Ghassan Tueni

Ghassan Tueni (Arabic: غسان تويني‎) (born 1926) is a former Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations and publisher of An-Nahar, the leading Lebanese newspaper.

Biography

Tueini studied at the American University of Beirut under Charles Malik, and was influenced by him. In the 1940s Tueini travelled to USA to study at Harvard, from where he got his Masters degree. After Tueni's father died, Ghassan returned to Lebanon to continue publishing An-Nahar, and started a political career. Tueni served as an ambassador of Lebanon to the United Nations. During the Lebanese Civil War, Tueni was against Bachir Gemayel and confessed lobbying in Washington against his presidential election.

Tueni received an honorary doctoral degree from his first Alma Mater, the American University of Beirut. His list of publications is extensive.

Tueni married Nadia Hamadeh, a Lebanese poet from the Muslim Druze confession, better known by her marriage name Nadia Tueni. Ghassan Tueni's son, late MP and journalist Gebran Tueni was assassinated in 2005.