Al Bustan Hotel is a hotel located in Beirut , Lebanon which opened in 1967.
6-510: In 1962, Lebanese entrepreneur Emile Bustani purchased the 1930 hotel called the Grand Hotel, where he and his wife used to go dancing before they married in the 1930s. He had bought the building with the intention of developing it. In order for redevelopment to happen, they needed to demolish the old hotel. Construction for the new hotel started in 1962. Emile died before its completion. However, his wife and daughter Myrna Bustani continued
12-629: A Graduate student he received his MA in Astro-Physics by 1932. A year later in 1933, he obtained a BS in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA. Back in Beirut after MIT, Bustani worked for a time with the Iraq Petroleum Company , but soon founded his own Contracting and Trading Company, CAT – a company involved in laying and constructing oil pipelines, building roads and constructing cities throughout
18-610: The Mediterranean Sea . It features an art collection of antiquities, sculpture, paintings, watercolors and prints, in the lounges and bedrooms. It has 117 rooms, 21 suites, an outdoor pool, a gym, a restaurant and an auditorium. The International Al Bustan Festival of Music and the Arts takes place at the hotel annually, since 1994. Myrna Bustani is the founder of the festival. Emile Bustani Emile Morched Bustani ( Arabic : إميل مرشد البستاني) (1907- March 15, 1963)
24-537: The Middle East. Bustani was elected a Member of Parliament in Lebanon in 1951, an office he held until his death in 1963. In 1962, he purchased the 1930 hotel called the Grand Hotel, where he and his wife used to go dancing before they married in the 1930s. He had bought the building with the intention of developing it. In order for redevelopment to happen, they needed to demolish the old hotel. Construction for
30-411: The development of the project. By 1967, the hotel was officially completed and ready for its grand opening. Bustani's wife chose the name "Al Bustan" (The Garden) – it was the first hotel of the time to take an Arabic name, when Beirut's hotels all took European names. The Al Bustan would become an important Lebanese landmark. The hotel is located on the top of Beit Mery hill, overlooking Beirut and
36-785: Was a Lebanese entrepreneur, philanthropist and politician. Bustani was born in 1907 in Dibbiyeh – Chouf . After he lost his father at age of six, Bustani was raised by American missionaries at the Gerard Institute in Sidon – South Lebanon. Later, Bustani received help from a wealthy Lebanese businessman to study engineering at the American University of Beirut , from where he received a BS in that field by 1929. In 1930, he rejoined AUB as an instructor in Physics and as
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