Jawdat haydar biography of albert

Jawdat Haydar’s Biography

Jawdat R. Haydar was born in Baalbeck on 23rd April 1905. He went to the Evangelical School in Baalbeck and, in 1918, completed his first year at AUB which was known at that time as the Syrian Protestant College.

Jawdat haydar biography of albert

He traveled to France and chose agriculture as a major at the Lycée du Park in Lyon, and then traveled to the United States to pursue his higher education at AM&C College. In 1925, he graduated with a BS in Education from North Texas State University.

In 1928, Jawdat Haydar returned to Lebanon and worked in education becoming a school headmaster at Aley National College in Lebanon.

Then he moved to Palestine where he was appointed as the director of El Najah College in Nablus and later was appointed a member of the board of the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education. In 1932, he returned to Lebanon and joined the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) in Tripoli where he spent 28 years in different senior posi