Shihab dynasty
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The Shihab dynasty is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax farmers and Emirs of Mount Lebanon from the early 18th to mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule. Before then, the family
The 12th-century Shihab Citadel in Hasbaya in Wadi al-Taym
Bashir Shihab II was the Emir of Mount Lebanon from 1789 until 1840.
Arte Alhambra I
Fouad Chehab
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Fouad Abdallah Chehab was a Lebanese general and statesman who served as president of Lebanon from 1958 to 1964. He is considered to be the founder of the Lebanese Army after Lebanon gained independen
Shihab dynasty
…rule of the Shihabs. Today, the Shihabs are still one of the most prominent families in Lebanon, and the third president of Lebanon after independence, Fuad Chehab, was a member of this family (descending from the line of Emir Hasan, Emir Bashir II's brother) as was former Prime Minister Khaled Chehab. The Shihabs…
Official portrait, 1958
Chehab and his wife, Rose René Poitieux
Chehab (left) and United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser (to Chehab's left) at the Syrian–Lebanese border during talks to end the crisis in Lebanon
Chehabism: the limits of political modernization in Lebanon by Marwan HARB