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List Of Lebanese People (South Africa)
This is a list of notable individuals born in Africa (outside the Arab World / North Africa) of Lebanese ancestry or people of dual Lebanese and local nationality born and/or residing in Africa. Ghana * Juliet Ibrahim, actress * Majid Michel, actor Ivory Coast *Mehdi Khalil, footballer *Nader Matar, footballer * Mahmoud Kojok, footballer Liberia *Monie Captan, former foreign minister of Liberia *Fouad Hijazi, footballer * Wael Nazha, footballer Nigeria *Gilbert R. Chagoury, businessman, diplomat and philanthropist *Hassan El Mohamad, footballer Sierra Leone *Edward J. Akar, former Minister of Finance * John Akar, writer and diplomat; composer of Sierra Leone's national anthem * Tarek El Ali, footballer *Faisal Antar, footballer * Roda Antar, footballer * Kassim Basma, diamond exporter * Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament *Joe Blell, former Minister of Defense *Samir Hassaniyeh, activist * Ali Hijazi, head coach of the Sierra Leone national basketball team *Nah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roda Antar
Roda Abdelhassan Antar ( ar, رضا عبد الحسن عنتر; born 12 September 1980) is a Lebanese professional association football, football manager and former player. Formerly captain of Lebanon national football team, Lebanon, Antar scored 20 goals for his country as a midfielder. Antar started his career with Tadamon Sour SC, Tadamon Sour, progressing through their youth system to the first-team squad where he made his debut at the age of 17. In 2001, he was loaned to Germany's Hamburger SV for two seasons, winning the DFL-Ligapokal, DFB-Ligapokal in 2003 DFB-Ligapokal, 2003, before moving to SC Freiburg in 2003 on a permanent deal. In 2007, he moved to 1. FC Köln, helping them gain promotion back into the Bundesliga for the 2008–09 Bundesliga, 2008–09 season. In 2009, Antar moved to Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng Taishan F.C., Shandong Luneng Taishan, where he remained for five years and won a league title in 2010 Chinese Super League, 2010; he then playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Hashem
Ali Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor a reporter who covers the Middle East in general with special emphasis on Iranian affairs. He currently serves as a senior journalist at Al Jazeera English and prior to that he was BBC’s Iran affairs correspondent. With BBC he was the first journalist to break the news on the assassination of Qassem Soleimani on January, 3rd 2020. Ali is among the first staff that launched Al Mayadeen news channel in 2012 and BBC’s Arabic Television in 2008. With Al Mayadeen, he served as the channel’s Iran bureau chief, covering the nuclear talks during the presidency of Hasan Rouhani, the nuclear deal in Vienna where he was the only Arab journalist to interview Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the talks and after the announcement on July 14, 2015. During the second decade of the 21st century, he covered the fall of Mosul and the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and produced an hour-long documentary on the group’s leader Abu Bakr Al- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walid Shour
Walid Adel Shour ( ar, وليد عادل شور; born 10 June 1996) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ahed and the Lebanon national team. Starting his senior career at Ahed, he was loaned out to Racing Beirut for one season in 2018. Upon his return to Ahed, he helped them win the 2019 AFC Cup and the 2019 Lebanese Super Cup, before being sent on loan to Shabab Sahel in summer 2021. Born in Sierra Leone to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Lebanese father, Shour was called up to represent Sierra Leone internationally at senior level in 2019, without making an appearance. He opted to represent Lebanon, making his senior debut in 2021. Early life Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Shour began playing at hometown club Kallon in 2010. In 2011, he moved to English club Luton Town, staying until 2014. Between 2015 and 2018, Shour had been a student at Beihang University while playing amateur football in China, and was on trial at Chinese football clubs Chongqing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Saad
John Nicol Sahid Saad (born in Bo, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a minister in the current government. Saad was the Chairman of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in London, United Kingdom for over ten years, but he resigned from the SLPP in 2006 to join the PMDC. He was born in Bo to a Mende mother from Segbwema, Kailahun District and a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese There is a significant population of Lebanese people in Sierra Leone. Migration history Lebanese diaspora, Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ot ... father. He is only the second Sierra Leonean-Lebanese person to be elected to one of the top ministerial po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Raymond-Anthony
Farid Raymond Anthony (born 1933 in Freetown, died 2015 in Gillingham) is a Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone to parents of Lebanese descent. Farid Anthony has written several books, including ''Stories from Sierra Leone'' (), and ''Sawpit Boy.'' Farid Anthony was called to the English bar by Inner Temple in 1962, but he returned to practice at the Sierra Leone bar. He became a door tenant in the chambers of Sir Desmond de Silva QC,Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva Sir George Desmond Lorenz de Silva, (13 December 1939 – 2 June 2018) was a British criminal law barrister and international lawyer who served as the United Nations Chief War Crimes Prosecutor in Sierra Leone. Early life Desmond de Silva was ... then at 2 Paper Buildings in the Temple, whom he met in the course of the 1969 treason trial of Samuel Hinga Norman in Sierra Leone. Farid left Sierra Leone in 1991 with his English-born wife, Joan, and settled in England. He b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisham Mackie
Hisham Mackie (born 1969 ''Diamond Industry Annual Review, Sierre Leone 2004'', p. 7; Partnership Africa Canada. Retrieved July 10, 2010) is a Sierra Leonean businessman. He is by far the biggest diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for 51% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports Mackie runs H.M Diamond, a company which accounted for 40% of all diamond exports in 2005. Biography Hisham Mackie was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone on April 6, 1969 to aSierra Leonean-Lebanese< ...
