For the first time in more than 30 years, the American University of
Beirut will award six honorary doctorates of humane letters on the day
of this year's graduation ceremony, June 28. The recipients will
be Lakhdar Brahimi, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan for Afghanistan; Carlos Ghosn, currently president and chief
executive officer of Nissan Motor Company; Amin Maalouf, journalist and
novelist, winner of the Prix Goncourt; Hasib Sabbagh, chairman and
co-owner of Consolidated Contractors International; Edward Said,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University;
and Helen Thomas, doyenne of the White House press corps and syndicated
columnist with Hearst Newspapers.
The program, first established in 1890, recognizes individuals of
outstanding achievement and personal merit. The first honorary degrees
were awarded to Faris Nimr (BA 1874), teacher of Arabic and head of the
Lee Observatory and Yakub Sarruf, one of the five members of the first
AUB graduating class of 1870-teacher, astronomer, translator, and poet.
Honorary degrees were later awarded to AUB founders Daniel Bliss and Stuart
Dodge (1916), former AUB president Bayard Dodge (1966), and Lebanese
historian Philip Hitti (1969).
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the article entitled:
AUB Seeks Nominations for 2004 Honorary Doctorates
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