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Jawad Boulos    

1899 - 1982

Jawad Boulos was born in Zgharta in the year 1899. His parents were Semaan Boulos and his mother Kattour El-Bacha. He went first to “Mar Youssef” school in Zgharta then to the “Lazarists” school in Aintoura for his secondary education, he stayed there 3 years and three months till December 1914 when teaching was suspended because of World War I. During the war he continued his education with the help of Antonnine monks in Mar Sarkis Zgharta  In 1922, he graduated from the university St. Joseph in Beirut as Bachelor in Law. He married Angele Antoun Sawaya in 1927. He had his own Law office in Tripoli in 1923, and in 1932 he was elected Leader of the Barristers in North Lebanon and reelected in 1938.

He was appointed member of the Lebanese Parliament from 1937 to 1939. And on march 1943 he was nominated minister of foreign affairs, minister of public health and minister of public works.

He retired from political life in 1951 and began his career in historical research. In the years 1961 to 1968 the publishers Moutton published his “encyclopedia” Les Peuples et les Civilisations du Proche-Orient in French and a volume each year. In 1973 Dar Badran published “Lebanon and the Surrounding Countries in Arabic.

In 1971, he founded the “Lebanese Academy” along with Omar Abou Richeh, Fouad Fram Al-Boustany, Said Aakl, Abdallah Al-Aalayili, Charles Malek and Mikhaiil Naimeh and was elected chairman of that Academy.

He was member of the "Lebanese Front" (Al Jubha Al-Lubnaniah) during the civil war in 1975 and withdrew in 1978.

left with Edouard Hnein in 1981

right his funerals in Ehden

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                               a lecture by Jawad Boulos at St Esprit University - Kaslik in the early 70ies

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