What You Might not Know about the Phoenicians
Date: Mon 17 March 2025
Time: 7 pm (Beirut Time GMT+2) - Please join as of 6:45
Speaker: Ziad Hayek (English)
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The Talk
We all know that the Phoenicians were great
mariners, that they were renowned traders, that they invented the alphabet, and
that they founded Carthage. Most people, however, know little else about them.
Our school history books dedicate barely a few pages to tell us about our
ancestors. They sandwich them between the Egyptians and the Hittites or
Assyrians and move on quickly to other civilizations. That the Phoenicians did
not leave annals carved in stone or clay tablets, that most of what we know
about them comes from rival or enemy sources, that modern history books refer
to them by different names, and that the Lebanese have politicized them like
they do everything else – has led to our society, and especially our young
generations, knowing very little about them and about what contributions they
have made to human civilization.
In this talk, we shall explore much that is not usually known about
those ancient ancestors of ours.
Ziad Hayek has 44 years of experience in investment
banking, corporate strategy, artificial intelligence, technology, public
policy, and public-private partnerships. He has lived and worked in Africa,
Europe, the Middle East, the US, and Latin America.
In 2019, he was nominated to be President of the World
Bank, and was most recently a candidate for the Presidency in Lebanon.
Hayek is currently President of the World Association of PPP Units &
Professionals, Head of Global Strategic Alliances at HyperCycle.ai,
and member of the Board of Trustees of USEK University.
Previously
he was a senior investment banker in New York and London. He has been a Member
of the Board of multiple companies, banks, NGOs, and tech startups. He was a
member of the US Council on Foreign Relations. Hayek has an MA in International
Management from UT Dallas. He has studied Middle East Affairs at Harvard, is
certified in artificial intelligence by IBM, and is registered as a CEO of a
financial institution by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Hayek is an
amateur of Semitic languages and history. He is a citizen of the US, the UK and
Lebanon, and is conversant with 11 languages.
