Stories have it that Hanna 'Hawwa' el-Hajj, was son to a family of seven brothers and a sister named Hawwa (Arabic for Eve), hence the surname.
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It was built in 273 AD, during the reign of Roman emperor Aurelian and was also used as a way station for the Roman military in Lebanon
The first campus, which opened in 1973, is located in Kafarshima, the second in Mansourieh.