. "One of those phases is when a large majority of the members of the club joined the No Frontiers group in AUB."
A large proportion of the Arab Heritage Club joined the No Frontiers in AUB because they share common ideas and ways of achieving these goals. But, this does not mean that the club is restricted to No Frontiers only, as many people believe. "If someone does not agree with what we do, then they won't join us. We don't have restrictions," said Issa. The Arab Heritage Club does not restrict their membership to anyone. The University lays down the regulations concerning who can join which club and what the requirements should be. Basically anyone who pays the LL5000 membership fee will become a member of the club. From the day they pay they start receiving information about club meetings and activities.
The club works with many other clubs on campus and also with some individuals on campus. Some of their exhibitions were held in conjunction with the Palestinian Cultural Club, especially when the activity dealt with Palestinian issues they support. Movies were presented with the Cine Club. The Arab Heritage Club sponsored a Women's Week and they did this with the Women's Rights Club.
One of their famous activities that has become popular with the students at the beginning of every semester is the Book Fair for used text books sold at half the price of the AUB Bookstore. This year's fair was a great success considering how high the prices in the Bookstore were.
The Club tries to keep the Arab Heritage alive by focusing on Arab productions such as films, books and performers. "The title holds many meanings," said Naji Issa.