Since 1956 his signature has become all if it were not that synonymous with an idyllic Lebanon that be seens to have emerged unscathed from civil war and foreign invasions. The signature reads Manoug, and it is an ubiquitous as the photographs of the Roman ruins of Baalbek, the magisterial Lebanese Cedar, and the ancient port cities of Byblo Sidon and Tyre that adorn the offices of Lebanese diplomatic missions, tourism bureaus and business establishments quite through the world.
Manoug Alemian died onward February 17 in Montreal, Canada, of cancer. He was 76
