21 Facts About Monzer Hourani

Monzer Hourani is a Lebanese-American engineer and inventor.

Monzer Hourani is the founder and president of Medistar, a company specializing in healthcare real estate development.

Monzer Hourani moved to the US in 1965 where he obtained bachelor degrees in architecture and architectural engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Monzer Hourani founded an engineering firm which he sold in the early 1980s to support his family in Lebanon during the 1982 Lebanese civil war.

Monzer Hourani is known for the invention of the Integrated Viral Protection Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System launched in August 2020, a HEPA air scrubber that traps and neutralizes airborne pathogens.

Monzer Hourani was born on 22 June 1943 to Adib and Adiba Monzer Hourani; he was the eldest of four siblings.

Monzer Hourani was born in Palestine, but his exact birthplace is unknown due to the destruction of his birth records in a church fire.

Monzer Hourani grew up in Tripoli, where his father taught English and history in college.

Monzer Hourani showed a talent for music when he was six, and at eight he started taking piano lessons.

The young Monzer Hourani would spend hours at the US Information Services Library, where, on 8 May 1958, the library was attacked by a mob of insurgents.

Monzer Hourani hid under a library table, but he witnessed the murder of the librarian by stabbing.

The traumatized Monzer Hourani ran home and would not stop screaming for two days.

On 21 June 1958, Monzer Hourani's mother was shot in front of him when the two were out in an unstable Tripoli neighborhood.

Monzer Hourani was able to pay the investors back by focusing on projects.

Monzer Hourani asked the RTC to continue funding his loans; he offered his "personal real estate and investment lands as additional collateral to the RTC".

In 2002 Monzer Hourani patented window braces designed to resist Category 4 and 5 hurricanes; he conceived proprietary technology for an oil skimmer inspired by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska, and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Monzer Hourani came up with the idea of a HEPA air scrubber that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in March 2020.

Monzer Hourani converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1980s.

Monzer Hourani developed close ties and was involved in a number of controversies with US senator Orrin Hatch who was his mentor when he joined the LDS Church.

Hatch was accused of receiving campaign contributions from Monzer Hourani laundered through his employees after Monzer Hourani had exceeded the maximum individual contributions limit.

Monzer Hourani purchased 1,200 CDs of Hatch's songs, for which Hatch received $3 to $7 each, he managed a blind trust for Hatch.