Born 16 April 1885 Damascus, Ottoman Empire Died 7 November 1935 (aged 50) Paris, France There is nothing in the biography of Charles Debbas, the Francophone orthodox lawyer and journalist, that he fought political battles other than the battle of the struggle against Turkish rule. He came to the local […]
Birth December 26, 1843 Helta Death December 24, 1931 (aged 87) Bkerke He is recognized as the father of modern Lebanon and by some as the founder of the Lebanese state. On the day General Gourau declared “Greater Lebanon,” Maronite Patriarch Elias Howayek sat to his right, and the Grand
Born May 15, 1920 Rayfoun, Lebanon Died May 12, 2019 (aged 98) Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon Patriarch Sfeir played a pivotal role on the internal Christian arena, and on the national level as well, with his explicit support for the Taif Agreement. In the year 2000, months after the Israeli withdrawal from southern
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Born Cairo, 1901 Died Lebanon, 1966 The construction of the Lebanese National Museum began in 1930 and was completed in 1937. It was “engineered” by Antoine Selim Nahas, born in Cairo in the first year of the twentieth century and died in Beirut in 1966. The museum is the
Born Michel Dabaghi September 7, 1908 Lake Charles, Louisiana, US Died July 11, 2008 (aged 99) Houston, Texas, US Maestro of heart surgery and the most famous in the world. The first to perform surgery to repair a hole in the heart, the first to perform an operation via television,
Born March 6, 1908, Tannourine, Lebanon Died January 12, 1986 (aged 77) Cairo, Egypt Dagher was born in Tannourine, LebanonShe moved to Cairo in 1919, when she was only 11 years old, after the French occupation of Syria and Lebanon. He obtained Egyptian nationality in 1933.The first time he played
Born: 1904 Died: February 1994 A Lebanese writer, historian, academic and politician. One of the greatest contemporary intellectuals in Lebanon and the most important critic of Arabic literature. He contributed to the establishment of the Lebanese University in 1951 and was its first president. In 1976 he joined the Lebanese Front
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Born Rafic Bahaa El Deen Al Hariri 1 November 1944 Sidon, Lebanon Died 14 February 2005 (aged 60) Beirut, Lebanon For three decades, Rafik Hariri worked in the shadows and the light to build man, stone and the future. Since heading the first government in 1992, he entered the senior
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Born 10 November 1947 Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon Died 14 September 1982 (aged 34) Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon Own the raw material of the leader and dreams of the fighter. The owner of the 10,452 km logo. The youngest president of the republic, he was elected on August 23, 1982 in light of the Israeli occupation of
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Born April 3, 1900 Deir el Qamar, Ottoman Empire Died August 7, 1987 (aged 87) Beirut, Lebanon He is the tiger, the hunter, the king, the president and a skilled player on the Lebanese, regional and international stage. He is Camille Chamoun, the captivating figure in Lebanon’s political history in the twentieth century. He
