SABIS is an international education management organization from Lebanon.
10-550: The story of SABIS dates back to 1886 when the International School of Choueifat was founded in the village of Choueifat , a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon . What started as a school for girls founded by the Reverend Tanios Saad and Ms. Louisa Proctor soon started accepting boys as well. The International School of Choueifat began an expansion program outside Lebanon in the mid-1970s. So far the biggest building of SABIS
20-690: A K–12 international school in Aljada, Sharjah’s largest lifestyle megaproject. SABIS also operates a number of schools in countries including Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Germany . It also operated a school in Bath, UK, which closed in 2019. In 2015, SABIS opened a school in Azerbaijan. In Sub-Saharan Africa, SABIS is in partnership with Africa Crest Education (ACE) Holdings. In Latin America, SABIS announced its plans to tap into
30-607: Is in Dreamland, Baku, Azerbaijan . Expansion of the network outside of Lebanon began in the mid-1970s by Alaa Kamal. In 1976, SABIS opened its first school outside of Lebanon in Sharjah , in the UAE In the UAE, the organization currently operates The International Schools of Choueifat and SABIS International Schools, located in six of the emirates. In 2019, SABIS announced a deal with Arada to launch
40-548: The Abu Dhabi Yas Island campus. Choueifat Choueifat ( Arabic : شويفات , also transliterated Shuwayfat ) is one of the biggest and most important cities in southeast of Beirut in Lebanon . The city is a Druze enclave that lies on the eastern side of Beirut's airport. The local population of the city is made up of mostly Druze and Christians minority, but in the last 25 years, many Beirutis have moved in to escape
50-913: The Brazilian market in 2018, with a $ 50 million investment project. The SABIS International School Campinas – Costa Verde in Panama opened its doors in September 2017. SABIS operates six schools in the United States: five public charter schools (in Arizona , Massachusetts , and Michigan ) and one private school in Minnesota . In 2013, SABIS started educating students at the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell (Collegiate), in Lowell, Massachusetts . In November 2023,
60-762: The capital's high rents, while many southerners have found Choueifat a good alternative to the crowded southern suburb known as Dahieh . Choueifat is the home city of the Lebanese Prince Talal Arslan and to other members of the Arslan family . The first mayor of Choueifat was Fareed Nabhan Choukier in 1893. Its current mayor as of 2018 is Ziad Haidar. The town is home to 150 factories, making it one of Lebanon's largest industrial areas. Choueifat used to be well known for its olive season. A vast majority of its land used to be covered with olive trees and used to be referred to as "the desert of Choueifat". This resource
70-451: The flagship campus in Abu Dhabi was demolished in order to be upgraded. The mainland Abu Dhabi branch had been operating on the same plot since 1979 and has graduated several notable alumni in both the UAE public and private sectors as well as foreign expatriates who have gone on to forge significant international careers in various fields. Existing students are being temporarily accommodated at
80-495: The housing market of Sahra Choueifat, managed to acquire better housing and tenure rights for those who were displaced, but gave rise to religious pockets within a religiously sensitive area. Moreover, the use of legal tools by contesting groups such as voting, zoning, and manipulation of public services in Sahra Choueifat, is resulting in the division of space in a political manner; define a group’s space and excluding others. This
90-462: The suburbs) gave rise to three findings: First, the monetary compensation received by displaced squatters after the war was, in theory, adequate to allow them to get legal housing in Beirut; however the implementation was unstable and led the families to bind their resources to vacant apartments before they could move to them. Second, political parties' intervention in the phase of compensation, as well as in
100-465: Was one of the major sources of income for the villagers, as the olives were sold to be eaten or converted into oil and soap. The most renowned education institute in the town is the International School of Choueifat . A 2005 MIT study by Hiba Bou Akar which analyzed the access to cheap housing by Shiites who had lived through two displacement (Lebanese civil war, and post-1992 reconstruction of
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