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Beirut: 1963 Commercial bank P A Banque du Liban: Financials Banks Beirut: 1963 Central bank S A Banque Zilkha: Financials Banks Beirut: 1946 Defunct, merged into Société Bancaire du Liban in 1958 P D Beirut International Center Production (BIC) Consumer services Broadcasting & entertainment Beirut: 2007 Media production P A Beirut Stock ...
Early migration of Lebanese people to the Emirates began during Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) which resulted in a high influx of Lebanese moving their businesses to Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi and continued to do so during the 1990s and the further ongoing civil unrest in Lebanon due to the 2011 Syrian Civil War.
Angela Jurdak Khoury, Lebanon's First Woman Diplomat. The most notable alumna of the American University of Beirut is Angela Jurdak Khoury, who completed her undergraduate studies in 1937 and her master's degree in 1938. [69] She is the first known woman to graduate with a master's degree from the American University of Beirut.
Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. [1] From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [ 2 ] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [ 3 ]
Around that time, Lebanon counted just over 27,000 telephones, massively concentrated in its capital city, Beirut. [21] By 1957, demand for telephone services outpaced supply, as seen in the contracts signed with Ericsson, to expand the network with 25,000 new lines in the country's main cities, and with Siemens, to build a state-of-the-art ...
In October 2019, and until August 2020, a series of civil protests ensued in Lebanon, now known as the 17 October Revolution condemning sectarian rule amongst a myriad of other issues plaguing their country. [37] Lina Khatib, a journalist for Al Jazeera, has labelled these protests as "cross-sectarian". She notes: "They are taking place across ...
Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Arabic: جامعة القديس يوسف في بيروت; French: Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, commonly known as USJ) is a private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule.