This lovely mountain resort town is perched above the eastern end of
the beautiful Kadisha Gorge and at the foothills of the Cedars of Lebanon.
It is the brith place of Lebanon's most famous author
Khalil Gibran. It has a small museum which pays tribute to him.
Beiteddine palace was built over a period of thirty years by Emir Bechir Chehab II.
It's architecture reflects the typical oriental architecture of the 19th century Ottoman Era.
It is remarkable for its glamorous
arcades, multicolored mosaic floors, reception rooms, harems, hammams
and even by its guest house "Diyafa" where passing guests were lodged
(French poet Lamartine stayed once there).
Detail of the Sarcophagus of Ahiram, king of Byblos, seated
on a cherub throne, before an offering table, 13th century B.C (National Museum of Beirut).
Around 1200 B.C. the scribes of Byblos developed an alphabetic phonetic script, the precursor of our modern
alphabet. By 800 B.C., it had traveled to Greece, changing forever the way man communicated.
Located in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, Baalbek is an ancient city
that has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Originally
Canaanite (3rd century BC), the Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines,
and Arabs successively occupied Ba'albek and left their imprints on the
place, often modifying what existed previously.
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Fares Family/Mekhael and Fadwa Letters to Jihad
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This section contains a collection of letters (in Arabic) from a father and mother to their son and his family who are living away from them.
Letters to Jihad
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Fares Family/Mekhael Elias Fares Daily Journal
Author:Administrator
Selections (in Arabic) from the Daily Journal of Mekhael Elias Fares.
Mekhael Elias Fares Daily Journal
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Fares Family/Fares Family Tree
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Fares Family Tree
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Fares Family/Articles
Author:Randa Fares
Let me tell you about my Dad…
Dad's name was Mikhael Fares and he died one year ago today – November 11, 2008. He was born on October 1, 1924 to Elias Nakhoul Fares from Kaftoun and
Marta Zeaiter from Bou-Qismayya.
There is a long...
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Fares Family/Articles
Author:Randa Fares Youssef
Beautiful Dad
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 1:53pm
I I want to talk about my dad. It is hard for me to talk about him to
"real" people; I hate to feel weak and emotional - it tarnishes my
public image of the strong stoic Randa! So I...
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