1919
Michel Chiha returns to Lebanon
After a three-year exile in Egypt, Michel Chiha returned to Beirut at the end of the Great War.
He takes over the direction of the Pharaon and Chiha Bank at one of the most difficult times in his country’s history. Michel’s father Antoine passed away in 1903 having co-founded the Bank in 1876. A nationwide famine had decimated a quarter of the population and one-fourth of the country’s homes were in ruins.
