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The University of Balamand (UOB; (アラビア語:جامعة البلمند)) is a private institution, secular in its policies and approach to education. It welcomes faculty, students, and staff from all faiths and national or ethnic origins.The university is located in the northern district of El-Koura, Lebanon. It was founded by the Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch in 1988. The university's main campus is adjacent to Balamand Monastery, but it has two other campuses in Beirut: One is in Sin el Fil, which houses the majority of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and the other neighbors Saint George Hospital in Achrafieh, which houses the faculty for medicine and medical sciences. It also has campuses in Akkar and Souk El Gharb Formerly conceived as just a project in the Koura District, it fused administratively with the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology to become a full-blown university. The University of Balamand was founded by the Patriarch through the concept of a Kouranian engineer called Elias Abi Shaheen, in which the concept formed between years 1983 and 1987, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War. The project started soon after Governmental Clearance in 1988. As of 2014, the implementation of its Master Plan at the mount of long heritage, Balamand, proceeds steadily. == Faculties == The university consists of 12 faculties, and they are as follows: Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (English and French) Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology (Arabic, English and Spanish) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Arabic, English and French) Faculty of Business and Management (English) School of Tourism and Hotel Management (English) Faculty of Sciences (English) Faculty of Engineering (English) Faculty of Health Sciences (English) Saint George's Postgraduate Medical Education (English) Faculty of Medicine & Medical Sciences (English) Issam M. Fares Institute of Technology (English and French) Faculty of Library and Information Studies(English) There are also further expansion plans, including: * Programs for arts and social sciences, business and management, engineering, health sciences for a new University of Balamand campus in Souk El Gharb. * A seven-story Balamand hospital in El-Koura (under construction) * A museum, containing some of the most important historical documents, old pictures, and precious artifacts of the Antiochian Patriarchate Heritage〔http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/index.php/museum〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Balamand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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