Image: Tyre-Sour Lebanon JaafareyaHighSchool RomanDeckert02112018

Description: Tower and main entrance of the Jaafareya High School in the Southern Lebanese port city of Tyre. The institution was founded as a primary school for girls in 1937 by the Shia Imam Sayed Abdul Hussein Sharafeddine (1872-1957), who was a symbol of the resistance against the French occupation and chose the Imam Musa Sadr as his successor. Many of its teachers were refugees from Palestine. The pictured building is located in Jaafar Sharafeddine Street and overlooks the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Roman ruins in the Al Mina part of the ancient town with a view to the Mediterranean Sea. It was constructed in 1950 and called "Binaeit Almohager", meaning "Building of the Emigrants", since it was funded by locals who had emigrated to Western Africa as merchants. The founding director of the Secondary School in 1946, George Kenaan, was a Lebanese Christian. - This is according to Sayed Ali Sharafeddine, a grand-son of the founder and current director-general of the school, in an oral history interview at his office on July 4, 2019. Information still to be referenced with a print-published 2016 school chronicle awaiting translation from Arabic.
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