On the 18^th May 2017, the Faculty of Mass Communication and Fine Arts organized a gathering about “ The New Media Law and Challenges of the Digital World.” with the Member of the Lebanese Parliament and the Chairman of the Media and Communication Committee of the Lebanese Parliament, Dr. Hasan Fadlallah.The meeting took place on the premises of the University in commemoration of the Resistance and Liberation of the year 2000.

Dr. Ali Takach, the Dean of the Mass Communication and Fine Arts, congratulated the audience for the Resistance and Liberation Remembrance and pointed out that “the event of 17th of May represented a date of regenerated youth and  it came at the right time when Al Maaref University had managed to obtain an official approval for establishing a Faculty of Engineering and a Faculty of Sciences from the Lebanese Ministry Cabinet". 

The MP Dr. Hassan Fadlalah described in his speech about the significance of licensing two new faculties, Engineering and Sciences and drawing the attention to the ethical practice that Al Maaref University’s stakeholders had undertaken in this regard. For him, the University had to face all the challenges and unnecessary delays caused by the idiosyncratic attitude and inefficiency of some official affiliates in the political environment. The MP affirmed that Al Maaref University was a leading model in abiding with all the details of the higher education laws, all the way through the period of the university establishment, launch and development.

After his explanation of the three axes that constituted the new media legislation, Dr. Fadlallah, stressed on the pivotal role nowadays of the mobile phones and anticipated that so soon this " new technology will replace many of the mass media channels; already many sources of advertising income in TV are migrating to mobiles and the internet platforms".

At the end of the commemoration event, Dr. Fadlallah and Professor Ali Alaeddine, the University President, launched lively the new University Website and was followed up with a brief description by the University Secretary General about the value of 'student centeredness' in driving the processes of developing the university website structure, functions and content. He added also that the" website represented a crucial embodiment of group ethos that involved all walks of the university's offices, faculties, departments, and directorates".