American University of Beirut Gets President
Reuters
BEIRUT, Lebanon —
The American University of Beirut elected Robert Haddad as its president Friday. He is the first Arab-American to hold the post.
Haddad, a professor of Middle Eastern history and religion at Smith College in Massachusetts, succeeds Frederic Herter.
His election for a six-year term was made by the board of trustees in New York and is effective July 1.
Until a ban on U.S. citizens traveling to Lebanon is lifted, American administrators work out of the university’s New York offices. The university was founded in 1866.
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