Students stranded in Lebanon

Colleges and Universities A-Z American University
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<p>I hope nobody on CC has a student in this situation.
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<p>Beirut is a popular study abroad destination for middle eastern studies students. Before this conflict, it was considered the safest place to go in the middle east outside of Turkey(which I dont really consider the middle east). The lack of safe study abroad options was one of the reasons I decided to take up chinese over arabic at AU.</p>

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<p>I'm not going to bother finding the links to prove this, but American University in Beirut is not affiliated with the American University in DC at all. So probably nobody from CC is there right now. It's still sad that anyone is though. But don't worry. You probably don't know them.</p>

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<p>wow. i guess it's easy to make up stuff when you don't "bother finding the links to prove this". Go to <a href="http://www.auabroad.american.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.auabroad.american.edu/&lt;/a> and you'll discover that AU Beirut is a campus of the AU Abroad program. A couple of weeks ago Good Morning America interviewed to AU Beirut students. Thankfully they said they were fine and that the campus was the safest place in Lebanon to be right now.</p>

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<p>What I said was actually an almost verbatim quote, I just didn't remember where I had found it. Here is the link to AU's media relations site:
<a href="http://www.american.edu/media/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.american.edu/media/&lt;/a>
The upper right-hand corner reads:

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Turmoil in the Mideast
American University (AU) is not affiliated with American University of Beirut (AUB)"

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<p>Just like the American University in Cairo, the school's aren't related officially but are independent universities that allow student exchange. The similar naming can be confusing though.</p>