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unusual facts about Lebanese Civil War


From Beirut to Jerusalem: A Woman Surgeon With the Palestinians

From Beirut to Jerusalem: A Woman Surgeon With the Palestinians is a book by Swee Chai Ang, an orthopaedic surgeon who worked with civilians during the Lebanese Civil War.


Arabs in Europe

Other events in the Arab world sent new immigration waives to Europe like the Palestinian exodus, the Lebanese Civil War, the first and second Iraq war, Libyan civil war and Syrian civil war.

Arabs in Germany

However, the majority of Arabs are refugees of the conflicts in the Middle East, e.g. the Lebanese Civil War, Palestinian exodus and the recent Iraq War, Libyan civil war, and current Syrian civil war.

Bsharri

During the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990), Bsharri was a bastion of Christian resistance against first the Palestinians and the Syrians.

Derek Plumbly

Plumbly went on to study Arabic, first in Shemlan, Lebanon, where he lived with a family for a year and a half, and then at the University of Jordan with the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.

Fouad Elkoury

Fouad ElKoury began his photographic career producing images of daily life during the Lebanese Civil War.

Safra massacre

The Safra massacre, or Day of the Long Knives, occurred in the coastal town of Safra (north of Beirut) on 7 July 1980, during the Lebanese civil war, as part of Bashir Gemayel's effort to consolidate all the Christian fighters under his leadership in the Lebanese Forces.

Souk El Gharb

Before the Lebanese Civil War, it was a prosperous mountain resort, nestled in the Chouf Mountain of Mount Lebanon in a pine forest and overlooking Saint George Bay and Beirut.

Toilers League

During the 1975-76 war the ZKF's strength peaked at about 200-500 male and female fighters who fought in the ranks of the LNM/Joint Forces.

University of Balamand

The University of Balamand was founded by the Patriarch through the concept of a Kouranian engineer called Elias Abi Shaheen, in which the concept formed between years 1983 and 1987, in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War.

Wadi Abu Jamil

During the 1982 Lebanon War, Yasir Arafat's PLO forces took over much of the neighborhood, which was located along the dividing line between the two sides of the Lebanese Civil War.


see also

Bustros family

Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a documentary by Jennifer Fox and Gaby Bustros, that peeks into the struggles that members of the Bustros family faced during the Lebanese civil war.

LNM

Lebanese National Movement, political front active in the early days of the Lebanese Civil War