Local News – WLCU Sydney

21 August 2025

WLCU Sydney – HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards Class of 2024

On 8 May 2025 the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU) of Sydney in conjunction with the WLCU Sydney Foundation Ltd, presented its Annual HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards to our Australian Lebanese youth who have achieved outstanding results in the 2024 Higher School Certificate (HSC) and International Baccalaureate as well as in their extracurricular activities, including in community service, leadership, sports and the arts. The awards event was held in the spectacular function room at the offices of EG in Governor Phillip Tower in…

21 August 2025

Triumvirate of Song

By Anthony Sommer On Saturday night 22 March 2025, the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU) of Sydney held its Triumvirate of Song distinguished event at The Lemnos by Clarence House to celebrate Lebanon’s greatest female artists of the 1970s and 1980s: Sabah, Fairuz and Majida El Roumi. The magical evening was an unforgettable cultural experience of song, filled with authentic Lebanese cuisine, fine wine and spirits, soft drinks and Lebanese non-alcoholic specialties. Guests were treated to superb live music by singers and stunning…

28 January 2024

Celebrating Lebanese Culture and Literary Excellence and supporting a book on Dr Charles Malik

December 2023 witnessed two remarkable events hosted by the World Lebanese Cultural Union Sydney Inc., bringing together the community to celebrate Lebanese culture and honor literary excellence. One event, “An Evening with Gibran,” paid tribute to the iconic Lebanese American author Kahlil Gibran on the 100th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, “The Prophet.” The other event, the Dr Charles Malik Literary Award Competition, recognised outstanding writers who penned essays with a Lebanese theme. An Evening with Gibran: A Centennial Celebration On…

30 October 2023

The Bsharri Association of NSW celebrates 100 years of Gibran’s The Prophet in Sydney

By Paul Shalhoub It was only fitting that the Bsharri Association of New South Wales honoured their world famous son by a wonderful evening on Friday 20 th October, followed by a weekend of activities. Kahlil Gibran was born in the stunning village of Bsharri, high in the mountains of North Lebanon at the site of the only remaining “Cedars of God”. Gibran lived the first 12 years of his life there, before emigrating to the United States with his mother and siblings…

3 July 2023

Lebanon Economic Monitor – the country is descending further into crisis and the outlook remains dire

Since October 2019, Lebanon has been beset by the most crippling, multi-pronged crisis in its modern history as a result of both an economic and political collapse. The deteriorating economic and financial crisis that started in 2019 was further inflamed by the adverse economic impacts of COVID-19, the Port of Beirut explosion in August 2020 as well as the inundation of Syrian refugees that started in 2013 who now make up over a third of the country’s population. The humanitarian consequences were…

1 July 2023

En Route to Beirut March 2023 Gala

By Paul Shalhoub Our now infamous WLCU Sydney En Route to Beirut was held on Saturday 18 March 2023 at Doltone House, Sydney. This was the third in our series, where guests board an imaginary taxi and travel to different destinations in Lebanon on way to the final stop in Beirut. Many acclaimed this as the best to date and it was truly a memorable evening with great food, company, interviews, specialty cocktails, speeches and live entertainment. It was a sold-out event with…

1 July 2023

HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards Night 2023 – Class of 2022

By Alexander Ishac On the 25th of May the World Lebanese Cultural Union of Sydney hosted its annual HSC Distinguished Achievers Night at NSW Parliament House. The event is a celebration of the outstanding accolades that our Lebanese youth have achieved in their final year of high school in the form of both their HSC/IB results as well as their extracurricular undertakings. The night was a great success, opening in the Strangers Function Room at NSW Parliament House, overlooking the beautiful Domain with…

4 January 2023

Sincerest Thanks To Our 2022 Sponsors

Events like our recent Rome Comes To Lebanon Gala Event require a multitude of support. It would not be possible to host such a function without the generous donations of our corporate sponsors, raffle prize donations, and flower sponsors.
The WLCU Sydney is extremely grateful for the generosity and support of our fantastic Sponsors, and we ask that you utilise their wonderful services when possible

4 January 2023

An Evening with Dr Charles Malik

The WLCU Sydney was one of many financial sponsors of “An Evening with Dr Charles Malik” on 12 December 2022, held at Australian Catholic University, Sydney. The event was organised by The Friends of Dr Charles Malik Committee Australia & Notre Dame University, Lebanon. The evening saw close to 200 people, including many dignitaries, gathering for the Australian screening of the film Charles Malik: A Universal Person. WLCU Sydney President, Dr Shane Geha, was the MC for the evening.

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