Editing Tyre, Lebanon (section)

== Education ==
[[File:TyreSour JafariyaSchool RomanDeckert11072019.jpg|thumb|The Jafariya School (2019)]]
[[File:Islamic university building in Tyre.jpg|thumb|The IUL (2009)]]

There are many universities in Lebanon. 

The Jafariya School was founded in 1938 by Imam Abdul Hussein Sharafeddin.<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1521/|title=Political awareness of the Shi'ites in Lebanon: the role of Sayyid 'Abd al-Husain Sharaf al-Din and Sayyid Musa al-Sadr|last=Gharbieh|first=Hussein M.|publisher=Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham|year=1996|location=Durham|format=PDF|type=Doctoral}}</ref> It soon expanded thanks mainly to donations from rich émigrés and thus was upgraded in 1946 to be a Secondary School, the first in Southern Lebanon (see above). It has remained one of the main schools in Tyre ever since.<ref name="Leichtman-2015">{{Cite book|title=Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal|last=Leichtman|first=Mara|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0253015990|location=Bloomington and Indianapolis|pages=26, 31, 51, 54, 86, 157}}</ref>

An important role in the Tyrian education landscape is played by the charity organisation of the vanished Imam [[Musa al-Sadr]], which has been headed since his disappearance in 1978 by his sister [[Rabab al-Sadr]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Norton|first=Augustus Richard|title=Hezbollah: A Short History|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0691160818|location=Princeton and Oxford|pages=109}}</ref> While the foundation operates in various parts of the country, its main base is a compound on the southern entry of the Tyre peninsula close to the sea. A major focus is its [[Orphanage]]s, but it also runs adult educational and [[Vocational education|vocational training]] programmes, especially for young women, in addition to health and development projects.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Marusek|first=Sarah|title=Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon|publisher=Pluto Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0745399935|location=London|pages=127–150}}</ref>

Musa Sadr also laid the groundwork for establishing the Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL) which was finally licensed in 1996 and opened a branch on the seafront,in Tyre. Its board of trustees is dominated by representatives of the Supreme Shiite Council, founded by Sadr in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iul.edu.lb/page/?id=309|title=The vision of the University|date=n.d.|website=Islamic University of Lebanon|access-date=29 February 2020|archive-date=19 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219130048/http://www.iul.edu.lb/page/?id=309|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Lebanese Evangelical School in Tyre with a history of more than 150 years is arguably the largest school in town. [[Collège Élite (Tyre)|Collège Élite]], a French international school opened in 1996, is another one of a host of private schools in Tyre. The Cadmous College - a pre-kindergarten to grade 12 school, run by the Maronite missionaries - has about 10% Christian and 90% Muslim pupils.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abi Raad|first=Doreen|date=29 May 2020|title=Lebanon's 'Pillar' of Catholic Education at Risk of Collapsing|url=https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/lebanons-pillar-of-catholic-education-at-risk-of-collapsing|access-date=3 June 2020|website=National Catholic Register}}</ref>

In August 2019, the 17-year-old Ismail Ajjawi – a Palestinian resident of Tyre and graduate of the UNRWA '[[Deir Yassin]]' High School in the [[El-Buss refugee camp]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/harvard-bound-ismail-ajjawi-inspiration-fellow-unrwa-students|title=Harvard-bound Ismail Ajjawi an inspiration to fellow UNRWA students|date=30 August 2019|website=United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> – made global headlines when he scored top-results to earn a scholarship to study at [[Harvard University|Harvard]], but was [[Deportation|deported]] upon arrival in [[Boston]] despite valid visa.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshman-deported/|title=Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked|last1=Avi-Yonah|first1=Shera S.|date=27 August 2019|work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=29 October 2019|last2=Franklin|first2=Delano R.}}</ref> He was readmitted ten days later to start his studies in time.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/|title=Freshman Previously Denies Entry to the United States Arrives at Harvard|date=3 September 2019|work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>