Thursday, September 10, 2015

A Lebanese woman claims (and Lebanon believes it) that she won the award for "Best PhD in the world"

This is the story in a Lebanese newspaper (the Hariri mouthpiece) and is spreading fast. Yesterday, her hometown in Lebanon honored her for the great achievement.   I posted it yesterday on FB and Twitter in Arabic. A diligent reader did the research and found this: 

"Regarding your post for the best PhD in the world winner, I could not let another achievement just pass by this time , so i took a few minutes to research this.

Here's the  quick findings

he went to Toledo, Spain and won the Student Speech Contest, at the 14th ECerS (European Ceramic Society) Conference . See here

This gets even sillier, MTV lebanon, airs a small footage about the 'achievement' they even show the award and still they claim in the narration that she won 'best PhD international' , who makes this crap up.

Finally, the problem is also with her and not just the silly media, look at her post on instagram, she doesnt even correct it..

And here she gloats about the achievements 

I will stop now coz this is making me sick

You can go to bed now and rest assured the future is so bright for humanity".