On Friday 8, 2011, Notre Dame University NLC organized for the first time on its campus a competition entitled “Teenagers’ Literature”, hosting seventy secondary students from fourteen different public and private schools, particularly from North Lebanon.

The Lebanese National Anthem opened proceedings, followed by a speech from the campus Director, Father Samir Ghsoub, who stressed the “effective role of Notre Dame University in promoting the promising talents of the young that will contribute in the future to uplifting Lebanon’s social and cultural image.” Then, the Coordinator of the Faculty of Humanities, Michael Hajj, explained the competition procedure, which entailed writing a short story about a certain topic in any one of the three languages, Arabic, French or English. A jury of writers and storytellers were to give the results on the 29th of April, 2011, in the presence of the directors of the schools involved and of the parents of the students.

It is important to note that the schools taking part in this event were, in Tripoli, The SacredHeart Public School and The Orthodox National School; in Koubba, the National Orthodox, Al-Mina; in Koura, Collège des Frères, David Karam Center, Dar Al-Nour, and Notre Dame of Bkaftine; in Zgharta, Zgharta Public School and Collège des Pères Carmes, Zgharta; in Akkar, Halba Orthodox Public School and Abdullah Al-Rassy College; and in Bsharreh the Antonine Fathers’.