Lebanese Harvard Speech on Lebanon and Palestine
Summary
r/Lebanon shares a Harvard Medical School graduation speech reflecting on war, displacement, and unequal access to education and medicine. The speaker contrasts studying medicine in the US while her family home in southern Lebanon was destroyed with the realities faced by Lebanese and Palestinian students amid drones and bombed hospitals.
A Lebanese Harvard graduate's speech on Lebanon and Palestine
"Lebanese graduate Leen Ezzeddine delivered a powerful speech at Harvard Medical School’s 2026 graduation ceremony, reflecting on war, displacement, and the unequal realities shaping access to education and medicine.
She recalled learning medicine in the US while a US missile destroyed her family home in southern Lebanon, contrasting her experience with that of Palestinian and Lebanese medical students forced to study under drones and amid bombed hospitals.
'We were told to stay silent as Gaza unfolded before us,' she said, accusing universities of promoting principles such as health equity and human rights only when they are 'politically convenient'.”
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