November 11, 2026
The Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Rima Karami, is intensifying her contacts and meetings to address the current crisis in the educational sector, against the backdrop of the open strike announced by the Association of Public Secondary Education Teachers to demand their rights, stressing the importance of giving priority to the interests of students and stopping the strike to return to classes.
In this context, Minister Karami held a meeting with a delegation from the Association of Public Secondary Education Teachers headed by Gamal Omar, where the demands that led to the declaration of an open strike were reviewed and studied item by item, so that the Minister reiterated her hope to stop the protest movement and resume the educational process.
On the political and parliamentary level, Karami received a joint delegation representing the Amal Movement and Hezbollah, in the presence of MPs Ihab Hamadeh and Ashraf Baydoun, where discussions focused on the repercussions of the strike and ways to meet the professors’ demands within the framework of the possible.
The minister’s movements also included a meeting with a member of the “Democratic Gathering” bloc, MP Akram Chehayeb, during which the urgent educational and administrative needs of public schools in the Mount Lebanon region were discussed, and ways to secure the foundations for their continuity.
