Launching UNESCO, SAWA Project

Under the supervision of the Lebanese National Committee for UNESCO, the UNESCO Club was launched through its first project at the Islamic University of Lebanon – Tire Branch, under the title “Sawa” which corresponds to the first goal of the Sustainable Development Goals “Eradication of Poverty”.

The campaign was launched by the students of the club members, and the students of the university and the administrative and educational bodies were invited to participate in this voluntary work in order to secure these needs.

Each volunteer will secure items, books, food and clothing that he does not want to be sorted and distributed to poor families, as their work will depend on collecting information about these families from the municipalities and the activities of the region. Then donation boxes were placed at the university in order to buy food and distribute it to the needy before the holy month of Ramadan. The club will also hold a free summer course for low-income children during the month of July, which we will announce later…

For anyone who wants to support this project or for anyone with limited income who needs help, please contact the number 76/808150

 

Environment and Sustainable Development Conference

The Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, Challenges and Solutions, concluded its two-day event, which was attended by scientific sessions and various workshops on renewable energies, geographic information systems and data on the natural and human environment, hosted by the Islamic University of Lebanon under the auspices of its President A.D. Dina Al Mawla, represented by The Secretary General of the University, Dr. Hussein Badran, and at the invitation of the President of the International Peace Forum for Culture and Science A.D. Saad Ajil Mubarak.

The President of the Forum in Lebanon, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Diplomatic Sciences at the Islamic University, A.D. Ramez Ammar, read out the following recommendations:

1. Legislation to invest in renewable energies to increase their contribution to total total energy and achieve safe supply, as well as to contribute to environmental protection and sustainable development.
2. Activating the work of government actions that contribute to the distribution of industries, thereby enhancing environmental protection and not draining their resources.
3. Raising environmental awareness among members of the community to preserve the environment and instill it in the love of nature and agriculture to ensure the requirements of food security as an important goal of sustainable development.
4. There is a national will capable of carrying out integrated economic reforms and eliminating corruption of all kinds as a step towards financial sustainability.
5. Activating economic policies that promote ecotourism in the marshes with the aim of diversifying iraq’s sources of income
6. The need to exploit the possibilities available in the production of renewable energy by encouraging scientific research and studies interested in this field.
7. Adopt a comprehensive strategy to reduce environmental pollution in the long run and take advantage of successful experiences of countries in this area to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
8. Adopting remote sensing and all information systems in building integrated databases through twinning between universities starting with researchers in Iraq and the Islamic University of Lebanon.
9. Anti-terrorism laws should include penal provisions to address terrorism against the environment that indirectly targets citizens.

At the end of the conference, Dr. Mubarak and Dr. Ammar, Secretary General of the Islamic University, Dr. Badran, delivered a certificate of participation in the conference, and Dr. Mubarak, President of the International Peace Forum for Culture and Science, presented honoring shields and creative necklaces on behalf of the Forum to each of the gentlemen:

The conference was sponsored by The President of the University, Dr. Al-Mawla, representative of the President of the Supreme Shiite Islamic Council, Imam Sheikh Abdul Amir Kaplan, Secretary General of the Council, Professor Nazih Jamoul, Secretary General of the University. Dr. Hussein Badran, representative of Iraqi Ambassador Ali al-Ameri Amjad Mohammed, Iraqi Cultural Attaché Suhail Najm Abdullah, representative of The Director General of Public Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim Brigadier General Salah Halawi, and representative of army commander General Joseph Aoun Brigadier General Marwan Al-Khatib, representative of the Director General of State Security Major General Tony Saliba Colonel Arij Karzab.

Next year, the Forum decided to hold its conference entitled “Sustainable Development Policies and Modern Trends in the Midst of Contemporary Challenges.

 

Wrontzka toured the Wardaniyah University Complex and presented with God ways to strengthen relations

NNA – The President of the Islamic University in Lebanon, Dr. Dina Al-Mawla, received the Special Coordinator of the United Nations in Lebanon, Dr. Ioanna Wronczka, in her office at the University Complex – Wardaniyeh, in an introductory visit during which ways of joint cooperation and higher education affairs in Lebanon were discussed.

Al-Mawla welcomed Vronetska, wishing her success in her duties and strengthening cooperation relations between Lebanon and United Nations institutions at various levels and fields, especially cultural and academic ones.

Al-Mawla reviewed the history of the university and the purpose of its establishment, as well as the achievements it has achieved, its mission and the vision it carries, noting that “it embraces students from various Lebanese regions and abroad in its four edifices, which include colleges of various specializations and centers for training and scientific research.”

Academic and cultural affairs, scientific research and the development achieved by the university were discussed through international classifications, the QS international classification and the TIMES Foundation, and the positions it occupied in Lebanon, the Arab world and in the world according to the advanced academic level and approved international standards, pointing to the university’s opening of the Center for Human Rights, and she was briefed on the His activities.

