American University of Beirut

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The American University of Beirut ( AUB ) is a non - denominational university in Beirut, which is registered as a private university in the U.S. state of New York, and thus enables its graduates to continue their studies in the United States. The AUB today, with about 7,000 students one of the major universities in the Middle East.

Location

The campus has a size of about 250,000 square meters and is situated in the district of Hamra, on the Mediterranean, just across the road from the Corniche Beirut. The radio tower on the opposite side of the Corniche is also called AUB Tower or Tower University. University Hospital, the American University Hospital is also located in Hamra ( West Beirut ).

History

It was founded in 1866 in the then Ottoman Empire as a non-governmental university under the name Syrian Protestant College by Protestant missionaries from the United States, as a second U.S. university outside of North America, founded in 1863 by the Robert College in Constantinople Opel. Even before the independence of Lebanon 1943, the Protestant Theological Faculty was split off in 1932, which has gone into today's Near East School of Theology, one of the most important Protestant theological colleges in the Arab world.

Library

The University Library is one of the Nami Japheth Memorial Library, the Engineering and Architecture Library and the Science and Agriculture Library. The Agricultural Research and Education Center ( AREC ) in the Bekaa Valley is also connected with his library.

Available in the University Library is approximately:

  • 587 778 individual volumes
  • 923 Magazine, 244 of them in Arabic
  • 57 679 electronic journals
  • 1.13934 million items in various formats, most microfilm, especially with content from regional, partly historical journals and documents
  • 1,398 manuscripts of the "Archives and Special Collections"
  • 7,714 graduate and doctoral dissertations back to 1907
  • 3940 Posters
  • 1,902 cards
  • 46 418 historical photographs

Known students and professors

  • Hanan Ashrawi ( b. 1946 ), Palestinian politician
  • Mounir Aoun, known storytellers
  • Wadi 'al- Bustani, Lebanese poet
  • Faris al - Churi (1877-1962), Prime Minister of Syria
  • Walid Jumblatt ( born 1949 ), leader of the Socialist Progressive Party of Lebanon
  • Samir Geagea ( born 1952 ), Lebanese militia leader
  • George Habash (1926-2008), Palestinian activist
  • Zaha Hadid ( b. 1950 ), Professor of Architecture
  • Selim al - Hoss ( born 1929 ), economist, former Prime Minister of Lebanon
  • Zalmay Khalilzad ( born 1951 ), American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq
  • Philip S. Khoury ( b. 1949 ), Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty at MIT
  • Said Khoury, co-founder of the Consolidated Contractors Company
  • Manfred Korfmann (1942-2005), German archaeologist prehistoric
  • Simone Kosremelli ( b. 1950 ), Lebanese architect
  • Otto Krayer (1899-1982), German -American physician and pharmacologist
  • Nazim al - Qudsi (1906-1998), President of Syria
  • Charles Malik (1906-1987), philosopher, diplomat, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. and at the UN, co-author of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
  • Najib Miqati ( b. 1955 ), engineer, Prime Minister of Lebanon
  • Sulaimān to - Nābulusī (1908-1976), Jordanian Prime Minister
  • Adel Osseiran (1905-1998), one of the founding father of Lebanon and Parliament President
  • Fuad Rifka (1930-2011), professor of philosophy and translator
  • Abdallah al- Rimawi (* 1920), Jordanian Foreign Minister
  • Lea Rustom, founder of Alba tayeb welfare organization
  • Elias Saba, Lebanese Minister
  • Saeb Salam (1905-2000), former Prime Minister of Lebanon
  • Kamal Salibi (1929-2011), Lebanese historian, AUB Emeritus Professor of History
  • Sana Salou ( born 1955 ), Palestinian Professor of Communications Engineering at University of Durham
  • Ghada al- Samman ( born 1942 ), Syrian writer
  • Randa Bassem Serhan, sociologist
  • Abdul- Rahman Shahbandar (1880-1940), anti-French nationalist and Syrian Foreign Minister
  • Serene Husseini Shahid (1920-2008), Palestinian writer
  • Kamal Shair, founder and senior partner of Dar Al- Handasah
  • Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957), leader of the Bahai faith
  • Ja'afar Touqan ( b. 1938 ), the Palestinian- Jordanian architect
  • Ghassan Tueni (1926-2012), journalist, politician, ambassador, editor of An-Nahar newspaper
  • Birgitta Maria Siefker -Eberle (born 1954 ), German Ambassador
  • Mohamad El Zein, engineering
  • Constantin Zurayk (1909-2000), historian, former AUB professor and President
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