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IC NEWSLETTER -
SPRING 2009 15
Campus News
Eight theatre arts IB students travelled
to Norway last November and joined
students from the Mjolan school in
the district of Mo-i-rana. During their
week long stay, they participated in
a workshop led by the Norwegian
theatre teachers while Norwegian
students were given a workshop by
Riad Chirazi, the head of IC’s drama
department, who accompanied IC
students to Norway.
This is the first theatrical exchange
program at IC. The idea began four
years ago, when a group of Norwegian
students came to IC and participated
in a theatre workshop. Norway has
been inviting Lebanese students, fully
sponsored, for the past three years but
Lebanon’s recent unrests prevented IC
students from travelling. Finally, they
were able to go.
At the end of their stay, Lebanese
and Norwegian students presented
a joint performance based on a
theme inspired by Lebanese music. IC
students later spent two days skiing in
Sweden.
The trip was so successful that Chirazi
aims to see “all theatre students and
not just IB ones, participate in the now
yearly exchange program,” he said.
IB students
go to
Norway
For three months in the summer of 1918, the IC campus (inTurkey) and staff
welcomed some 2000 wounded and disabled Allied prisoners of war
waiting exchange and repatriation.
The author A.A. Milne (creator of Winnie the Pooh)
was one of these POW’s.
IC graduates (in the late 1890’s) did so well in their advanced studies that,
by the turn of the century, they were admitted without examination to leading
European and US institutions such as the University of Geneva, The University of
Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
IC started out with five students in 1891
and today boasts more than 3,400 students in Ras Beirut and Ain Aar campuses.
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