The Role of Universities, Students, and Activism in Context of Campus Politics & the Ongoing Social Movements

Academic analysis by Layal Chalfoun, Maria Mouzannar, and Sarah El-Abd

As the country began witnessing monumentally changing behaviors, attitudes, and views, local university campus life followed. Coinciding with the very week of student election at the American University of Beirut, an already heavily politicized campus, the uprisings and student involvement soon became intertwined.