In 1995, Lebanon’s parliament passed Law 431/1995: the teaching staff of the national conservatory (LHNCM) are subject to the same regulations as the staff of the Lebanese University. That same year, the Conservatory’s own board decided that the law covers all teaching staff, including foreigners. In 2015, the Ministry of Labor confirmed it in writing: Opinion 1266/2015 classified me as a Category I civil servant. Nobody challenged that determination within the legal window, and it became final.
The Conservatory has never applied any of it. I have taught there since 1994 — paid by the state’s treasury, supervised by its ministry, holding its employee number — without the status that its own law, its own board, and its own ministry say I hold.
In February 2026, I filed the case with Lebanon’s National Anti-Corruption Commission: File 29/2025, under Law 175/2020. The pages below hold the file. Three simple facts run through all of them: the law says civil servant (1995) · the Ministry confirmed it (2015) · the Conservatory ignored it (still).
How claims are labeled
- [PUBLIC RECORD] — published state documents, Official Gazette issues, and press; every such claim links to its source.
- [FROM THE FILE] — documents filed in the case: contracts, payslips, petitions, and submissions, available in the document room.
- [MY ASSESSMENT] — my own signed opinion on the disclosed facts; always labeled, never mixed with the record.
The case pages
- My 31-Year Case in Lebanon — the plain-language overview.
- Case Dossier 1994–2025 — the chronological evidentiary chapters.
- The Material Witness Archive — the on-site evidence register.
- Law 431/1995 — Parity and Civil Service Recognition — the statute page.
- The Legal Fortress — why execution of these rights is mandatory.
- NSSF — Social Security and Employer Liability — the social-security record.
The story behind the file — for readers, journalists, and lawyers — is at The Right to Have Rights.