Event – WLCU Sydney

2 March 2026

From Tyre to Tripoli – a Phoenician Boat Journey

By Paul Shalhoub – VP and Chief Editor Our new signature event “From Tyre to Tripoli – a Phoenician Boat Journey” debuted on 10th October 2025. Our sold-out event with 450 guests was universally lauded as our greatest event ever – superb food, Lebanese dancing, insights into our shared Phoenician history by an archaeologist, opera by sopranist Amelia Farrugia, attendance by the WLCU World President and World Secretary General (both visiting from France), the introduction of the Phoenician God: Adonis (courtesy of…

27 February 2026

Reflecting on Dr Charles Malik Literary Awards 2025

By Marcus Khoudair You would see that even when we go far, we speak to you. We write to you. We dream in your geography. We say “back home” and mean you. We say “the village” and mean you. We say “I miss the sea” and mean the very stretch of your coastline that knows our footsteps. We say “I want to be buried there” and mean your soil, specifically yours, not just any holy ground, yours. From ‘When the Cedars Wept’ by…

22 February 2026

A Shepherd Among the Cedars: Pope Leo’s Visit and the Soul of Lebanon

By Malek Chalhoub “Lebanon is the place that keeps burying its dead and still refuses to bury its future.” When Pope Leo stepped onto Lebanese soil, something shifted that no headline could fully capture. It was not about protocol, nor spectacle, nor the formal language of state visits. It was about a nation that has grown used to carrying its pain quietly suddenly feeling seen again. Lebanon did not greet him with perfection. It greeted him with truth. With crowded streets,…

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…

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.

28 June 2021

Hi! Keefna? Ça Va? 2021

On the balmy Thursday evening of 16 June, the WLCU hosted its first-ever expatriate event. Hi! Keefna? Ça Va? The name of the soiree is the traditional Lebanese greeting, that we as part of the Lebanese diaspora are tickled with whenever we visit the golden shores of the motherland.

24 April 2021

HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards Night – Class of 2020

The 2020 graduating class were celebrated with an exceptional first HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards event. Each of the recipients should feel enormously proud and be hopefully driven to continue this excellence in coming years, their careers and in life. We look forward to continuing this annual recognition of the great accomplishments of the young Lebanese Australians for many years to come.

6 September 2020

Food Hampers Reaches Recipients in Beirut

The New President of the Cultural Union of New South Wales, Shane Geha, is aiming and preparing and enjoys great vocational experience and ambition to put the Union on a track to success. Geha visited El Telegraph’s offices with treasurer Richard Melki and Board Members George Bousamra and Hassan Sakr. They are members of a new Organisational Board, with Secretary Petronella Fakhry and Vice President Pierre Chami and Member Laudy Farah Ayoub.

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