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HASIB J. SABBAGH CHAIR

Sabbagh came from a Palestinian Christian family in Safed in Palestine , although he was born in Tiberias. He graduated from the Arab College of Jerusalem in , and in gained a civil engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. Sabbagh attended the Government Arab College of Jerusalem, which only the top public school students in Palestine attended.

It was headed by Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi and staffed by some of the finest teachers in the Arab world. It was an extremely regimented boarding school, and very high standards were set for the students. They were expected to study night and day, and were allowed only one day off for sports and other recreational activities. It was there that he established some of his long-term friendships.

In Sabbagh enrolled at the American University of Beirut, as a sophomore, in the college of engineering; attending AUB was to be one of the more significant experiences of his life. Not only was he being trained for his future profession, but he was also exposed to a rich and varied political life. Since that time, he developed a close relationship with Arafat and other members of the PLO leadership.

Sabbagh, Basel Aql, and Walid Khalidi became intermediaries between the PLO and the Lebanese government, trying to inform and explain the complexity of Lebanese confessional politics to Arafat and his colleagues and interceding on behalf of Palestinian refugees with the Lebanese authorities. It was the Lebanese civil war, however, that made Sabbagh an activist — an activist for peace and reconciliation between the various Lebanese parties and between the Palestinians and the Lebanese.

The Palestinian leadership had also understood the potential threat to Lebanese — Palestinian relations this incident portended. Abu Iyad asked Sabbagh to convince the Maronite patriarch, Antonius Butrus Khraysh, to condemn the killing publicly in order to preempt a further deterioration of the situation. Sabbagh, accompanied by a member of the Phalangist party, visited the patriarch, who agreed to make a statement on the radio that same evening condemning the killings.