Kamal Suleiman Salibi (2 May 1929 – 1 September 2011) was a prominent Lebanese

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 historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

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 (AUB) and the founding Director (later Honorary President) of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman

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, Jordan. He was a lifetime bachelor, who devoted his life to books.
Born to a Greek Orthodox family in Beirut, and later converting to Anglicanism

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, Salibi's family came from the Lebanese village of Bhamdoun

Bhamdoun

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 in French Mandatory Lebanon

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