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A showing of the series based on the film by two Lebanese television stations Al-Manar and National Broadcasting Network during the Holy month of Ramadan was suspended after the broadcast of one initial episode, as the Christian religious authorities in the country demanded broadcasts to be suspended because many portrayals in the film ...
Arab Christian wedding in Galilee. Arab Christians are one of the most educated groups in Israel. Maariv has described the Christian Arab sectors as "the most successful in the education system". [264] Statistically, Christian Arabs in Israel have the highest rates of educational attainment among all religious communities.
The film was made with the intention of showing what Muslims and Arabs go through at times. However, the film received a lot of controversy not only from non-Arabs and non-Muslims, but also by Muslims, mosques and the Tell MAMA organization, which monitors anti-Muslim hate crimes. Tell MAMA, mosques, and the people from the Muslim community ...
Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country that has the most religiously diverse society within the Middle East, recognizing 18 religious sects. [2] [3] The recognized religions are Islam (Sunni, Shia, Alawites, and Isma'ili), Druze, Christianity (the Maronite Church, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, evangelical Protestantism, the Armenian ...
The conquest of Lebanon during the Arab and Islamic conquests was linked to the conquest of Bilād Al-Shām as a whole, or what is known as the Levant, being an integral part of it, the Arab Muslims swiftly took it from the Byzantine Empire during the era of Caliph Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, who ordered the division of the Levant when he conquered it ...
Lebanon celebrates national holidays and both Christian and Muslim holidays. Christian holidays are celebrated following both the Gregorian Calendar and Julian Calendar. Greek Orthodox, Catholics (Maronite and Melkite), and Protestant Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar and thus celebrate Christmas on 25 December. Armenian Orthodox ...
In general it appears that Muslims focus more on the Arab identity of the Lebanese history and culture whereas the Christian communities–especially the Maronites, focus on their history and struggles as an ethnoreligious group as distinct from Arab identity and the Arab world, while also reaffirming the Lebanese identity, as well as ...
Christians were half of Lebanon's population before the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), but in 2012 they are believed to form a large minority of 40.5% [114] of the country's population (according to the last official Lebanese Census of 1932, the Lebanese Christian population was 51% [115] of the country's population).