Fuad Chehab (Arabic: فؤاد شهاب‎; also transliterated Fouad Shihab; 19 March 1902 — 25 April 1973) was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964. Chehab's mandate was one of the most distinguished in Lebanon's history, due to the important reforms and large scale social development projects that he introduced and initiated, bringing harmony and prosperity to the country, and a mission to build the institutions of the modern state.