Birth: 1/1/1923 Death:15/10/2014
Born in Safad in 1923 to a Greek Orthodox Christian family; studied Civil Engineering at the AUB, graduating in 1946; returned to Safad and started his own building company; fled to Lebanon in the course of the 1948 Nakba; worked as an engineer in various projects, incl. an airport in Tripoli, Lebanon, in 1950 and a yard to store oil pipes for Iraq Petroleum Co. in Homs, Syria, in 1951; co-founded with his cousin of Hasib Sabbagh and Kamel Abdul Rahman the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) in Beirut in 1952 (relocated to Athens during the civil war in 1975), which soon after was subcontracted by the San Francisco-based Bechtel Group Inc., to help build an oil refinery in Aden; served as CCC Pres. since; also serves as Chairman of the Arab Monetary Fund Governors, as Chairman of the Palestinian Businessmen Organization and the Palestine Electrical Company; Board of Trustees member of the IPS in Beirut and of the Parish of Greek Orthodox of Europe; Honorary member of the Sakakini Center in Ramallah; spent millions of dollars for development projects in Palestine, incl. a US$1 million donation to Al-Quds University in 2003 for the establishment of the state-of-the-art Said Khoury Information Technology Center of Excellence (SKITCE), which opened in Feb. 2004.
