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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 ...
Near East and the Caucasus: Salome Zourabichvili: President of Georgia: 16 December 2018 Irakli Kobakhidze: Prime Minister of Georgia: 8 February 2023 Iran: Near East: Ali Khamenei: Supreme Leader of Iran: 4 June 1989 Masoud Pezeshkian: President of Iran: 28 July 2024 Israel: Levant: Isaac Herzog: President of Israel: 7 July 2021 Benjamin ...
Lebanon, [b] officially the Republic of Lebanon, [c] 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
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
The largest concentration of people with Lebanese ancestry may be in Brazil, having an estimated population of 5.8 to 7 million. However, it may be an exaggeration given that an official survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that less than 1 million Brazilians claimed any Middle-Eastern origin. [8]
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 Six-Day War of 1967, strained sectarian relations in Lebanon. Many Muslims wanted Lebanon to join the Arab war effort, while many Christians wished to eschew participation. Helou managed to keep Lebanon from entanglement, apart from a brief air strike, but found it impossible to put the lid on the tensions that had been raised.
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 ...