University of Balamand

University of Balamand

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name = University of Balamand
جـــامـــعـــة الـــبـــلـــمـــنــد
Université de Balamand


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established = 1988
type = Private
president = Elie A. Salem
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country = Lebanon
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website = [http://www.balamand.edu.lb/english/index.asp www.balamand.edu.lb]

The University of Balamand (UOB; _ar. جامعة البلمند) is a private, secular university located at El-Koura, Lebanon. It was founded by the Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988. The university's main campus is adjacent to Balamand Monastery, but it has two other campuses in Beirut: One is in "Sin el-Fil", which houses the majority of the faculty for fine arts, and the other is neighbouring Saint George Hospital in Achrafieh, which houses the faculty for medicine and medical sciences.

Formerly, it was a project at the El-Koura district, which North Lebanon’s department came to continue an inter cultural message in 1988, and to fuse under its administration the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology.

The University of Balamand was founded by the Patriarch Ignatius IV Greek Orthodox, Patriarch of Antioch and all the Eastthrough the concept of a kouranian engineer; "Elias Abi Shaheen", in which the concept formed between years 1983 and 1987, during the Lebanese Civil War.The project started soon after the Governmental Clearance in 1988.

At the present time (2007), the Master Plan at the mount of long heritage in the Balamand region, still incomplete.

Faculties

The university consists of nine faculties since the year 2000, and they are as follows:

* Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Found in both the main campus and Sin el-Fil)
* Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology
* Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
* Faculty of Business and Management
* Faculty of Sciences
* Faculty of Engineering
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Saint George’s Faculty of Post Graduate Medical Education (Found in the Achrafieh campus)
* Faculty of Medicine & Medical Sciences (Found in the Achrafieh campus)

See also

* Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts
* Saint George Hospital
* El-Koura

External links

* [http://www.balamand.edu.lb/english/index.asp Official website]
* http://www.cin.org/east/balamand.html


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