Pictures circulating on social media platforms in Lebanon sparked widespread anger, as they showed the suffering of the Lebanese University students in the study, who had to use their personal phones for lighting in order to continue reading, due to the power outage.
And the director of the International Information Corporation, Jawad Adra, published - through his Twitter account - a picture of students studying by the light of mobile phones. due to a power outage.
Adra commented on the photo, saying, "Students at the Lebanese University are studying constitutional law in the dark, and honorable politicians are waiting outside for electricity, medicine, food, and judges' salaries to be brought in, and the military decides who will be the next president of the republic and with him the prime minister. Yes, the subject of "constitutional law!"
The pioneers of social media platforms in Lebanon circulated the image widely, criticizing the poor electrical service in the country and its continuous interruption, while holding the Lebanese authorities and those responsible for the electricity sector responsible for that.
Blogger Ahmed Saad wrote, on his Twitter account, "This picture is from the Lebanese University. Darkness. A lesson in the light of the mobile phone. The hidden is greater. Even the right to education is denied, and whoever does not like it should emigrate or go to a private university owned by the leader. The Lebanese University is being destroyed while The representatives of the parties and the change are competing, who presents the best skit on the screens.
Muhammad al-Rifai commented, "Are there any rulers in the country who gave importance to the National University in part of his speech, or considered it a red line, or prepared a demonstration to support it? Of course not."
Tweeter Hisham Musalli wrote, "This is how homelands are destroyed by destroying their flag and society. Leaders and all statures have fallen."
No explanatory statement was issued by the university or any responsible party, to comment on the circulated photo.
Professor at the Doctoral Higher Institute and a member of the Higher Authority for Supervising Parliamentary Elections, Nassim Al-Khoury, published - earlier on his Facebook account - a picture during the oral interviews that were completed at the institute for the advanced students, while they were using the lights of cell phones. The students appeared - at the time - using the lights of their mobile phones, while discussing their research projects, due to the power outage.
For more than a year, Lebanon has been suffering from power outages from facilities and homes for long hours - sometimes up to 22 hours per day - due to the scarcity of fuel allocated to operate power plants, due to the lack of foreign exchange intended for imports.
For more than two and a half years, Lebanon has been suffering from a severe economic and financial crisis, which has caused a sharp deterioration in the value of the national currency against the dollar, a shortage of fuel, medicine and other basic commodities, and an unprecedented rise in poverty rates.
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