American University of Beirut
| American University of Beirut | |
|---|---|
| motto | That they may have life and have it more abundantly |
| founding | 1866 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place |
Beirut , Lebanon
|
| president | Fadlo R. Khuri |
| Students | 7,000 |
| Website | www.aub.edu.lb |
The American University of Beirut ( AUB ) is a non-denominational university in Beirut that is registered as a private US university in the state of New York , and thus enables its graduates to continue their studies in the USA. With around 7,000 students, the AUB is one of the most important universities in the Middle East today .
location
The campus has a size of around 250,000 square meters and is located in the Jamia district of the same name ( Arabic جامعة 'University'), which belongs to the Dar el-Mreisseh district. The campus is located on the Mediterranean Sea, only separated from the Corniche Beirut promenade by a street . The radio tower on the opposite side of the Corniche is also called the AUB Tower or University Tower . The university clinic, the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), is located in the neighboring district of Ain el-Mreisseh.
history
It was founded in 1866 in the then Ottoman Empire as a non-state university under the name "Syrian Protestant College" by Protestant missionaries from the USA , as the second US university outside North America after the Robert College founded in Constantinople in 1863 . Even before Lebanon's independence in 1943 , the Protestant theological faculty was split off in 1932 and now became the Near East School of Theology , one of the most important Protestant theological universities in the Arab world.
Library
The university library includes the Nami Jafet Memorial Library , the Engineering and Architecture Library and the Science and Agriculture Library . The Agricultural Research and Education Center (AREC) on the Bekaa level is also connected with its library.
The inventory includes:
- 587,778 individual volumes
- 923 magazines, 244 of them in Arabic
- 57,679 electronic journals
- 1,139,340 individual items in a wide variety of formats, most of them as microfilm , mainly with content from regional, sometimes historical magazines and documents
- 1,398 manuscripts of the “Archives and Special Collections”
- 7,714 diploma and doctoral theses, going back to 1907
- 3,940 posters
- 1,902 cards
- 46,418 historical photographs
Well-known professors and students
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- Haidar Abdel-Shafi (1919–2007), Palestinian doctor and politician
- Hanan Ashrawi (* 1946), Palestinian politician
- Mounir Aoun , storyteller
- Wadi 'al-Bustani , Lebanese poet
- Faris al-Churi (1877–1962), Prime Minister of Syria
- Hassan Diab (* 1959), university professor, education and prime minister
- Walid Dschumblat (* 1949), leader of the Lebanese Socialist Progressive Party
- Samir Geagea (* 1952), Lebanese militia leader
- Ashraf Ghani Ahmadsai (* 1949), Afghan political scientist and politician
- George Habasch (1926–2008), Palestinian activist
- Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), professor of architecture
- Selim al-Hoss (* 1929), economist, former Prime Minister in Lebanon
- Malcolm Kerr (political scientist) (1931–1984), student and president of AUB, former dean of social sciences at UCLA
- Zalmay Khalilzad (* 1951), American diplomat, US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq
- Philip S. Khoury (* 1949), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at MIT
- Said Khoury , Co-Founder of the Consolidated Contractors Company
- Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), German prehistoric archaeologist
- Simone Kosremelli (* 1950), Lebanese architect
- Otto Krayer (1899–1982), German-American doctor and pharmacologist
- Nazim al-Qudsi (1906–1998), President of Syria
- Charles Malik (1906–1987), philosopher, diplomat, Lebanese ambassador, co-author of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
- Najib Miqati (* 1955), engineer, Prime Minister of Lebanon
- Sulaimān an-Nābulusī (1908–1976), Jordanian Prime Minister
- Adel Osseiran (1905–1998), one of the founding fathers of Lebanon and President of Parliament
- Abdallah ar-Rimawi (* 1920), Jordanian Foreign Minister
- Lea Rustom , founder of the Alba tayeb charity 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 Salous (* 1955), Palestinian professor of communications engineering at Durham University
- Ghada al-Samman (* 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 Bahá'ís
- Ja'afar Touqan (* 1938), Palestinian-Jordanian architect
- Ghassan Tueni (1926–2012), journalist, politician, ambassador, editor of the An-Nahar newspaper
- Birgitta Maria Siefker-Eberle (* 1954), German ambassador
- Constantin Zurayk (1909–2000), historian, former AUB professor and president
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home - Academics - Libraries AUB ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ About the AUB-Libraries ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 33 ° 54 ′ 4 " N , 35 ° 28 ′ 52" E
State: Lebanese University (UL)
Private: American University of Beirut (AUB) | Lebanese American University (LAU) | Beirut Arab University (BAU) | Lebanese International University (LIU) | Lebanese German University (LGU)
Denominational universities: Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) | University of Antonine (UA) | University of Balamand (UOB) | University of La Sagesse (ULS) | University of St. Esprit (USEK) | University of the Middle East (MEU) | Haigazian University | Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL) | Islamic University Imam al-Auzāʿī (Ouzai) | Jinan University (JU) | Near East School of Theology (NEST) | Notre Dame University - Louaize (NDU)