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Manuel Younes (1921 - 2014; Arabic: مانويل يونس) was a Lebanese philanthropist, academic, philosopher and politician. He was the founder and Secretary General of the National Progressive Movement and candidate fo the Presidency of the Republic of Lebanon in 1976.

Manuel Younes was born in to a Maronite family in Tanourrine, one of seven children. Shortly after the end of the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon in which some 200,000 Christians and Druze were killed, Younes fled along with his family to Venezuela. He graduated from the University of Venezuela in 1940 with a Diploma of Economical and Social Sciences, and went on to complete a PhD in Philosophy and Literature in 1954, the last two years of which he was a professor of Oriental Studies and the Central University of Venezuela.

Shortly after his return to Lebanon, Younes founded the National Progressive Movement and begun his tenure in parliament in 1964. Throughout his political career, Younes gained a reputation for integrity, looking with disdain upon the practices of bribery and corruption which have long been a staple of Lebanon’s government. In 1965 Younes was appointed as Deputy Chairman of Rifbank, which has since been acquired by the National Bank of Kuwait. In opposition to the narrative of religious sectarianism, which gained large influence in the period preceding the Lebanese Civil War, Younes founded both the International Center of Studies on Tolerance and the International Center of Human Sciences, the latter in collaboration with UNESCO.