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Khalil Khalil
Khalil Khalil (born 1941) is a Lebanese barrister and former diplomat who served as the ambassador of Lebanon in various countries from 1971 to 1994. Early life and education Khalil was born in Tyre on 8 February 1941. He hails from a Shiite family. His parents are Kazem Khalil, a politician, and Mouzayan Haidar. Khalil received a degree in law from the American University of Beirut. Career Following his graduation Khalil worked as a barrister. Then he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first diplomatic post was the ambassador of Lebanon to Iran which he held between September 1971 and September 1978. He was named as the ambassador of Lebanon to the Federal Republic of Germany in October 1978 and remained in office until July 1983. He was the director general of legal affairs department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1983 and 1985. He was the ambassador of Lebanon to the Netherlands from September 1985 to 1990. Next he was appointed ambassador of Lebanon t ...
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Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (; ; ; ; ) is a city in Lebanon, and one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa (consort of Zeus), Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix (son of Agenor), Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". Tyre is the fifth-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. It is the capital of the Tyre District in the South Governorate. There were approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the Tyre urban area in 2016, including many refugees, as the city hosts three of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Burj el-Shamali, Burj El Shimali, El-Buss refugee ...
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Amal Movement
The Amal Movement () is a Lebanese political party and militia affiliated mainly with the Shia community of Lebanon. It was founded by Musa al-Sadr and Hussein el-Husseini in 1974 as the "Movement of the Deprived." The party has been led by Nabih Berri since 1980. The Amal movement gained attention from Shia outcry after the disappearance of Musa al-Sadr and saw a renewal in popularity after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1978. The Iranian Revolution of 1978–79 also provided momentum for the party. The Amal Movement is the largest predominantly Shia party in parliament, having fourteen representatives to Hezbollah's thirteen. Amal has an alliance with Hezbollah. Name The movement's current name was originally used by the Deprived Movement's militia, the " Lebanese Resistance Regiments" (). This name, when abbreviated, created the acronym "Amal", which is Arabic for "hope".Augustus R. Norton, ''Amal and the Shi'a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon'' (Austin and London ...
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Ambassadors Of Lebanon To The Netherlands
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ...
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