Dr. Zakaria Y. El Ghoul

Dr. Zakaria Y. El Ghoul is a Beirut-based attorney, certified arbitrator, university lecturer and published historian. His professional practice includes arbitration, dispute resolution and business legal advisory, alongside his academic work on modern Arab and Lebanese history.

Practice Areas

• Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
• Business Legal Advisory

Credentials

• Member of the Beirut Bar Association (since 2000)
• Certified Arbitrator — Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
• Certified Arbitrator — Geneva International Arbitration Center
• Co-founder and Partner — El Ghoul & Araji Law Firm
• University Lecturer — Modern Arab History and Modern Lebanese History, Beirut Arab University
• Founder — Beirut Cultural Salon Iqra (with Dr. Nadine Araji)
• Honored as Figure from the Land of the Cedars — Focus on Lebanon (2024)

Education

• State Doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History — Lebanese University, Doctoral Institute of Humanities — 2024
• Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History — Beirut Arab University — 2024
• Master’s Degree in Modern and Contemporary History — Lebanese University — 2019
• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LL.B.) — Beirut Arab University — 1998
• Certificate in Geopolitical Thought — AUST in cooperation with the Lebanese Army

Publications

• Beirut 1887–1918: Social, Health, and Financial Aspects (Dar Al-Arqam)
• Beirut in the Golden Age: Between the Rise of Ibrahim Pasha and Reforms of Sultan Abdulhamid II (Arab Renaissance Publishing House)

Insights

• After the Constitutional Council Ruling: What Does General Amnesty Law No. 70/2026 Mean for You?
• Constitutional Council Ruling on General Amnesty Law 70/2026
• ما يتعرض له حاكم مصرف لبنان من تهم فساد وغسيل أموال هو استكمال لما قد بدأ منذ أشهر في سويسرا
• اذاعة لبنان – الاذاعة اللبنانية. مقابلة مع المحامي د. زكريا الغول مع الاعلاميّة وداد حجّاج
• توتر كبير بين دمشق وبيروت. معلومات مدوية عن “قطيعة واشنطن” للجيش وصفقة “سلمان ترامب” ستهز العالم
• تطبيق قانون أصول المحاكمات الجزائية السبيل لإنهاء الجدل حول «العفو العام» في لبنان