Sinno family

The Sinno Family members mainly reside in the Lebanese capital Beirut as well as its suburbs such as Aramoun, Bchamoun, Doha, Naama and Choueifat.

The reputation of commitment to the religion and to the Sunna (doctrine) of the Prophet, made other residents of the city visit them for the blessing they would get.

Therefore, historians usually correct the spelling from Sinno to Sunno, in line with the reasons above to avoid confusion with any other Arabic words such as “tooth” or “age”.

This conflict limited the Board's public activities to minor formal visits such as the one paid to the President of the Republic Sheikh Bechara El Khoury and Prime Minister Riad as-Solh to ask for their intervention to free Rasheed Ameen Sinno (a Family Board Member in 1937), Media Manager in Sanaa, who was arrested and accused of belonging to the Free Front in the Kingdom of Yemen.

This was the group that executed an armed coup which lead to the assassination of the President, Imam Yehya Bin Hameeduddeen in 1948.

On the Day of Eid Al Fitr of the same year, another meeting was held in the residence of Baheej Hassan Sinno.

In 1998, amendments to the Charter were ratified, among which was increasing the number of Board members to 24, and changing the official name of the association to the “Sinno Family League”.