Born in Beirut in 1926 and educated at Harvard University, he returned to Lebanon in 1948 in order to carry on the work of his father Gebrane Tueni running the "An-Nahar" daily - an independent newspaper in Arabic founded by him in 1933.
1950. gadā viņš piedalījās pirmās Arābu Tieslietu, politisko zinātņu un ekonomikas universitātes dibināšanā.