Early Life and Education
Hrawi was born in Hawch Al Umara, near Zahlé, to a landowning Maronite family in the Bekaa Valley on 4 September 1926. He obtained a diploma in commerce at the Sagesse Institute in 1947. He enrolled at St Joseph University, Faculty of Law but did not complete his studies there.
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