Alternative Solutions for Jbeil

The article discusses the tension surrounding the practice of religious rituals at the American University of Lebanon in Jbeil. It highlights concerns that the Muslim students’ demands to pray on campus could turn educational institutions into arenas for sectarian power struggles. The author affirms that Jbeil is a city rich in diversity and a long history of coexistence and mutual understanding. Turning the university into a platform for sectarian division risks undermining its careful model of unity. The piece emphasizes that freedom of worship is a right, but that the political or media exploitation of students’ demands can lead to sectarian escalation. The solution, according to the article, lies in respecting everyone’s rights and providing shared spaces for worship that do not become battlegrounds for identity disputes. It also stresses that the real challenge is to build a unified state with one law—free from sectarian conflicts and external guardianship. True peace, it concludes, requires respecting differences and strengthening institutions that bring Lebanese people together through knowledge and human achievement, beyond sectarian or denominational divisions.

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