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AUB announces the conferring of three Doctor of Humane Letters
degrees on the occasion of the University's 138th Commencement,
June 30, 2007. Recipients this year are Syrian-Lebanese poet
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said), Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine,
and Middle Eastern historian André Raymond.
Adonis is known not only as an innovative poet, the forerunner
of poetic modernism in the Arab world, but also as literary
critic, essayist, editor of anthologies, and a translator. Born
and raised in Syria, the poet assumed the name Adonis at 17
years of age. He became a Lebanese citizen in 1961 and currently
lives in Paris. The author of many books of poetry, several
of which have been translated into English, Adonis has been
several times nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature.
Youssef Chahine, who has been active in the Egyptian film industry
since 1950, began his prodigious output that year with Baba
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