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Michel Shiha
Michel Antoine Chiha (1891–1954) was a Lebanese banker, a politician, writer and journalist. Along with Charles Corm, Petro Trad and Omar Daouk, he is considered one of the fathers of the Lebanese Constitution. His ideas and actions have had an important influence on the shaping of the modern Lebanon. Biography Early life and Studies Michel Chiha was born in 1891 in a Christian family of Bmakine, in the Aley District, in the Mount Lebanon Governorate. He hails from a Chaldean Christians, Chaldo-Assyrian family which have migrated from modern day Iraq. His father, Antoine, was a banker who founded in 1876 the Pharaon and Chiha Bank in Beirut, Lebanon. His mother belonged to a rich Melkite Greek Catholic, Greek Catholic family of Beirut, the Pharaons. After completing his studies in the Université Saint-Joseph, he joined in 1907 the family business, the Banque Pharaon & Chiha in Beirut. With the outbreak of the First World War and the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman occupation of the au ...
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Bmakine
Bmakine () is a village in the Aley District of Lebanon. It is 700 meters above sea level. See also *List of cities in Lebanon References Bibliography * External links Bmakine
Localiba Populated places in Aley District {{Lebanon-geo-stub ...
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