Al-Mawla stressed, “The university is keen to keep pace with everything new in science and knowledge to raise quality standards in higher education and provide them to its students. It is open to cooperating with scientific, academic, and cultural energies and activities to achieve its cognitive and humanitarian mission.”

An extensive discussion session was held in the hall of the university’s Board of Trustees, attended by Al-Mawla, Wronetska, Secretary General of the Supreme Shiite Islamic Council, Nazih Jammoul, deans of colleges, and heads of training and scientific research centers. Academic and cultural affairs, scientific research, scientific activities, and future university projects were discussed.

Wronczka spoke about her scientific and practical career in terms of her study of the history of Arab civilization and her work as an ambassador for her country, Poland, and in several Arab countries, such as Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, and Mauritania, and then in the corps of envoys of the United Nations, pointing out that “the international community wishes lasting goodness for Lebanon and prosperity.”

She explained the role of the organization’s agencies and offices (they number 26) in terms of sustainable development and providing humanitarian aid to the Lebanese community “and what they are suffering in these critical circumstances.”

She pointed out that what she observed “in terms of organization and arrangement during her visit to the headquarters of the United Nations Forces in the Lebanese town of Naqoura is distinctive and completely different from the reality of many military units spread around the world, and that they provide services to the people of the region at all educational, health and social levels.”

Then, Al-Mawla presented the reality of “constructive cooperation” with the organization in the field of human rights and sustainable development, as a few weeks ago a center was established in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa “that is concerned with human rights and reflects the developmental vision adopted in the university’s administration and its international openness.”

She touched on the international rankings the university has obtained in the files of quality of education, addressing poverty and gender equality. The attendees presented ways of academic cooperation and its activation, especially research papers and executive projects, specifically community and environmental health, and allowing them to benefit from the organization’s various agencies, opening the way for university students to train according to their specializations within the 2030 plan and vision.

Vroniska expressed “full readiness to interact, especially in the field of urbanization, urban planning, and environmental preservation, and to hold specialized and purposeful seminars and workshops with university elites on the level of community culture topics.”

She concluded her visit with a field tour accompanied by the Lord and those present in the complex, and was briefed on the buildings, facilities and equipment that were installed according to international standards.

 

Times classification: A white achievement in a black time for the Islamic University in Lebanon

The Islamic University ranked third among Lebanese universities and advanced ahead of big names in the higher education industry in Lebanon as well as in the Arab world, where it ranked 22nd, also ahead of universities that have produced, over many decades, the elite of Arab leaders and entrepreneurs.

It is not “ordinary” news that the National News Agency published late last month about the classification of the Islamic University in Lebanon on the Times Higher Education list, which specializes in the extent of progress of university institutions around the world in achieving the sustainable development goals of the United Nations, known as the 2030 goals. It is not “ordinary” because it is good news that comes.

From a country where we are in the black to take advantage of the darkness, especially since the aforementioned university is one of the relatively new universities known as the universities of the 2000 decree. Or the universities of the third category, which until further notice remain under suspicion due to the large number of behaviors that some of those in this category have produced that lack rational educational management and are not Based on the lofty message of education.

The Islamic University has ranked third among Lebanese universities and has advanced ahead of big names in the higher education industry in Lebanon as well as in the Arab world, where it has ranked 22nd also ahead of universities that have produced, over many decades, the elite of Arab leaders and entrepreneurs.

It also caught my attention that the university ranked first in the quality of education (the quality of education that aims to ensure the quality of equitable and comprehensive education for all, which leads to enhancing lifelong education opportunities, according to the 2030 goals) among Lebanese universities, and this is a given that must be considered, because when we talk Regarding the quality of education, there is a complex network of investment inputs that begin with the quality of programs, passing through laboratory technology, and ending with the quality of educational staff and curricular and extracurricular approaches, the most important of which are self-development programs for students.

 

Who can continue?

We stop at this point because the entire educational system has come under question in Lebanon with the weak investment in university inputs, especially after the widespread economic collapse starting in 2019, and with the increasing migration of the best university professors and researchers from Lebanon. The classification mentioned in these particular circumstances is evidence that the new universities are not bad in general, and they are a new whole that contains the monsters and the elements of life and development.

A few universities are able to continue, especially the new category, but this classification will help in the natural path based on selecting the best and the death of those least capable of life and sustainability.

The law of survival of the fittest has never paid attention to the abundance of money or the noise of propaganda, but rather to achievements in times when achievement is difficult. This is what attracted me so much” in the Times classification.

Congratulations to the University President, A. Dr.. Dina Al-Mawla and the professors, staff and students of the Islamic University in Lebanon.

