Bahia Hariri is married to Mustafa Hariri ( who is also her cousin ) and has 4 children: Nader, Ghena, Ahmad and Ola.

The original investment in Al Arabiya was $ 300 million by the Middle East Broadcasting Center ( MBC ), Lebanon's Hariri Group, and other investors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf states.

On 14 February 2005, Al Arabiya was the first news satellite channel to air news of the assassination of Rafik Hariri, who was one of its early investors.

After the assassination of the Lebanese prime-minister Rafik Al Hariri, Walid Jumblatt preventively protected his children by sending them to France.

* Nazek Al Hariri, Board Member

* Rafic Hariri ( 1944 – 2005 ), Lebanese business tycoon and Lebanese Prime Minister ( 1992 – 1998 ; 2000 – 2004 )

He was accused of corruption and mismanagement after Hariri's ousting in 1998, in what was mainly viewed as a conflict between Hariri and Syria, and a Syrian-orchestrated move to keep him in line.

Eight months after Syria withdrew from Lebanon under intense domestic and international outrage over the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri the UN investigation has yet to be completed.

Syrian forces have been accused of involvement in that murder, as well as continued meddling in Lebanese affairs, and an international investigation into the Hariri killing and several subsequent bomb attacks has been launched by the UN.

Among his other works are his edition of Hariri ( 1822 ), with a selected Arabic commentary, and of the Alfiya ( 1833 ), and his Calila et Dimna ( 1816 ), the Arabic version of that famous collection of Buddhist animal tales which has been in various forms one of the most popular books of the world.

Since 1992, Hariri has been member of the board of trustees of the Lebanese American University.

Since the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005, he has been a prominent participant in the Cedar Revolution protests that have swept Beirut, calling for the total withdrawal of all Syrian troops from Lebanese territory, the resignation of the pro-Syrian government, and the holding of free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections.

Hariri was prime minister from 9 November 2009 until the collapse of his cabinet on 12 January 2011 and has also been the leader of the Movement of the Future party since 2005.

Bahia Hariri was born in Sidon, located in the Southern governorate in Lebanon, in 1952.

* Bahaa Hariri ( born 1966 ), Lebanese businessman ; eldest son of Rafic Hariri

* Saad Hariri ( born 1970 ), Lebanese politician and Lebanese Prime Minister ( 2009 – 2011 ; second son of Rafic Hariri )

* Fawzi Hariri ( born 1958 ), Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals ( since 2006 )

Saad Hariri was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 18 April 1970, and is the son of Rafiq Hariri and his first wife Nidal Al-Bustani, an Iraqi.

* Mari ( Tell Hariri ) Suggestion to have Mari ( Tell Hariri ) recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site, in 1999.

On October 20, 2004, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned ; the next day former Prime Minister and loyal supporter of Syria Omar Karami was appointed Prime Minister.

It was the history, the realia of the literature, that always interested him ; he did not care for Arabic poetry as such, and the then much praised Hariri seemed to him a grammatical pedant.

* Bahia Hariri, Lebanese politician ; sister of Saed Hariri

At least a dozen people -- including Hariri and several of his bodyguards -- were killed instantly ; the final death toll rose to 21.

Despite being seated beside Hariri when the explosion occurred, Fleihan lived through the attack ; however, severe burns covered over 95 % of his body.

In Mount Lebanon the Hariri List won 17 seats, as did the Aoun Alliance, made up of Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement and two smaller parties ; Hezbollah won one.

He blessed in 2001 the establishment of Christian Qornet Shehwan Gathering opposed to the Syrian role and in the aftermath of the Hariri assassination he restated his opposition to Syria's predominant role in Lebanese politics and the political changes following Syrian withdrawal appear to have largely restored his previous position as the main spokesperson for his community.

* Franso Hariri ( 1937 – 2001 ), Iraqi politician

In 2001 his party was reorganized and retied its alliances with the other progressive Lebanese parties, but since the intensification of the political crisis in the Lebanon, further to the murder of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, numerous rumors announce his return in the country.

On December 30, 2005 Syria's former Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, said that " Hariri received many threats " from Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad.

* 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1, 000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.

On February 14, 2005, former Prime Minister Hariri was assassinated in a car-bomb attack which killed 21 and wounded 100.

With the return of Michel Aoun, the climate was right to try to heal wounds to help unite the country after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005.

In 2005, Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon after the assassination of Lebanese Sunni Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005.

Most recently, on 1 March 2009, a U. N. tribunal to investigate and prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened in the former headquarters of the Netherlands General Intelligence Agency in Leidschendam, a town within the greater The Hague area.

* Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005, when explosives equivalent to around 1, 000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut.

* Many Lebanese militants continue to use car bombs against domestic opponents, a notable example being the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the country's former Prime Minister, on February 14, 2005.

In March 2005 after the Rafik Hariri assassination, the Kataeb took part in an anti-Syrian presence demonstration, commonly known as the Cedar Revolution.

On February 20, 2005, Sabri appeared on Al-Majd Saudi Arabian satellite TV to comment on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister.

Ghattas Khoury declared on May 2005 that he would withdraw from the Beirut elections for the sole Maronite seat, enabling Saad Hariri to include Solange Gemayel on his list.

Saad Hariri announced on 16 May 2005 that Gemayel would contest the election as a member of a multiconfessional electoral ticket he had compiled.

On 14 February 2005, her brother, Rafik Hariri, was assassinated.

* " Bomb under road may have killed Hariri " February 19, 2005 Associated Press article citing Jaber, hosted by MSNBC

He was sworn in again on 21 October 2004 and resigned on 28 February 2005, amid protests following the murder of the previous prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

After the murder of the previous Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, in 2005, members of the opposition blamed Syria for the assassination, and demanded Syria withdraw its troops and intelligence personnel from Lebanon, something Karami's pro-Syrian government opposed.

The Cedar Revolution ( Arabic: ثورة الأرز-thawrat al-arz ) or Independence Intifada ( Arabic: انتفاضة الاستقلال-intifāḍat al-istiqlāl ) was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon ( especially in the capital Beirut ) triggered by the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.

The name " Cedar Revolution " is a term that was coined by the U. S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky in a news conference, The demonstrators fell silent at exactly 12: 55 PM, the time of the explosion that killed Hariri on Feb. 14, 2005.

In the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005, however, the Qornet Shehwan escalated its campaign to call for the immediate withdrawal of Syrian military and intelligence forces from Lebanon, and for fresh parliamentary and presidential elections to be held, free from foreign interference.

The general election held in 2005, however, resulted in a clear majority ( 72 seats out of 128 ) being won by the alliance led by Saad Hariri ( son of murdered former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri ); half of these were held by Hariri's own Current for the Future.