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From Tyre to Tripoli – a Phoenician Boat Journey
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…

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

WLCU Sydney – HSC Distinguished Achievers Awards Class of 2024
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…

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…

Lamenting the Decline of Ras Beirut
4 January 2023

Lamenting the Decline of Ras Beirut

On 18 and 19 August 2022, the World Lebanese Cultural Union held its first World Economic Congress for Lebanon, a forum attended by various Lebanese representatives and dignitaries from across the world with the aim of discussing possible solutions to aid our beloved Lebanon. The Youth Council Report has been prepared by WLCU World Youth President, Christina Salamy, as a participant of this forum, on the status of Lebanon, and as well, any advancements that might have come about pertaining to the WLCU Youth.

4 January 2023

The Inaugural Dr Charles Malik Award

The Museum of Beirut is a must see for anyone going to Lebanon.  It contains over one thousand objects, all of which have been found only in Lebanon. In this article, WLCU President Dr Shane Geha explores one very amazing object in the Museum, which is an elaborate mosaic dating back to the 2nd Century AD: The Mosaic of the Seven Wise Men (Asshaa Al Hukamaa).

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