Founded in 1866, the American University of Beirut is a teaching-centered research university based on the American liberal arts model of higher education. AUB has over 8,000 students and 800 faculty members. The University encourages freedom of thought and expression and seeks to graduate men and women committed to creative and critical thinking, lifelong learning, personal integrity, civic responsibility, and leadership.
AUB is accredited in the US by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and includes six faculties: Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and Architecture, Agricultural and Food Sciences, Health Sciences, and Business. AUB offers more than 130 programs leading to bachelor's, master's, MD, and PhD degrees. The main language of instruction is English.
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The vibrant and dynamic research environment at AUB enhances the educational experience for all and serves the wider communities—local and global—by advancing knowledge in a wide range of disciplines.
Recognizing and honoring our responsibility for others has been an integral part of AUB’s mission since the earliest days. Today, AUB is at the forefront of addressing the most pressing concerns of this country, this region, and its people.
To ensure the University can continue to inspire current and future generations of smart and able students who can rise to this challenge, we are embarking on a transformative capital campaign, BOLDLY AUB: The Campaign to Lead, Innovate, and Serve.
Cluster 1 — Economies/Ecologies of War, Ecocide, Pacification & Liberation
The Price of Salt: How Economic Greed and Corruption Swallowed the Dead Sea
Authors: Mazen Al-Ghoul
Type: Essay / Publication
The article exposes how a century of privatized mineral extraction — potash, bromine, and magnesium — has driven the Dead Sea’s environmental collapse, enabled by corruption, regulatory neglect, and unlicensed water pumping on both the Jordanian and Israeli sides. It argues that this industrial plunder, not just regional water diversion, is the central force pushing a shared natural commons toward ecological death.
Cluster 2 — Communal and Regional Sovereignties
Stand out of our Light: Loss of Photovoltaic Infrastructure from Israel’s War on Lebanon
Authors: Eric Tohme (Sevenoaks School) and Nisreen Salti (American University of Beirut)
Type: Research paper
Examines how the destruction of photovoltaic infrastructure during Israel’s war on Lebanon reversed the country’s solar-energy transition and increased reliance on diesel generators and fossil fuels.
Cluster 3 — One Region: Decolonial Pasts and Futures
Hellenism as Anti-Romiosini
Author: Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
Type: Essay
Examines Hellenism and Romiosini through a decolonial lens, questioning dominant narratives of identity, history, and belonging.
PPIA Methods Course Papers
Authors: CELME
Type: Course papers / working documents
A collection of course papers and working documents presenting developing research, reflections, and methodological approaches.
Cluster 4 — Med East in the Global South: Ecologies, Equalities, Emancipations
Ravenous Cloud
Author: Mazen Al-Ghoul
Type: Essay / publication
The article exposes artificial intelligence as a materially extractive system built on mining, energy- and water-intensive infrastructure, precarious labour, and toxic waste, arguing that its ecological and social costs are displaced onto marginalized communities in the Global South and can only be addressed through transparent, democratic, and environmentally accountable governance.
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