List of Lebanese people (Sierra Leone)
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This is a list of notable individuals born in Sierra Leone
of Lebanese ancestry or people of Lebanese and Sierra Leonean dual nationality who live in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...
of Lebanese ancestry or people of Lebanese and Sierra Leonean dual nationality who live in Sierra Leone.
Athletes
- Faisal AntarFaisal AntarFaisal Antar – is a Lebanese retired football defender. He played for Tadamon Sour, Tripoli SC, Nejmeh and Al-Mabarrah in the Lebanese Premier League during 12 year career....
, soccer player - Roda AntarRoda AntarRoda Antar is a Lebanese football midfielder who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan in the Chinese Super League, and is captain of the Lebanon national team....
, soccer player - Ali HijaziAli HijaziAli Hijazi is a former Sierra Leonean international basketball player and the current manager of the Sierra Leone national basketball team. He has been the coach of the national basketball team since 2004...
, head coach of the Sierra Leone national basketball team - Nahim KhadiNahim KhadiNahim Khadi is a former Sierra Leonean international football star and the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. He was elected to the position in 2004, after defeating his closest rival, Joseph Samba Kelfala during the 2004 election...
, the current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. - Ibrahim Khalil TahiniIbrahim Khalil TahiniIbrahim Khalil Tahini is a Sierra Leonean international footballer of Lebanese descent. He currently plays as a forward for IK Oddevold in Sweden.-Early life:...
, soccer player
Businessmen
- Kassim BasmaKassim BasmaKassim Basma is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman and the second leading diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for around 38% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports. Basma was born in Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone. He was born into a family of Lebanese descent...
, diamond exporter - Hisham MackieHisham MackieHisham Mackie is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman. He is by far the biggest diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for 51% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports Mackie runs H.M Diamond, a company which accounted for 40% of all diamond exports in 2005.-Biography:Hisham...
, diamond exporter - Jamil Sahid MohamedJamil Sahid MohamedJamil Sahid Mohamed is a Sierra Leonean businessman who made millions of dollars in diamond trade. He was exiled from Sierra Leone twice amidst accusations of a coup plot in 1987 and later for war profiteering. Mohamed built his fortune smuggling diamonds out of Sierra Leone during the 1970s and...
, businessman and diamond exporter
Politicians
- Edward J. AkarEdward J. AkarEdward J. Akar is a Sierra Leonean economist and lawyer and former Sierra Leone's deputy finance minister. Akar had served as the president of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank and chairman of the Sierra Leone national football team, known as the Leone Stars from 2000-2004. He is the son of John...
- former Minister of Finance - Nabih BerriNabih BerriNabih Berri is the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.-Biography:He was born in Bo, Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut...
- Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament - Joe BlellJoe BlellJoseph "Joe" Blell is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as Sierra Leone's high commissioner to Nigeria from 2002 to 2007. He was also Sierra Leone's duputy Minister of Defense from 1996 until the government was ousted in a military coup in 1997...
- former Minster of Defense - Samir HassaniyehSamir HassaniyehSamir Hassaniyeh is a Sierra Leonean civil right activist. He is currently the chairman and president of the Sierra Leonean-Lebanese community in Sierra Leone. Hassaniyeh has spent most of his adult life fighting for Sierra Leonean-Lebanese right in Sierra Leone....
- activist - John SaadJohn SaadJohn Nicol Sahid Saad is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change . He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a...
- former Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development
Writers
- John AkarJohn AkarJohn Joseph Akar was a Sierra Leonean of Lebanese descent entertainer, writer, and diplomat. He served as Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States...
, writer and diplomat; composer of Sierra Leone's national anthem. - Farid Raymond-AnthonyFarid Raymond-AnthonyFarid Raymond-Anthony is a Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone to parents of Lebanese descent. Raymond-Anthony has written several novels, including Stories from Sierra Leone , and Farewell to the Queen.-References:...
, writer and author
See also
- Sierra Leonean-LebaneseSierra Leonean-Lebanese-Migration history:Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ottoman Empire; the first Lebanese arrived in Sierra Leone in 1893. The first groups were Maronite Christians, but beginning in 1903, Shia Muslim...
- List of Lebanese people
- List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)