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Lebanese students protest a decision by top universities to adopt a new dollar exchange rate to price tuition in Beirut’s Hamra district on December 19, 2020. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Lebanese riot police on Saturday scuffled with students protesting a decision by top universities to adopt a new dollar exchange rate to price tuition equivalent to a major fee hike.
Near the entrance of the American University of Beirut (AUB) in the city’s Hamra district, security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters who were trying to approach the main gate.
Students responded by throwing water bottles and other objects at riot police blocking their path.
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BEIRUT: Lebanese riot police on Saturday scuffled with students protesting a decision by top universities to adopt a new dollar exchange rate to price tuition equivalent to a major fee hike.
Near the entrance of the American University of Beirut (AUB) in the city’s Hamra district, security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters who were trying to approach the main gate.
Students responded by throwing water bottles and other objects at riot police blocking their path.
It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries.
The protest came in response to a decision by AUB and the Lebanese American University (LAU), another top private institution, to price tuition based on an exchange rate of 3,900 Lebanese pounds to the dollar.
2020-12-19 17:35:23 GMT2020-12-20 01:35:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Dana Halawi
BEIRUT, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) Tarek Malaeb, a mechanical engineering student at the American University of Beirut (AUB), may have to postpone his graduation as he is incapable of registering for his last semester given the U.S. dollar crisis and the increase in tuition fees in Lebanon. I will probably have to postpone my last semester because my father may not be able to secure dollars for my last tuition at AUB, Malaeb told Xinhua, whose tuition is valued at over 150 million Lebanese pound a year at the official rate of one dollar against 1,515 Lebanese pound.