Debate Club
(Founded 2001)

Definition: The Club organizes open discussions about controversial issues. Two opposing teams of students embark on a debate about a hot, current, socio/political topic.

Objectives: To encourage students to hold open dialogues where they share and discuss their world perceptions freely; to improve the students' debating abilities while showing respect toward opposing views; to give students the opportunity to experience the intricacies of deliberation, and to train them to listen and analyze opposing views, then to counter-argue and undermine them with solid rationality.

Past Achievements: Lately the Club held debates on civil marriage, abortion, premarital sex, capital punishment, euthanasia, reality TV, Lebanese Society, identity, plastic surgery, religious verdicts of wars, the Mehlis Report, the defense strategy of Lebanon, the electoral law, etc...

Upcoming Events: The Club will come up with a number of current hot and exciting topics and work hard to broaden the scope of participating students. Debates will be public and/or exclusive.