As part of a cooperation between the Faculty of Information and Communication at Antonine University and the Michel Zaccour Foundation, UA student Nathalie Issa was awarded the Michel Zaccour Foundation scholarship, in collaboration with the OUSSEIMI Foundation’s Prize for Tolerance, Geneva. This annual scholarship is dedicated to funding research on the life and works of Michel Zaccour and on the history of journalism in Lebanon, as well as the perpetuation of the Michel Zaccour’s vision of an invincible Lebanon.

In this competition, Nathalie Issa adopted the logical-semantic methodology intending to compare the editorials of the newspapers Al-Akhbar and Al-Nahar at the start of the revolution of October 17, 2019, with articles published by Michel Zaccour in “Al-Maarad” in the 1930s. The research in question confirms that Lebanon has unfortunately not made enough progress in terms of corruption and sectarianism.

During the awarding ceremony, Pascale Lahoud, PhD, Executive Vice-Rector of the Antonine University, underlined that journalism is above all a moral commitment; it is also an act of citizenship based on the people's right to determine their destiny and the establishment of powers, and to be unquestionably masters of their decisions.

The cooperation between the two academic and cultural bodies, which has been ongoing since the University’s edition of the series of books "The Founding Fathers of Lebanese Journalism", continues to emphasize the primordial role of Michel Zaccour, this great man of Lebanon whose work and achievements transcend his time and still shape the future of our nation.