{"id":1313,"date":"2019-11-14T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2019-11-14T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:04:15","slug":"generosity-despite-adversity-the-shouf-national-college-the-aub-offer-free-of-charge-tuition-fees-to-the-three-young-kids-of-the-lebanese-protestor-who-was-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/generosity-despite-adversity-the-shouf-national-college-the-aub-offer-free-of-charge-tuition-fees-to-the-three-young-kids-of-the-lebanese-protestor-who-was-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Generosity despite adversity: the Shouf National College & the AUB offer free-of-charge tuition fees to the three young kids of the Lebanese protestor who was shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These beautiful three children sadly lost their dad (38 years old); one of them witnessed the tragedy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Roula Azar-Douglas, a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, editor, author, and PhD candidate living in Beirut, Lebanon, wrote the following on her Facebook Page (Bambi will translate her sister’s words further below):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Au moment o\u00f9 des partisans du pouvoir, aveugl\u00e9s par leur servitude envers leurs leaders et leur haine de l\u2019autre, fabriquent des mensonges sur ce p\u00e8re de famille, honn\u00eate, int\u00e8gre, pacifique, aim\u00e9 de tous ceux qui le connaissent, qui a men\u00e9 les derni\u00e8res \u00e9lections municipales contre les partis politiques et qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 percer leur liste, sauvagement et froidement tu\u00e9 alors qu\u2019il manifestait pacifiquement avec son \u00e9pouse et l\u2019un de ses enfants, d\u2019autres compatriotes de diff\u00e9rentes confessions se portent volontaires pour soutenir sa famille. Ci-dessous la Shouf National College promet d\u2019assurer gratuitement l\u2019\u00e9ducation de ses enfants<\/strong><\/em>” (Roula Azar-Douglas, Faceboook Page, November 14, 2019). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Azar-Douglas wrote her FB message before the latest additional good news from the American University of Beirut<\/em> (AUB) came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the Shouf National Coll<\/em>ege & the AU<\/em>B promised to ensure a free-of-charge education to Mr. Alaa Abu Fakher’s children, from now until their university graduation. This will not make the tragedy disappear but hopefully this will help support his widow and her family for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Bambi’s translation of her sister’s text: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While supporters of those in power, blinded by their loyalty to their leaders and their hatred of others, are fabricating lies about this father who was decent, peaceful, loved by all who know him, who led the recent municipal elections against political parties and who managed to break through their list, and who was brutally and coldy killed while demonstrating peacefully with his wife and one of his children, other compatriots of different faiths volunteered to support his family. Below the Shouf National College promises to provide free education for his children<\/strong><\/em>“<\/strong> (taken from Roula Azar-Douglas, Faceboook Page, November 14, 2019; translated from French to English by Bambi). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May Mr. Alaa Abu Fakher rest in peace. May his family, slowly but surely, find inner peace despite the injustice and the absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May freedom of expression knows how to keep prevailing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May democracy win, not just in Lebanon but also everywhere in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May we keep caring for each other, in small and big ways, like those described in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roula Azar-Douglas, a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, editor, author, and PhD candidate living in Beirut, Lebanon, wrote the following on her Facebook Page (Bambi will translate her sister’s words further below): “Au moment o\u00f9 des partisans du […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}