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International College ( Arabic: الكلية الدولية في بيروت) is an independent non-profit international school in Beirut, Lebanon. Its students come from all over Lebanon, as well as the Middle-East and around the world. With two campuses, one in the Lebanese capital Beirut and the other in the urban hillsides ( Ain Aar ), the ...
History. The creation of the Lebanese University was an idea first mentioned in the speech of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hamid Frangieh, during the closing ceremony of the Third UNESCO Conference in Beirut held on 11 December 1948, during which he said: "Lebanon hopes to see the creation of a Lebanese university having the spirit of UNESCO."
Beirut Baptist School. Beirut Evangelical School for Girls and Boys. Beirut Modern School – bms95 .edu .lb. College La Sagesse St Joseph – Ashrafieh – Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut (city); sagessesja .edu .lb. Collège Louise Wegmann – clw .edu .lb. College Melkart – melkart .edu .lb.
Lebanon is located in West Asia between latitudes 33° and 35° N and longitudes 35° and 37° E. Its land straddles the "northwest of the Arabian Plate ". [171] The country's surface area is 10,452 square kilometres (4,036 sq mi) of which 10,230 square kilometres (3,950 sq mi) is land.
Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport ( Arabic: مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي بيروت, (previously known as Beirut International Airport) ( IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA) is the only operational commercial airport in Lebanon. It is located in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the city center.
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ; French: Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.
The Lebanese International University was established in April, 2001, as "The Bekaa University" under Presidential Decree No.5294 as, with its grand campus constructed within the western region of the Beqaa Valley; at Al-Khyara, the West Beqaa (al-Beqaa al-Gharbi). Having graduated its first Freshman class in June 2002, a new campus in Beirut ...
Displaced. ≈300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...