Toufik El Hibri

Sheikh Toufik El Hibri, (1869–1954) (Arabic: توفيق الهبري‎) was one of the primary founders of the Scout movement in Lebanon, as well as one of the earliest promoters of the Scouting movement in the Arab world, while much of the region was still within the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Beirut in 1869 AD (1286 H) in "Harat Eljoruah" (حارة الجورة) neighborhood of central Beirut. He died in Beirut on 7 October 1954.