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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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Fuad Said Haddad
(Middle East Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 7, 1995) Khalil was born in I919 in Shwayr', Lebanon. The files at the American University of Beirut indicate 1925 as his birth date. In the 'Arab Studies' magazine, No. 4, Year 21, May 1985, Dr. Michel Jeha...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Michael James Fares
Every day more lives are lost in the country some call Israel and some call Palestine. Israeli gunfire kills Palestinians everyday, many of whom are small children or young teenagers who still have their lives ahead of them. The Israeli's suffer...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Ron Bergquist
T Transmission of thought plays no less significant a role in the development of culture than origination of thought. If the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the first surah of the Koran; if Homer, Dante and Shakespeare were not...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Michael James Fares
In her pre-Iraq War book Just War Against Terror, Jean Bethke Elshtain explores the concept of a "just war" and what it means for America to fight a just war against terrorism. Whilst advocating the Afghan War, Elshtain lays down characteristics of...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Fr. Gregory Hallam
Reprinted courtesy of Revd Fr Gregory Hallam
St. Aidan's Orthodox
Church,
Antiochian Orthodox
Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland
The little voice in my heart saying "Go to Syria and Lebanon" had been my companion
for some time,...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D.,
Nowhere has Christian morality
come under greater attack than in the whole area of sex outside marriage.
The Biblical teaching that sex is only for marriage does not even enter
the thinking of most people today. The Biblical condemnation of...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:M. J. Fares
Terrorism, like communism was for so many years, is now the key threat facing America. Because America now finds itself confronted with this different and never before experienced enemy of terrorism, it must undertake new efforts to develop a...
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Kaftoun/General Articles
Author:Robert L. Fares
The United States has not been truly involved in a war since the Japanese surrender on August 14, 1945. However, the United States has involved itself it three sizable campaigns of "police action." These campaigns of "police action," manifest...
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Kaftoun/Village Articles
Author:Administrator
Kaftoun is a small Lebanese village located along the north bank of the Nahr el Jaouz (Walnut River), in the District of [[Koura|El-Koura]], North Lebanon [Kaftoun satellite map]. The houses of Kaftoun number seventy, and its inhabitants number...
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Kaftoun/Village Articles
Author:Bethany E. Chaney
Learning the Alphabet
On the shelf in my study is a small, olive notebook dating from the 1930s, deep brown around the edges, its linen boards and Navy emblem shiny from handling and age. On the inside cover is a name, Rosalie Abraham, and her...
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