![]() ![]() Educated at former American missionary schools in the mountain villages of Bhamdoun and Broummana, he attended AUB as an undergraduate. He would spend the ensuing decades unraveling Lebanon’s fraught historical record, systematically pulling on the different threads that together compose the national mythology of Lebanon. ![]() He was raised during a tumultuous time when the country’s historical and confessional narratives were being shaped, manipulated, negotiated, and imparted. ![]() Kamal Suleiman Salibi was born in Beirut in 1929, while Lebanon was under French mandate. Not only did he help shape the world view of undergraduates for over four successive decades, one would be hard pressed to find a single graduate student of Lebanon– or, indeed, trained in the historiography of the Middle East– in any academy whose intellectual foundations were not in considerable part laid by reading one of the dozen monographs Salibi published during a long and illustrious career. Salibi spent most of his academic career as a faculty member of the Department of History and Archeology at the American University of Beirut (AUB), from 1953 until 1998, at which point he was appointed Professor Emeritus. Scholars of Lebanon collectively grieved at the news of the passing of Kamal Salibi, eminent historian, professor, and prolific author, on Thursday, 1 September, 2011. ![]()
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