 

National News Agency publication

The Islamic University of Lebanon announced in a statement that it “confidently submitted for the first time to The Times Higher Education classification, under the supervision of its president, Dr. Dina Al-Mawla, and the participation of a large group of experts in the specializations to which the university is concerned.”

She pointed out that “the classification is based on performance measures based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which cover the areas of quality education, scientific research and wise leadership, as universities submit detailed files on their work within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are embodied in a set of goals numbering 17 goals and 169 targets.” Long-term, set by the United Nations within the 2030 Sustainable Development

Plan to achieve a sustainable future for all, and all member states have adopted the goals since 2015, which are known as the Global Goals, as a global call to action to end poverty and protect the world to achieve the sustainable development goals, and this requires a partnership between governments and the sector. Private society, civil society and citizens alike.”

She pointed out that “the United Nations Development Program helps countries in the Arab States region to address challenges related to poverty, vulnerability, inequality and exclusion, in economically, socially and environmentally sustainable ways, and aims to enhance the prospects for comprehensive growth, job opportunities and livelihoods at the national and local levels.”

She said: “After a comprehensive study of thousands of files from higher education institutions in the world, they were classified:

Firstly – ranked first among Lebanese universities with regard to the fourth goal file related to the quality of education, which aims to ensure the quality of equitable and comprehensive education for all, which leads to enhancing lifelong education opportunities.

Secondly – it ranked third among Lebanese universities to evaluate four of the goals in which it participated, which are:

The first goal (No. 1): related to eliminating poverty in all its forms and ensuring that everyone, especially the poorest groups, has access to all resources, especially equitable and quality higher education for the most vulnerable population groups that are economically, socially and environmentally marginalized.

Second goal (No. 4): Ensure equal opportunities for everyone to obtain quality, affordable higher education and in order to eliminate gender disparity, including those with special needs to obtain the necessary skills to support sustainable development through a focus on increasing the number of school scholarships for all segments of society. Without discrimination.

The third goal (No. 16): which distinguishes the Islamic University in Lebanon, as it guarantees the development of peace and justice in strong institutions and is based on encouraging the existence of peaceful, inclusive societies for all in order to achieve sustainable development. It also provides recourse to the judiciary in accordance with the principle of fairness and justice and encourages the building of effective institutions at all levels that are subject to accountability.

The fourth goal (No. 17): It is the goal without which none of the other goals can be achieved. It is concerned with reviving the global partnership for sustainable development through the existence of a common vision between countries and societies and the extent to which the means are provided to achieve it. It provides an explanation of the means of implementation, including finance and technology. And build capacity and knowledge to exchange ideas and promote innovation.

Thirdly – in the Arab world, the university ranked 22nd at the level of Arab universities, as 128 universities from the Arab world participated in the classification of the international institution THE – Education Higher Times.

Fourth – Globally, within the category (301 – 400) of the 1,100 universities classified from 93 countries according to the general average of the goals that received the highest rating among the 17 goals set by the United Nations and in which the universities participated according to their excellence.

She concluded: “The Islamic University of Lebanon was able to achieve this achievement from the first participation in the classifications and chose 11 goals, and the experts and specialists worked to prepare their files, and Dr. Al-Mawla promised that the university would participate next year in the 17 goals set by the United Nations and to obtain classifications.” higher”.

 

Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Qassem Dench won the Best Scientific Research Award in Artificial Intelligence 2019, within the ninth conference entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Security and Defense 2019 (AISD)”, which was held by the Army’s Center for Strategic Research and Studies under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, at Le Royal Hotel – Dbayeh .

The ceremony was attended by a number of ministers and parliamentarians, as well as political, diplomatic, military and social activities, as well as researchers and academics from Lebanon, Arab and international countries.

The Chairman of the General Committee of the Conference, Brigadier General Saeed Al-Qazh, gave the opening speech, in which he presented the conference program, its activities and its importance at the level of the Middle East region.

Then Minister Bou Saab delivered a speech that pointed out the importance of raising the name of the Lebanese army in Lebanon and the world, and the need to work on restructuring it and seeking to develop and modernize it with all energies and capabilities by making the best use of technological development.

For his part, the Army Commander delivered a speech in which he stressed the need for the Lebanese Army and the rest of the security institutions to use modern technology, specifically the concept of artificial intelligence in their field of competence, which contributes to facing challenges, both external and internal, noting that this matter leads to improving their military performance and strengthening their logistical management. leadership and, consequently, good decision-making in various circumstances.

It is worth noting that Dr. Dench is the head of the Department of Management Informatics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and he is the only Lebanese researcher to win an award in the conference, in which researchers from more than 40 foreign and Arab countries are participating, in addition to researchers from many Lebanese universities.