For thirty-one years I have served as a full-time professor and principal saxophonist at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. On paper, Lebanese public law placed me on the same First Category track as Lebanese University professors. In practice, those rights were never executed: no pension registration, no proper salary scale, no health coverage, and repeated reliance on provisional residency. This page gives a plain-language overview of that gap and points to the primary documents.

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The Case in One Page

The short version is this: in 1994 the Lebanese state hired me as a full-time professor at the National Conservatory, then built thirty-one years of practice on pretending I was not a First Category civil-servant professor. Laws that guaranteed parity with Lebanese University faculty were never executed. My status remained “useful but invisible”: essential for the institution, absent from the registries that produce salary, pension, and health rights. The documents on this site show how that invisibility was maintained across different governments and ministries, and how it is now being formally reviewed by the Ministry of Justice.

Timeline: Four Acts of a 31-Year Case

Act I

1994–2009 — Building a Life on Provisional Ground

• Recruited to the National Conservatory as a full-time professor and principal saxophonist, with teaching, performance, and institutional duties equivalent to First Category faculty.
• Residency in Lebanon tied to the Conservatory job and work-permit system; renewal of status depended on the employer.
• Law 431/1995 entered into force, tying Conservatory professors in principle to the Lebanese University First Category track, but this parity was not executed in salary, pension, or benefits.
• Work-permit and residency fees were treated as my personal burden, despite being a condition of state service.

Act II

 2010–2014 — Attempts to Regularize a Non-Status

• Repeated attempts to clarify my legal position with Conservatory administration and ministries, seeking recognition as First Category in line with Law 431/1995.
• Continued payment of residency and work-permit costs that should have been borne by the institution or state, while my teaching load remained at full capacity.
• No registration in the state pension system despite decades of continuous service.
• No effective NSSF wage base that reflected my actual working hours or responsibilities.

Act III

• In 2015, the Ministry of Labor issued a formal determination (Blue-Ink Letter 1266/2015) confirming uninterrupted service at the Conservatory and placing my status within the public-sector / civil-service regime rather than private-sector labor law.
• The letter acknowledged the institution’s responsibility for residency and employment procedures and documented repeated failures to regularize my status.
• Instead of executing the determination, the administration effectively buried it: no reclassification, no pension registration, no correction of past violations.
• From this point forward, non-execution can no longer be treated as ignorance; it is informed institutional choice.

Act IV

 2016–Today — Collapse, Escalation, and Legal Review

• Lebanon’s currency collapse reduced my effective salary to a small fraction of its original value, while teaching hours and responsibilities remained constant.
• The combination of legal non-recognition and financial collapse produced a situation in which a full-time state professor was treated as both indispensable and structurally disposable.
• The case was escalated through multiple ministries, including Labor, Culture, and Justice, resulting in the current formal review by the Ministry of Justice of my First Category status.
• The legal and financial reconstructions on this site are designed to make that review impossible to ignore: they show what the law already requires and what non-execution has cost.

The Legal Anchors Behind the Case

This is not a plea for special treatment. It is a demand that existing law be executed. A small set of public-law instruments defines the case:

• Law 431/1995 — ties Conservatory professors to Lebanese University First Category professors in rank, salary, allowances, and retirement.
• Decree 112/1959 — sets out the rights of First Category civil servants, including pension, end-of-service, housing, transport, and family allowances.
• Cassation Court decisions — confirm that parity with Lebanese University professors is real, enforceable, and retroactive where it has been denied.
• Ministry of Labor Letter 1266/2015 — written acknowledgment of my uninterrupted public-sector service and of the institution’s non-execution.
• Core administrative-law principles — legality, continuity of the administration, and the duty to execute binding laws and decisions once status is recognized.

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Where to See the Full Record

This overview is deliberately short. The detailed record is available elsewhere on this site for anyone who needs to see the underlying documents, legal analysis, and financial reconstruction.

• The Material Witness Archive — complete set of scanned originals, bilingual analyses, and ministerial documents.
• The Legal Fortress: Why Execution of My Rights Is Mandatory — doctrinal framework that shows why First Category status, once recognized, must be executed across all ministries.
• The Financial Case in Plain Numbers — conservative reconstruction of what three decades of non-execution have cost in salary, pension, and social-security terms.

This page is meant to give a readable overview, not an argument. The full record—including documents, legal analysis, and financial reconstruction—is available through the links above for anyone who needs deeper detail or primary sources.