With a legal and economic culture, a graduate in planning from Irfed, JOSEPH CHAMI was notably editorial secretary of Le Jour then of L’Orient-Le Jour and editor-in-chief of Magazine. Founder of the Fiches du Monde Arabe (FMA), he was press adviser in Baabda under the mandate of President Amine Gemayel, before occupying the position of director of the Arab world service of AFP until 1999. He has devoted himself since to the construction of the Lebanon Memorial.