The Lebanese Club @ MIT (LCM) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan MIT-based organization established in 1970 to foster a sense of community among the Lebanese students at MIT and to promote Lebanese culture and concerns at the Institute and the Greater Boston area at large.
Most recently, MIT presented the 2007 Agent of Change award to the LCM. The annual award honors the MIT student organization that best displays commitment to and passion for justice and activism to create positive change in and beyond MIT. The LCM received the award because of its dedication, resourcefulness, and professionalism in spearheading a Boston-wide campaign to raise public awareness and aid funds for Lebanon after the July 2006 War with Israel, according to MIT. The LCM was also officially credited for making the highest deposit ever by a student group after a single event fundraiser, in reference to an LCM benefit concert during the 34-day conflict.
Events organized by the club range from cultural outings, get-togethers, and movie series, to mega theatrical productions, international conferences, and high-profile speaker series, attracting multiple 500+ person audiences a year in those events.
The LCM has been cited by the Mayors of Boston and Cambridge in their Official Proclamations of Gibran Day in both cities in honoring the LCM’s production of ElAchkar’s A Child of Life monodrama, has received MIT’s Best Program of the Year Award in 2003 for Libanissimo III, has broken multiple MIT budgetary records by setting new standards for organized student programming, and has received the official gratitude and endorsement of the Prime Minister of Lebanon and Ministers of Finance, Economy & Trade, Telecom, Administrative Reform, and Culture for its TECHLEB|06 initiative and conference. This solution-driven conference provided tangible outcomes to advance Lebanon?s knowledge economy and placed the LCM at the forefront of student activism and
public service.
The LCM has co-founded the Harvard-MIT Lebanese Affairs Think Tank (LATT) in October 2005 with a group of nonpartisan Boston-based students and professionals in response to the series of historical developments sweeping Lebanon at the time. Transcending the boundaries of MIT and the student community, the club's current membership also enjoys active non-students, non-MIT affiliates, and non-Lebanese nationals/expatriates.
The club and its members have been regularly featured and interviewed in major media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, NECN, Kalam el Nas (LBCI), Iktisaduna Wal Alam (Future TV), iTECH (AlHurra TV), Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Annahar, Assafir, Daily Star, L’Orient Le Jour, Lebanon Opportunities, Executive, Dar AlHayat, Profile News, Eagle Tribute, Tech Talk, the Eagle Tribute, the Tech, Harvard Crimson, Brookline TAB, among others.
