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'''Edmond Mikhaël [[Gharios]]''' ([[Arabic]]: '''إدمون مخايل غاريوس''') born in [[Chiyah]] (Karm ez Zeitoun) on [[February 18]], [[1958]] is the former Head of the Municipality of [[Chiyah]] for the last eleven years.
He is the son of late Mikhaël Selim [[Gharios]] and Salwa Lamaa Lamaa. He has five brothers (Assaad, Antoine, Nazih, Elie & Roger) and one sister (Roula). The [[Gharios]] family is one of the most socially and economically prominent families in [[Lebanon]] rooting back their ancestries to the [[Sheiks Chemor]] of Kfarhata. Their religion is [[maronite]] christian and they are of direct legitimate descendance of the Christian [[Ghassanids]]. Their hometown is [[Chiyah]], a predominantly Christian town located in the southern suburbs of the capital [[Beirut]] bordered by Haret-Hreik, Ghobeiry, Hadath and Furn-el-chebbak.
Edmond Gharios went to [http://www.ndj.edu.lb College Notre-Dame de Jamhour] for his primary and secondary studies where he graduated in [[1976]]. He joined [http://www.usj.edu.lb l’Université Saint-Joseph] of [[Beirut]] where he got a Bachelor in Business Administration in 1979. He then traveled to [[Paris]] and graduated form [[Paris Dauphine University]] in [[1980]] with an MBA.
In [[1981]] he married Lena Murr, and Elie and Nabil were born in 1984 and 1988 respectively. He joined the family business founded by his father late Mikhaël Salim [[Gharios]] and specialized in the production of Fruit Juices and Ice Creams where he worked, along with his brothers, to the development of this establishment to become one of the most prominent factories in Lebanon and compete local and foreign companies in the Lebanese and world markets.
In [[1998]], he ran for the post of head of the municipality of [[Chiyah]] and won with a clear majority. In [[2004]], he got elected again and this was due to the hard work he have always done to reconstruct and refurbish this region, that has been destroyed during the war, and transform it into a fully developed region economically and socially.
In December [[2008]], he resigned from his post of Head of the Municipality of [[Chiyah]] to prepare his electoral campaign to enter the [[Lebanese Parliament]] in June [[2009]].
[[Category:Lebanese politicians|Gharios, Edmond]]
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