Rue John Kennedy is a street in Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

, Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

. The street, originally called Rue Perthuis, was renamed in honor of President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 on November 30, 1963. The street, which is located in the Ras Beirut

Ras Beirut

Ras Beirut is a luxurious residential neighborhood of Beirut. It is the most cosmopolitan and open-minded area of Beirut, where sizable populations of Christians, Muslims, and Druze coexist peacefully. It is known as the cultural and intellectual center of Beirut...

 district of the Lebanese capital, is a one-way street that runs east-west from Rue de Phénicie

Rue de Phénicie

Rue de Phénicie or Phoenicia Street is a street in Beirut, Lebanon. The street runs north-south from the Mediterranean uphill to where Rue John Kennedy meets Rue Omar Daouk, intersecting along the way Rue Ibn Sina, Rue London, and Rue Rustom Pacha....

, past Rue Nicolas Rebeiz and Rue Van Dyck

Rue Van Dyck

Rue Van Dyck is a street in Beirut, Lebanon. The street, which is located in the Ras Beirut district, was named after Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck, who was professor of pathology and internal medicine in the medical school at the American University of Beirut from 1857 until 1882. The street runs...

, and then curving to the south along the campus walls of the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

 until it reaches Rue Clémenceau

Rue Clémenceau

Rue Clemenceau is a commercial and residential street in Beirut, Lebanon. The street was named in honor of Georges Clemenceau who accepted the post of premier of France in 1917 during World War I....

where it ends. It is primarily a residential street with some small hotels.

In Literature

• Soujourns by Christina Pantoja-Hidalgo

"It is a flight of 77 stone steps, connecting our street to Rue John Kennedy, where Tony's office is."

• The Man in the Middle by Hugh Atkinson

"He pushed his bag before him into the cab and instructed the driver to take him to Rue John Kennedy."