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Osmane Mounif AIDI Foundation for Heritage, Culture and Sciences volunteered to construct the Faculty of Science and Technology in Balamand University, at a cost of one million US Dollars in 1990, to become a part of this important scientific edifice in Tripoli, the capital of north Lebanon .
The inauguration ceremony was attended by his Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius 4th, patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient for the Roman Orthodoxes, along with many ministers, deputies in the parliament, foreign ambassadors, and different scientific, educational, cultural and media responsibles .

The attendants listened to the speeches of his Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius the President of the University then Mr. Ghassane Tweini and Eng. Dr. Osmane Mounif AIDI.
Patriarch Ignatius 4th decorated Eng. Dr. Osmane AIDI with a high distinction ecclesiastic medal : that of St. Peter and St. Paul, the founders of the Antioch Holy See of the rank of high office.
 

A medal in honor of Eng. Dr. Osmane AIDI When he received the medal, Dr. Osmane AIDI said addressing himself to his Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius 4th : I am honored to be decorated with this medal which I am proud of, and to be blessed by his Beatitude. What I have done is the least of what one can do as a contribution to such a project. Words cannot express what goes in my mind because this is a big day for me, and I am proud of it.

Balamand University an opinion of Ghassane Tweini
In the inauguration ceremony of AIDI building which was decided to become the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in the University of Balamand, Professor Ghassane Tweini referred to the symbols which this college presents :
First of all it  is a faculty of sciences in a university that set out from a theological institute, secondly it is a gift from a Muslim who believes in God to a university which is considered as an orthodox participation in the national education which the Greek church wanted to be, generation after generation,  laic that unites not one that divides, it is also a reviving of the memory of a national educational school, next to the Omayyade mosque in Damascus in a street that has the name of Ahmad Mounif AIDI, the National Scientific College of Damascus.