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The LYM was founded in the early 1970s as an association of Maronite right-wing university students, who strongly opposed the 1969 Cairo Agreement and the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrilla factions in Lebanon, by Maroun el-Khoury (nom de guerre "Bash Maroun"), the son of the former head of the Dekwaneh district of East Beirut, Naim el-Khoury.
Figures used in this chart are based on data compiled and uploaded by the World Bank in May 2013 through their World Development Indicators initiative. [1] The information was provided by the respective governments of the listed countries.
The Fares Al-Khoury government was the fifty-third in modern Syrian history, the thirty-third in the first Syrian republic, the tenth during the second term of president Hashim al-Atassi and the fourth for Fares al-Khoury. It was formed on October 29, 1954 and dissolved February 13, 1955.
Dekwaneh (or Dekweneh; Arabic: دكوانة) is a suburb north of Beirut in the Matn District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Maronite Christian . [ 1 ] Tel al-Zaatar , an UNRWA administered Palestinian refugee camp housing approximately 50,000-60,000 refugees, and the site of the Tel al-Zaatar ...
An example of a wastewater treatment system. Sanitary engineering, also known as public health engineering or wastewater engineering, is the application of engineering methods to improve sanitation of human communities, primarily by providing the removal and disposal of human waste, and in addition to the supply of safe potable water.
El Khoury married Laura Shiha in 1922. [5] She was the sister of banker and intellectual Michel Shiha who helped El Khoury financially and introduced him the ideas about the confessional power-sharing and free market economy. [5] His son Michel El Khoury served as the governor of the Lebanese central bank between 1978 and 1984 and between 1991 ...
Rural sanitary districts were formed in all areas without a town government. They followed the boundaries of existing poor law unions, less the areas of urban sanitary districts. Any subsequent change in the area of the union also changed the sanitary district. At the time of abolition in 1894, there were 572 rural sanitary districts.
Said Tawfiq Khoury (Arabic: سعيد الخوري ) (June 6, 1923 – October 15, 2014) was a prominent Palestinian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was one of the three founders of Consolidated Contractors Company , currently based in Athens .