American University of Beirut Closed by Protest Over Kidnap
Teaching shut down indefinitely at the American University of Beirut today as academics stepped up their protests against kidnapings and attacks on staff and students.
It was the first time teachers have indefinitely halted classes at the prestigious 120-year-old U.S.-funded institution.
The AUB Professors’ Committee announced that it will be in “open session on a day-to-day basis to review developments relating to the disappearance of Prof. Nabil Matar.”
Matar, 37, a Christian who lived next to the campus in Muslim West Beirut, vanished Wednesday in what appeared to be the latest in a two-year series of attacks on AUB staff that has included the kidnap-murders of a British professor and an American librarian.
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