Membership
Who belongs here
Two conditions. You are Lebanese, or of Lebanese descent at any remove. We do not ask for papers, and a fourth-generation Brazilian is as Lebanese here as anyone in Achrafieh. And you hold senior standing, or a clear trajectory towards it, in enterprise, the professions, public and institutional life, science and technology, or culture.
The bar is not wealth. It is consequence: that your judgement, your record or your access is worth something to another member, and that you intend to make it available.
What it costs
Dues are published, identical for everyone at a given tier, and payable annually. Members resident in Lebanon pay a quarter of the standard rate, as a matter of policy. Nobody is charged a different price because of who they are, or because of what we assume they can pay.
Dues are collected only on acceptance. No payment is taken before a decision.
The hard ones, answered here rather than later.
No. There is no party affiliation, no endorsement of candidates, no confessional quota and no factional alignment. Non-partisanship is written into the charter as a ground for expulsion, not as a value statement, and no serving political officeholder may sit on the Council.
No. Descent at any remove qualifies, and it is declared rather than proven. We do not ask for documentary proof of ancestry.
Never. Confession is not requested, not recorded, and never a criterion at any stage.
You control visibility field by field: all members, your house and sector, on approved request, or hidden. There is no bulk export at any privilege level, no unsolicited direct messaging, and access to the register is rate-limited and monitored. Handling is GDPR-grade for every member regardless of jurisdiction.
A named Council with published terms and rotation, an admissions committee and an ethics committee with an independent chair. The institution is funded by dues and by the Annual Assembly. Income and expenditure are published annually.
Yes, on the grounds set out in the charter: factional use of the floor, breach of confidentiality, harvesting the register, or conduct that damages another member. The route runs through the Ethics and Conduct Committee, and there is an appeal.