“Ever since I was young, I dreamed of becoming an audio engineer, but I discovered that this specialization is not taught in Lebanon as a separate discipline in its own right. The closest major was audio-visual journalism, but I didn’t study it because I couldn’t study directing, and I refused to travel and leave Lebanon,” Nasser Ballout, a reporter at Al-Jadeed TV, told Diversity Guide.

“At the time, I wanted to study political science. But my friends advised me, considering that I was more suited to media, especially since I loved writing, and my articles were published in a number of newspapers more than once,” he said, noting that “the fact that I was going through my first experience of school integration among blind people since the age of three, a topic that was highlighted by the media in all its visual, audio and written means, so I had many media appearances to talk about my experience, which made me accustomed to the media and dealing with it.”

Ballout explains that he took “an entrance exam to the Faculty of Media at the Lebanese University. I was annoyed by many factors, most notably that the college building in the Unesco area was never equipped, “mediators” were openly present, and parties have offices in the courtyard of the college stadium, each of which helps you fill out an application for an entrance exam,” he said, noting that “if I had been a journalist at Al-Jadeed TV at the time, as I am now, I would have filmed a report.
as I am now, I would have filmed a report. Everything there could be the subject of a journalistic investigation.”