hahaha... good one raneem!
Speaking of american universities - there's only one american university
here in Dublin. It's so tiny, you can't even find the building without directions.
You only end up studying there because the Irish universities, notably UCD,
DCU, and NUI (don't worry about the acronyms.. lol) rejected you. The
american university needs a huge sign to tell people that this is the building.
In lebanon, you study in the lebanese university if you're poor and unwanted
in other universities.
The americans, LAU and AUB, are your dream destination for education and
unsurprisingly, ridiculously expensive: if costs you more to study at them,
then it does here and I'm a bloody foreigner. Your country rips you off royally
when it comes to education when you can actually get a better education for
cheaper in a country that you don't even belong to.
We have no pride in our national faculties and rather stick to the
prestigious american ones because you become an ''AUB graduate'' afterwards.
(and that opens the pearling gates?) For God's sake, we even have no respect
to our national currency, dollar is more acceptable (at least it was when I
left...)
There was this ad shortly before I left Leb on telly. A guy in the restaurant
wants to pay his bill at the end of his date. The waiter gets him the bill on a
wee plate and the chap pulls lebanese money out of his wallet and lays it down
on the plate. Awkwardly, the whole restaurant pauses and looks at him
because he paid with lira. Then the waiter starts applauding, then his date does
so, and eventually the whole restaurant goes on feeling proud of him...
A simple yet powerful ad, that sadly reflected a true national problem we had.