User:Ghaylan de Damas/Mounir Baalbaki

Mounir Baalbaki (1918, 1999) is the author of Al-Mawrid Dictionary. He was born in 1918 in Beirut, with his origins dating back to Baalbak. He established Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Malayeen in 1945. He went in a coma in the fall of 1997 which persisted until he passed away in 1999.

Education
Mounir Baalbaki graduated from the American University of Bierut in 1938, with a B.A. in Arabic literature and Islamic history. He did not specialize in English literature despite being among prominent translators of that literature. He then moved to Iraq to pursue his graduate studies.