The American University of Beirut is a private international university which has its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. As of January 2020 [update] , the university has 9,495 students, 1,214 faculty and over 70,000 alumni. [1]
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anwar ul-Haq Ahady | 1973 | Minister of Commerce and Industry (2010–2013), Minister of Finance (2004–2009) | |
| Farouq Azam | 1973 | chairman, Movement for Peaceful Transformation of Afghanistan. Ex-minister of education, ex-minister of refugees & repatriates | |
| Ashraf Ghani | 1973 | president of Afghanistan 2014-2021 | [2] |
| Yousef Pashtun | 1973 | Minister of urban development (2002, 2004–2009), governor of Kandahar Province (2003) | [3] |
| Name | Class year | Notability | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avedis Donabedian | 1944 | Armenian doctor and pioneer in study of health care, known for the Donabedian model | [4] |
Camille Nimr Chamoun OM, ONC was a Lebanese politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990).
Abd Allah, also spelled Abdallah, Abdellah, Abdollah, Abdullah, Abdulla, Abdalla and many others, is an Arabic name meaning "Servant of God". It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd (عبد) and Allāh (الله). Although the first letter "a" in Allāh, as the first letter of the article al-, is usually unstressed in Arabic, it is usually stressed in the pronunciation of this name. The variants Abdollah and Abdullah represent the elision of this "a" following the "u" of the Classical Arabic nominative case. Abd Allah is one of many Arabic theophoric names, meaning servant of God. God's Follower is also a meaning of this name.
The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University through the merger of the Medical School and the Institute of Law. It adopted its current name after the founding of the University of Aleppo in 1958.
Khoury, also transliterated as Khouri, is a Levantine surname that is found among Christians in the Middle East. The term Khoury means "priest" in Levantine Arabic. It derives from the Latin word curia, or may come from the French curé meaning parish Priest, from Medieval Latin curatus "one responsible for the care ," from Latin curatus, past participle of curare "to take care of".
The National Order of the Cedar is the highest state order of Lebanon, established on 31 December 1936. It is offered in five grades.
Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed An Nahar, one of the Arab world's leading newspapers. Some call him "The Dean of Lebanese Journalism".
Events in the year 1945 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Lebanese Sunni Muslims refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Sunni branch of Islam in Lebanon, which is one of the largest denomination in Lebanon tied with Shias. Sunni Islam in Lebanon has a history of more than a millennium. According to a CIA 2018 study, Lebanese Sunni Muslims constitute an estimated 30.6% of Lebanon's population.
Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christians refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Lebanon, which is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and is the second-largest Christian denomination in Lebanon after the Maronite Christians.
Saadi Al Munla was a Lebanese politician and one of the former Lebanese prime ministers. He also served as minister of economy.
Middle Eastern Americans are Americans of Middle Eastern background. This includes people whose background is from the various Middle Eastern and West Asian ethnic groups, such as the Kurds and Assyrians, as well as immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab world, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and Armenia.
The following lists events that happened in 2007 in Lebanon.
Ghattas Khoury is a professor of General and Vascular Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center and a Lebanese politician. He is the former Minister of Culture in Lebanon. He is also a former member of the Lebanese parliament and former president of the Lebanese Order of Physicians.