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6 unusual facts about Lebanese people


Antoine Andraos

Antoine Andraos (born 1950) is a Lebanese politician and a vice-president of the Movement of the Future.

East Germany–Israel relations

This was bolstered by the National People's Army, which published a lengthy article in August 1982 likening Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people to the crimes of German Nazism in World War II and those of American imperialism against Vietnam.

George N. Atiyeh

George N. Atiyeh (1923 – April 21, 2008) was a Lebanese librarian and scholar.

Nadim Karam

Nadim Karam (born 1957) is a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist (painter and sculptor) and architect who fuses his artistic output of sculpture, painting, drawing with his background in architecture to create large-scale urban art projects in different cities of the world.

Panethnicity

There are always multiple identities, with a more localized prioritized ethnic orientation, such as Egyptian, Lebanese, or Palestinian — in addition to further tribal, village,and/or religious identities.

Richard Abikhair

Of Lebanese descent, Abikhair usually played as a rover or in the back pocket.


Albert Cossery

In 1998, he told Abdallah Naaman: "We are the "Shawams" (Syro-Lebanese, referring to the Bilad al-Sham) of Egypt. My father is a Greek Orthodox native of the village of al-Qusayr, near Homs, in Syria. Upon arriving in Cairo at the end of the 19th century, our surname's pronunciation was simplified to "Cossery" (from "Qusayri")."

Bassem Breish

Bassem Breish (Arabic: باسم بريش, also spelled Bassem Breiche) is a Lebanese film director and writer, who was recently notable for being a member of the team which made Shankaboot, a Lebanese series available through the internet which has been described as "the world's first Arabic web drama".

Hani Kobeissy

Hani Kobeissy is a Shia Lebanese member of parliament who was elected in 2009 to represent the Shiite seat in the Beirut II district.

Henry Habib

He is of Lebanese Christian descent and is currently in semi-retirement, teaching courses in World History, Middle Eastern politics and international law at Concordia University, McGill University, University of Ottawa and Carleton University.

Niha Chouf

The renowned Lebanese singer Wadih El Safi was born in Niha, and he's one of the most important mawwal performers of Lebanon and in the Middle East.

Ponta Grossa

From the beginning of the twentieth century on, numerous Slavic (Russians, Poles and Ukrainians) and German families settled in the city, along with Dutch, Italian, Lebanese and Japanese immigrants.

Robert Audi

In an interview for the Brooklyn Friends School of which he's an alumnus (year 1959), he revealed that his interest in philosophy came from his father, a businessman and Lebanese immigrant with an interest in philosophy and history.

Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian

Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian (born July 21, 1989 in Beirut) is a Lebanese table tennis player currently playing for Homenetmen Beirut.


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