AUB's Alumni and the UN: The San Francisco Conference, 1945
Forty-six nations, including the four sponsors, were originally invited to the San Francisco Conference: nations which had declared war on Germany and Japan and had subscribed to the United Nations Declaration. AUB had 19 representatives 5 of whom signed the charter.
These were Ghassem Ghani, from Iran; Fadhil Jamali, Abdul Jabbbar Chalabi, Darwish al Haidari, Abdul Majid Abbas, Majid Khaddouri, Salih Mahdi Haidar, Hashim Jawad and Mohammad Ibrahim Adham from Iraq; Charles H. Malek, Subhi Mahmasani and Angela Jurdak Khoury from Lebanon; Ahmad Abdul Jabbar from Saudi Arabia; Faris aI-Khoury, Nairn al-Antaki, Nazam al-Koudsi, Farid Zainiddine, Raja F. Hawrani and Toufic Huneidi from Syria.
AUB Bulletin, February 1996, p. 43
Jamali (Iraq), Malek (Lebanon), al-Khoury, al-Antaki and al-Koudsi (Syria) were the signatories of the UN Charter for their counties.
Once, after a visit to the AUB Campus, 1962, US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy stated: More world leaders have been educated at the American University of Beirut than any other institution I can think of—even Harvard. There were more graduates of the American University of Beirut at the establishment of the United Nations than from any other institution.
AUB Bulletin, February 1996, p. 43
