Hind Hariri

{{Short description|Lebanese billionaire}} {{Family name hatnote|Rafic|al-Hariri|lang=Lebanese}} {{Infobox person | name = Hind Hariri | image = Hind_Hariri.jpg | image_size = | caption = Hind Hariri in Monaco, 2017 | birth_name = Hind Rafic al-Hariri | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}} | birth_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | occupation = | spouse = {{marriage|Mohammad Anas Al Karout|2009}} | children = 2 | parents = Rafic Hariri<br/>Nazik Hariri | relatives = Ayman Hariri (brother)<br/>Fahd Hariri (brother)<br/>Bahaa Hariri (half-brother)<br/>Saad Hariri (half-brother) }} {{Hariri family sidebar}}'''Hind Rafic al-Hariri''' ({{langx|ar|هند الحريري}}; born in 1984) is the youngest child of Lebanese businessman and politician Rafic Hariri. She graduated from the Lebanese American University in Beirut<ref name=Forbes>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Hind-Hariri_9IAT.html|title=The World's Billionaires: Under 40|first=Evan|last=Hessel|newspaper=Forbes|date=5 March 2008|accessdate=12 May 2008}}</ref> and campaigned for her half-brother Saad in Lebanese elections. In 2008, ''Forbes'' magazine listed her as "one of the world's youngest billionaires".<ref name=Forbes/>

In 2009, she married Mohammad Anas Al Karout. They had their first son, Mohammad in 2010, and in December 2011 they had their second son, Rafik.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

== Controversy around the Lycée Abdel Kader high school == In November 2018, Hind Hariri was reported to be behind the controversial decision to relocate the historic Lycée Abdel Kader School.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1142548/le-lycee-abdel-kader-pourrait-etre-detruit-et-relocalise-a-baabda.html|title=Le Lycée Abdel Kader pourrait être détruit et relocalisé à Baabda - Anne-Marie El-HAGE|last=El-HAGE|first=Anne-Marie|date=8 November 2018|work=L'Orient-Le Jour|access-date=9 November 2018|language=fr}}</ref> Hind Hariri allegedly put on sale the high school with the goal to construct a mall in its location. ''L'Orient Le Jour'', a Lebanese Francophone newspaper, reported<ref name=":0"/> that students, their parents and professors rejected the move in a protest in front of the school's main entrance.

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