Editing Lebanon (section)

=== Science and technology ===
[[File:USJ Campus.jpg|thumb|[[Saint Joseph University of Beirut]]'s Campus of Innovation and Sports on Damascus Street, [[Beirut]]]]
Lebanon was ranked 94th in the [[Global Innovation Index]] in 2024, down from 88th in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Global Innovation Index 2024 : Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship |url=https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/global-innovation-index-2024/en/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=www.wipo.int |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Global Innovation Index 2019|url=https://www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index/en/2019/index.html|access-date=2 September 2021|website=www.wipo.int|language=en|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902101818/https://www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index/en/2019/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=28 October 2013|title=Global Innovation Index|url=https://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/global-innovation-index-2930|access-date=2 September 2021|website=INSEAD Knowledge|language=en|archive-date=2 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902101622/https://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/global-innovation-index-2930|url-status=dead}}</ref> Notable scientists from Lebanon include [[Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah]], [[Rammal Rammal]], and [[Edgar Choueiri]].<ref>{{cite web|last=ago·|first=M. Srour·People·2 years|date=15 March 2019|title=6 Lebanese Geniuses That Make Us Proud|url=https://www.the961.com/6-lebanese-geniuses-that-make-us-proud/|access-date=14 October 2020|website=The961|language=en-US|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018193018/https://www.the961.com/6-lebanese-geniuses-that-make-us-proud/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=5 January 2009|title=Rammal Award attribution by the Euroscience Foundation|url=http://www.euroscience.org/RAMMAL/rammal.htm|access-date=14 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105212227/http://www.euroscience.org/RAMMAL/rammal.htm|archive-date=5 January 2009}}</ref>

In 1960, a science club from a university in Beirut started a Lebanese space program called "[[the Lebanese Rocket Society]]". They achieved great success until 1966 where the program was stopped because of both war and external pressure.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hooper|first=Richard|date=14 November 2013|title=Lebanon's forgotten space programme|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24735423|access-date=14 October 2020|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018193017/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24735423|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Bizarre Tale of the Middle East's First Space Program|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bizarre-tale-middle-easts-first-space-program-180960808/|access-date=14 October 2020|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en|archive-date=8 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208131753/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bizarre-tale-middle-easts-first-space-program-180960808/|url-status=live}}</ref>