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Gabriel was born on 21 October 1964 to a family of Maronite Christians in the Marjeyoun District of Lebanon. [7] During the Lebanese Civil War, Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family's house and destroyed her home. Gabriel, who was ten years old at the time, suffered shrapnel injuries in the attack.
As the last Lebanese census was conducted in 1932, it is difficult to have precise population estimates. Lebanon has the highest proportion of Christians of any country in the Middle East, but exact size of this population has been disputed for many years. One estimate of the Christian share of Lebanon's population, as of 2012, was 40.5%. [19]
Layyah Faris Anton Alkazin Barakat (circa 1858— December 4, 1940) was a Lebanese-born Christian missionary, writer, temperance activist, and prison reformer, based after 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first Lebanese American woman to write and publish her autobiography, when A Message from Mount Lebanon was published in 1912.
The women and children of a Ain Ebel, a Christian Village Lebanon, have fled. Left behind are the men who are protecting their ancestral land in the face of Israel's missiles.
She was active within the pioneering Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union. When the Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union was split in the Women's Union under Ibtihaj Qaddoura and the Christian Women's Solidarity Association in 1947, Laure Thabet became the President of the Women's Solidarity Association, which was an umbrella organization of 20 Christian ...
Lebanese Christian anti-Hezbollah activist Antonios Tawk criticized Ziadeh on X, formerly known as Twitter. ... Shiites, don’t want their homes destroyed or have their children, women and men ...
Women in Lebanon are treated according to patriarchal norms although the legal status of women has improved since the 20th century. Gender equality in Lebanon remains problematic. [ 3 ] Active feminist movements exist in Lebanon which are trying to overcome the legal and sociopolitical discrimination enshrined in law.
The head of a political party and a Christian coalition group in Lebanon is calling on the U.S. and its Western allies to step in and deploy deterrent forces to permanently dismantle Hezbollah ...