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Rania Bassil, Lina Mkhaiber nominees for inter-faith dialogue, women’s rights
25-4-2018
In its continuous support of women’s nomination for parliamentary elections, L’Orient Le Jour spotlighted the respective career paths of candidates, Rania Bassil (Jbeil) and Lina Mkhaiber (Matn). Bassil, a pediatric cardiologist recruited by 7 Party Byblos electoral list, has received her MD from USJ and continued her specialty in the US and France before returning to Lebanon in 2010. Besides her career in medicine, Bassil volunteers in health awareness and is currently working on a draft law to rehabilitate government institutions, especially hospitals. Her interest in social issues, she told L’Orient Le Jour, started with the outbreak of the garbage crisis in 2015, as it impacts the health condition of the Lebanese. Disclosing the motive behind her nomination, Bassil said she wanted to fight the discriminatory laws against women. Lina Mkhaiber, on the other hand, comes from a political family in the Matn area and is enlisted on the Lebanese Forces (LF) electoral list. Mkhaiber moved to France during the Civil War after which she travelled to Tennessee, US, where she earned her public health degree and worked in the state of Maryland. In 1991, she returned to Lebanon at the request of her deceased uncle, former MP and physician, Albert Mkhaiber. She found a job at the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) where she learned dialogue and how to accept other people’s differences. She was basically attracted to inter-faith dialogue, which she pledged to place in the forefront of her duties in the event of winning the elections. Later on, Mkhaiber joined the USJ faculty and is currently working at El Roum Hospital, Beirut, according to L’Orient Le Jour. (L’Orient Le Jour, April 25, 2018)
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