Jawad Boulos

Jawad Semaan Boulous (1 January 1900 – 16 September 1982) was a Lebanese Maronite lawyer, politician and historian. His work included Les peuples et les civilisations du Proche-Orient (five volumes) and L'histoire du Liban et des pays environnants.

Biography Boulous was born on 1 January 1900 in Zgharta, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Lebanon) to Semaan Boulos and Kattour Bacha. His paternal grandfather, Assad Boulos, was the leader of Youssef Bey Karam's army and led a rebellion against the Ottomans. His family, inclined towards politics and jurisprudence, were very devoted to their native land and owned vast properties in North Lebanon.

Boulos, at a young age, possessed exceptional gifts and the precocity of his mind led his parents to send him to the Collège Saint Joseph – Antoura, run by the Lazarist Fathers, to complete his secondary studies.

Death Boulos died on 16 September 1982 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Recognition On August 2015, a website bringing together Boulos' books, conferences, interviews, articles and various works to perpetuate his memory was created at the initiative of the Jouzour Simon Boulos Foundation and the former MP Jawad Boulos. Former Minister Charles Rizk paid tribute to Boulous as "one of the beacons not only of the history of Lebanon, but of the entire Middle East and the Arab world", and described his works as "precious references for many great Arab and international researchers."

Publications De 1600 à 64 avant J.-C. (1962) De la conquête romaine à l'expansion Arabo-Islamique (64 av. J.-C. – 640 ap. J.-C.) (1964) De l'expansion Arabo-Islamique à la conquête turco-ottomane (640–1517) (1964) Le proche Orient ottoman (1517–1918) et postottoman (1918–1930) (1968) Les peuples et les civilisations du Proche Orient (1968) L'histoire du Liban et des pays environnants (1970)