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Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil
Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil (1936 - 2000) was a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese businessman, diamonds and commodities trader. He attained prominence in the diamond industry across Africa and Antwerp and became an influential figure in the politics of Sierra Leone through his close association with President Siaka Stevens. Jamil also came to dominate other business sectors including fisheries, tourism construction and aviation. In 1987, he and several prominent politicians, including Vice President Francis Minah, were implicated, convicted and sentenced to death in the failed assassination plot against President Joseph Momoh. Jamil escaped and was exiled from Sierra Leone. He returned to Freetown before leaving it again during the 1999 RUF invasion. Early life Jamil was born in Freetown in 1936 to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Lebanese father. Career Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil built his vast fortune by exporting diamonds to Antwerp during the seventies and eighties. He was arguabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahim Khadi
Nahim Khadi (Born 1948, Freetown) is a former Sierra Leonean international football star and the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. He was elected to the position in 2004, after defeating his closest rival, Joseph Samba Kelfala during the 2004 election. He was born to Sierra Leonean-Lebanese parents. Khadi played for Sierra Leone national football team known as the Leone Stars The Sierra Leone national football team represents Sierra Leone in men's international association football and it is governed by the Sierra Leone Football Association. The team's nickname is Leone Stars. The team is affiliated to the West Afr ... during the sixties and seventies and also turned out for five local clubs including the country's two biggest and most popular clubs, East End Lions and Mighty Blackpool. Nahim Khadi is also one of the first Sierra Leonean people of full Lebanese origin to represent Sierra Leone at any sport. On the 20th of July 2008 he was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Hijazi
Ali Hijazi (born November 23, 1976) is a former Sierra Leonean international basketball player and the current manager of the Sierra Leone national basketball team. He has been the coach of the national basketball team since 2004. Hijazi was born in Freetown Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and p ..., the capital city of Sierra Leone to parents of Lebanese descent. He is a father of three girls ; Rayan , Maya and Alina . Hijazi is also a business man and the current exclusive agent of Phillip Morris. He is also known for being a great humanitarian by helping the war stricken people of Sierra Leone. External links * http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,print,0&cntnt01articleid=2026&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01returnid=304 Living people Sportspeople from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samir Hassaniyeh
Samir Hassanyeh (born in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean civil right activist. He is currently the chairman and president of the Sierra Leonean-Lebanese There is a significant population of Lebanese people in Sierra Leone. Migration history Lebanese diaspora, Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ot ... community in Sierra Leone. Samir Hassanyeh has spent most of his adult life fighting the Lebanese in Sierra Leone. He is currently the chairman of the Marine and General Insurance Company. He is also the C.E.O of Mercury International. He married in 1966 and divorced in 1978. He then later remarried in 2012. He currently lives in Freetown, Sierra Leone. References Living people Sierra Leonean people of Lebanese descent Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kenema {{Activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Blell
Joseph Blell is a politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as Sierra Leone's High commissioner to Nigeria from 1993 to 2002. He was also Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Défense from 2002 until 2007. He is a Sierra Leonean. He entered the Military School, Juba Barracks, Freetown from 1961-1966. He is the President of the African Centre for Strategic Studies, Chapter 29(2011-2015). Blell was the Deputy Minister of Defence from 2002-2007 (President Tejan-Kabbah was the Substantive Minister). Blell, the ''de facto'' Minister, was the Pivot of the Restructuring Programme of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces. The Armed Forces had been decimated by the Rebel War, was now a force to be reckoned with. It was during this period that the Armed Forces were reduced from a war-time high of over 20,000 to just over 8000 at present. Before that he served as Sierra Leone High Commissioner to Federal Republic of Nigeria and accredited to several counties: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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