This exhibit displays the history, planning, and initial function of the Main Gate building, the architect behind it, the evolution of the building over time, and its impact on and integration into the life of AUB.
"أنيسة روضة نجار: ذكريات إنجازات وتوصيات"
ناشطة لبنانية رائدة في مجال التنمية الريفية وحقوق المرأة. بدأت كواحدة من أوائل الصحفيات في العالم العربي، حيث حررت النشرة الإخبارية للمدرسة الأهلية في عام 1931، ولمعت كإحدى المؤسسات والعضوات البارزات لعدة جمعيات نسائية. مثّلت لبنان في المحافل والمؤتمرات الدولية لفترة طويلة.
"الشيخ عبد القادر قباني: سيرة مدينة في حياة رجل"
عبد القادر أفندي القباني هو رئيس بلدية بيروت ومؤسس وصاحب جريدة ثمرات الفنون البيروتية سنة 1885م ..أحد مؤسسي جمعية المقاصد الخيرية الاجتماعية عام 1877م واسس مع عمر باشا المحمد ومحمد رشيد رضا جمعية في طرابلس تعني بتعليم الفقراء، وعين عضوا في محكمة بيروت الاستئنافية بالاضافة لانتخابه رئيسا لمجلسها البلدي.
Student Union Gazette, 1913-1932
Our University Archives hold many significant collections, perhaps most noteworthy of which are the following: early Presidential papers, documenting the early founding of the Syrian Protestant College in 1866, and the Edwin Lewis crisis in 1882; records of early Missionaries' educational activities in the region (e.g. the Near East College Association papers; a number of noteworthy 19th c. and early 20th c. students' publications documenting the socio-political climate in the area, e.g. Zahrat al-kullīyah’, al-mabdaʼ al-sahīh, Kodak, al Urwat-al-Wuthqa, as well as al-Kulliyah magazine , 1910-2014, documenting the AUB student uprising in 1950, in addition to Outlook, 1949-present, documenting the students' uprising in 1973; papers of significant intellectual Arab figures, e.g. Jirji Zaydan, Philip Hitti, and Constantine Zurayk and women activists like Zahiya Kaddoura, Anisa Rawda Najar, Emilie Fares Ibrahim and Ni’mat Baydoun Kronfol, among others.
Holdings within the University Archives are subsumed under the following categories:
The University Archives Program document, mandated by the AUB President, approves the Archives’ existence and confers to it the necessary authority to accomplish its mission. It lists all items accepted by the Archives for deposit, and clarifies procedures for depositing those items within the Archives.
Please, do consider contacting us to transfer your AUB historic institutional documents to our Archives, in order to preserve those documents, and safeguard AUB's history.
Please email us at: asc@aub.edu.lb
1871 المطبعة الأميركية
The American Mission Press moved to Beirut from Malta in 1834, it had its own movable letter block print design (Arabic and English). The collection includes wooden letter blocks, as well as the Press early documents.
"Dr. Constantine Zurayk: Knowledge at the Service of Life"
The documents, photos and letters in this exhibit provide a glimpse onto the multi-faceted personality and rich life that Dr. Zurayk led.
"The Syrian Protestant College and the Great War: 1914-1918"
Th photos, letters, reports, diaries, documents, etc., in this exhibit bear witness to the increasingly influential role that SPC, and AUB, were destined to play in the region.
"Comics: A Very Serious Matter!"
Comics is a rich subject of study, one worthy of studying across disciplines, and from a variety of perspectives.