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…
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…
The WLCU Sydney is delighted to be able to share with you highlights from the recent Rome Comes To Lebanon Gala Event 2022. We trust you will enjoy looking through the selected photographs taken from the Event.
The evening of 25 June 2022 saw guests at Doltone House Sydney transported to another era at WLCU Sydney’s Inaugural Rome Comes to Lebanon Event. The Night commemorated over 700 years of Roman rule in Lebanon, a period which saw six Emperors come from our great Lebanon. In doing so, we celebrated the Roman and Lebanese cultures and the way they have evolved together.
