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The 3 Nations’ Presidents from AUB
October 17th, 2016
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A lot of graduates from AUB have gone on to greener pastures and become elder statesmen in their country – members of parliament, ministers, prime ministers, and presidents. Indeed AUB has produced presidents in the following country: Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan. In fact, the present president of Afghanistan is an alumna of the American University of Beirut. One would have to go back to 1961 in Syria to find the first president who graduated from AUB. Apparently, he or his parents liked American schools. He received his high school certificate from Aleppo American College, obtained his law degree from the University of Damascus, Damascus and true to form, attended the AUB for his master’s degrees. He, however, left the Middle Eastern and North Africa region for his PhD, which he obtained from the University of Geneva. From the time he returned to the country, his political stock continued to rise – he won parliamentary elections in 1936, became the first ambassador to the United States in 1945. With different plot twist having him as the antagonist in some scenes and protagonist in others, he became the President of Syria December 12, 1961. One of his moves as president had him appoint Omar Abu-Riche – a fellow AUB graduate – as the ambassador to the United States. No longer after the tenure of the Ex AUB Syrian president in 1963 did AUB have another alumna representing in Africa – Sudan. His path towards the presidency of Sudan was not an easy one, owing to his heavy activism and opposition to the government of the day – which made the prisons his abode for a year between 1948 and 1949. However, he rose like a phoenix from the ashes to be among the forces responsible for Sudan’s independence in 1956. His legacy as the leader of his people, however, is the persistent divide and hostility between the North and South Sudan, which continues to plague successive governments. He died after leaving office in 1969. The recent admission to the list – the current president of Afghanistan – had both his bachelors and masters degree at the AUB, and delightfully met his wife while studying at the AUB too. He has had a stellar career in the private and public sectors. He worked with the World Bank (and no, he didn’t study finance but anthropology), served as finance minister of Afghanistan, various teaching assignments around the world and Chancellor of Kabul University. After losing the 2009 elections, he entered the 2014 polls again and almost lost, only winning a run-off election. Can you Trace the distance between these countries? Image courtesy of: http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/blatchford/html/205s.html |
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