The OSS Detachment 101 established a base camp under the guise of a centre for malarial research at a tea plantation near Nazira.
French novelist Pierre Benoit used Al-Sitt Nazira as the model for the heroine of his 1924 novel La Châtelaine du Liban (the Chatelaine of Lebanon).
Nazira falls in love with the main character Iskandar, a young Kazakh ham radio operator and space fanatic calling himself Gagarin, after the Soviet cosmonaut.