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C’est au cours du séminaire des chefs des établisse-
ments conventionnés et homologués du Liban, de
la Syrie et de la Jordanie qui a eu lieu à Amman
le 27 et 28 mars 2008 que M. Marion, Conseiller
adjoint de l’Ambassade de France au Liban, a remis
à Antoine Boulad, représentant l’IC, une lettre du
ministère des affaires étrangères signifiant que tous
les cycles d’enseignement de l’IC, de la maternelle
au lycée, sont désormais homologués.
Mentionné dans la lettre, cette homologation est
l’aboutissement des efforts du comité de pilot-
age - formé de Mesdames Hana Bekdach, Amal
Charara, Gladys Haddad, Ghada Maalouf et M.
Antoine Boulad – qui a conduit l’ensemble des
collègues du programme français à élaborer un
projet d’établissement engageant fortement l’IC
à développer la conformité de l’établissement au
système éducatif français.
Parents be warned: debate long enough
with your teenagers and they may just
end up writing a book.
Whether Ahmad Naji Bakhti’s father
was taken aback when his Lebanese Bac-
calaureate student began writing a book
is unknown but according to Naji (as he
prefers to be called), his father was the
first to suggest printing it.
The Divine and The Insane was re-
leased in December. It’s a story about a
young man in his early 20’s, Bader Baidar,
searching for the “truth” – or whatever he
considers the truth to be. Baidar meets
up with an elderly former priest, Father
John, and together they set out on an ad-
venture.
Since the release of his book, Naji has
become a local IC celebrity.
Still, he remains modest and credits
his father with his thirst for a good argu-
ment. It was Sleiman Bakhati, who in-
stilled the love of debate in his son at an
early age. A journalist for the An-Nahar
newspaper, Bakhati would spend hours
discussing and arguing about all kinds of
controversial subjects with his son until
“my mother and sister tire of us and go off
to do their own thing and we continued
with our heated argument,” recalled Naji
laughing.
All topics were open for debate. No
subject was too controversial for father
and son.
Two years ago he started writing a book.
It wasn’t meant to be published. It was
merely a means to vent out his thoughts.
“I noticed that people tend to understand
my arguments more when I write them
rather than say them,” he said. “But my
father started to read it and thought it
should be published.”
Naji is in the process of writing his second
book.
“The Divine and The Insane”
IC student releases
his first book
Homologation de L’IC Par L’AEFE
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