Early Life
Hariri was born on 1 November 1944 to a modest Sunni Muslim family, along with two siblings (brother, Shafic and sister Bahia) in the Lebanese port city of Sidon. Hariri attended elementary and secondary school in Sidon and pursued his business administration studies at the Beirut Arab University.
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