Militia Battles in Lebanon Rewrite Universities' Lesson Plans

What they don't prepare you for in graduate school is how to react when you find your neighborhood besieged by battling militiamen, your students too terrified to come to class, and your campus surrounded by fighting.

That's what university staff in Beirut have been grappling with these last few days as anti-government and pro-government militias turned West Beirut, which houses the city's top universities and much of their staff, into a battleground in the power struggle for

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