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Bethany Kehdy – Miss World Lebanon 2001; Nadine Wilson Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2007; Nadine Nassib Njeim – Miss Lebanon 2004; Gabrielle Bou Rached – Miss Lebanon 2005; Daniella Rahme – Miss International Lebanon 2010; Maya Reaidy – Miss Lebanon 2018; Georgina Rizk – Miss Lebanon 1970/Miss Universe 1971; Pamela Saadé – Miss Earth ...
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: Levant: Najib Mikati: Acting President of Lebanon: 31 October 2022 Prime Minister of Lebanon: 10 September 2021 Libya: Maghreb: Mohamed al-Menfi: Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya: 10 March 2021 Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh* Prime Minister of Libya: 15 March 2021 Mauritania: Mohamed Ould Ghazouani: President of Mauritania: 1 August ...
Beirut became a prime location for institutions of international commerce and finance, as well as wealthy tourists, and enjoyed a reputation as the "Paris of the Middle East" until the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. In the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Lebanon became home to more than 110,000 Palestinian refugees. Beirut in 1950
Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ən ɒ n,-n ə n / ⓘ LEB-ən-on, -ən; Arabic: لُبْنَان, romanized: Lubnān, local pronunciation: [lɪbˈneːn]), officially the Republic of Lebanon, [b] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia, bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the country's coastline
The current wave of conflict gripping the Middle East began when the Palestinian militant group Hamas stormed from Gaza into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians ...
The Mount Lebanon famine caused the highest fatality rate by population during World War I. [126] Around 200,000 people starved to death when the population of Mount Lebanon was estimated to be 400,000 people. [127] The Lebanese diaspora in Egypt funded the shipping of food supplies to Mount Lebanon, sent via the Syrian Island town of Arwad. [128]
Khalifa's family fled Lebanon when she was only 10-years-old, she told Newsweek. In the time since, she has earned a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at El Paso and moved to Miami ...