Charles Habib Malik papers, 1888-1994 (bulk 1930-1982).
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Mixed materialsLanguage: English, Arabic, French, German Description: 112,800 items; 282 containers plus 1 classified, 1 closed, and 1 oversize; 114.8 linear feetSubject(s): - Baroody, William J., 1916-1980 -- Correspondence
- Bashīr, Anṭūniyūs -- Correspondence
- Bustani, Emile, -1963 -- Correspondence
- Chamoun, Camille, 1900-1987 -- Correspondence
- Harper, Ralph, 1915- -- Correspondence
- Hakim, George, 1913- -- Correspondence
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
- Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966
- Jumayyil, Bīyār, 1905- -- Correspondence
- Khayr, Nicola -- Correspondence
- Khūrī, Bishārah Khalīl, 1890-1964 -- Correspondence
- Knipp, Julian K. (Julian Knause), 1910-1990 -- Correspondence
- Lawrence, Frederic C. -- Correspondence
- Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 -- Correspondence
- Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 -- Correspondence
- Pharon, Henri -- Correspondence
- Rockefeller, David, 1915- -- Correspondence
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Correspondence
- Schomer, Howard, 1915- -- Correspondence
- Shakhashiri, Zekin -- Correspondence
- Shammas, Shukri Hanna -- Correspondence
- Shuster, George Nauman, 1894- -- Correspondence
- Stephanou, Evangelos -- Correspondence
- Tannous, Afif I., 1905-1998 -- Correspondence
- Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981 -- Correspondence
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
- American University of Beirut -- Faculty
- Campus Crusade for Christ International
- Harvard University -- Students
- Oxford Group
- Turkey. Ordu
- United Nations -- Officials and employees
- United Nations. Economic and Social Council
- United Nations. General Assembly
- United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- United Nations. Security Council
- Universität Freiburg im Breisgau -- Students
- World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association
- World Council of Churches
- Young Men's Christian Association (Cairo, Egypt)
- Asian-African Conference
- Communism
- Diplomatic and consular service, Lebanese -- United States
- Human rights
- Literature -- Translations
- Peace
- Philosophy -- Study and teaching
- Physicians -- Egypt -- Cairo
- Physicians -- Lebanon
- Religion
- Theology
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Turkey
- Jerusalem -- History -- Partition, 1948
- Lebanon -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1946-1975
- Middle East
- Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1948-
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Lebanon
- Malik family
- Diplomats
- Educators
- Philosophers
- Statesmen
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Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and other papers documenting Malik's teaching career at the American University of Beirut and public service as Lebanese minister to the United States, as Lebanese delegate to the United Nations and president of its General Assembly, and as Lebanon's foreign minister during a period of civil and political strife. United Nations files pertain to his tenure on the drafting committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and the workings of the Economic and Social Council, Security Council, and General Assembly. Also documents his studies in philosophy at Harvard University and Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, his interest in theology, and his involvement with the Asian-African Conference (Bandung, Indonesia), Oxford Group, Campus Crusade for Christ International, World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association, World Council of Churches, and Young Men's Christian Association in Cairo, Egypt. Subjects include communism, human rights, the international partition of Jerusalem, the Middle East, the Palestinian question, religion, the Soviet peace resolution of 1949, Alfred North Whitehead, and a plan promoted by Malik to translate the world's classics into all major languages. Includes lecture notes from courses conducted by Martin Heidegger, William Ernest Hocking, and Alfred North Whitehead. Family papers include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and patient records of Malik's father, Habib Malik, a physician in Lebanon and Cairo and with the Turkish ordu (army) during World War I.
Correspondents include William J. Baroody, Antony Bashir, Emile Bustani, Camille Chamoun, George Hakim, Ralph Harper, Bīyār Jumayyil (Pierre Gemayel), Bishārah Khalīl Khūrī, Nicola Khayr, Julian K. Knipp, Frederic C. Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Robinson Luce, Henri Pharon, David Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard Schomer, Zekin Shakhashiri, Shukri Hanna Shammas, George Nauman Shuster, Evangelos Stephanou, Afif I. Tannous, and Lowell Thomas.
Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Lebanese diplomat, statesman, philosopher, and educator.
Collection material primarily in English, partly in Arabic, with some French and German.
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