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Hassan Khachfe (born October 19, 1970) is a Lebanese innovator, researcher and professor. He is an academic manager at the Lebanese International University.
Khachfe was born to Lebanese parents from the southern part of the country. He started his college studies in the Physics program at the American University of Beirut, and later continued his formal education in the United States, where he earned a M.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry from Wichita State University and a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Molecular Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine
Khachfe started his career as a research fellow at Northeastern University and also at the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research in Boston. He started his teaching career at the American University of Beirut, and later became the head of the Bioinformatics and Structural Biology Unit. He then joined the Lebanese International University and became Academic Director at its Nabatieh campus. He is a national (Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education) and international (Association of Arab Universities) accredited auditor of higher education programs.
Khachfe runs multidisciplinary research projects and supervises several interdisciplinary research groups such as the Lebanese Institute for Biomedical Research and Application (LIBRA).
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Hassan Khaled was the leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community. As a grand mufti, he presided over Islamic courts in Lebanon for 23 years, and served as Head of the Islamic Coalition, a body which included past and present prime ministers, Sunni parliamentary figures, and Sunni members of Lebanon's government. He was considered a moderate, and upon his assassination was named as the "father of moderation," as he worked throughout his career to bring unity to the warring factions of the Lebanese Civil War. Khaled's assassination in 1989 was widely believed to be the work of Syria.
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Saint Joseph University of Beirut is a private Roman Catholic research university located in Beirut, Lebanon, which was founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule. It is widely recognized as one of the leading and most prestigious academic institutions in Lebanon and Middle East. USJ's roster of graduates includes seven of independent Lebanon's thirteen Presidents, a Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon, two Presidents of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon, Governors of the Banque du Liban, hundreds of legislators and ministers, numerous judges, and high-ranking civil servants, among them Commanders of the Lebanese Armed Forces and executives of the Internal Security Forces. As the oldest and foremost French university in Lebanon, it not only promotes Lebanese culture but also upholds a policy of equal admission opportunity without consideration of ethno-religious affiliations. Furthermore, it advocates trilingual education, offering instruction in Arabic, French, and English. Additionally, it is known in Lebanon and the Middle East for its prominent university hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de France, and for its prestigious and historical Faculty of Law, modern Lebanon's oldest law school and the first law school in Lebanon since the ancient Roman law school of Berytus.
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Hassan Diab is a Lebanese academic, engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 21 January 2020 to 10 September 2021. He was appointed by President Michel Aoun in 2019 to succeed Saad Hariri as prime minister. He submitted his resignation on 10 August 2020 in wake of the 2020 Beirut explosion and served as caretaker prime minister until Najib Mikati formed a new government on 10 September 2021. Prior to his premiership, he served as the minister of education from June 2011 to February 2014 under President Michel Suleiman.
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