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file help The Lebanese National Anthem ( Arabic : النشيد الوطني اللبناني , an-Našīd al-Waṭanī al-Lubnānī ), officially known as " Koullouna lilouaṭaan lil oula lil alam ", was written by Rashid Nakhle and composed by Wadih Sabra .
Nancy N. Roberts is a translator of Arabic literature. [1] She won the University of Arkansas Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75.She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.
Lebanon was also subjugated by two military occupations: Syria from 1976 to 2005 and Israel from 1985 to 2000. Lebanon has been the scene of several conflicts with Israel, of which the ongoing war marks the fourth Israeli invasion of it since 1978. Lebanon is a developing country, ranked 112th on the Human Development Index. [15]
Lebanese Arabic (Arabic: عَرَبِيّ لُبْنَانِيّ ʿarabiyy lubnāniyy; autonym: ʿarabe lebnēne [ˈʕaɾabe ləbˈneːne]), or simply Lebanese (Arabic: لُبْنَانِيّ lubnāniyy; autonym: lebnēne [ləbˈneːne]), is a group of accents or a variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily spoken in Lebanon, with some linguistic influences borrowed from other ...
The Lebanese writer Said Akl promoted the revival of the Aramaic language in Lebanon arguing for a Phoenician-Aramaic origin of the Lebanese vernacular. In 1999, Akl published the Maronite Missal and Eucharistic Liturgy in the Lebanese dialect in protest to the Maronite Church switching to Modern Standard Arabic from the Lebanese vernacular for its homilies.
The earliest practitioner of zajal in what is present-day Lebanon is thought [10] to be the Bishop Gabriel ibn al-Qilai Al-Hafadi (1440–1516), although some scholarship [11] traces Lebanese zajal back almost two centuries earlier to a poet by the name of Souleiman Al-Ashlouhi (1270–1335) and a few of his contemporaries, and in particular to ...
Elias Hanna Al Rahbani (Arabic: إلياس حنا الرحباني; 26 June 1938 – 4 January 2021) was a Lebanese musician, composer, songwriter, orchestra conductor, and reality television personality, sitting as judge on a number of talent shows. He composed more than 2,500 songs, including 2,000 in Arabic.
May Elias Ziadeh (/ z i ˈ ɑː d ə / zee-AH-də; Arabic: مي إلياس زيادة, ALA-LC: Mayy Ilyās Ziyādah; [a] 11 February 1886 [1] [2] – 17 October 1941) was a Palestinian-Lebanese Maronite poet, essayist, and translator, [3] [4] who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French.