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Christianity in Lebanon has a long and continuous history. Biblical Scriptures show that Peter and Paul evangelized the Phoenicians, whom they affiliated to the ancient Patriarchate of Antioch. Christianity spread slowly in Lebanon due to pagans who resisted conversion, but it ultimately spread throughout the country.
Article 11 of the Constitution of Lebanon states: "Arabic is the official national language. A law determines the cases in which the French language is to be used". The spoken Lebanese Arabic dialect used in public mixes Arabic with French. Cuisine and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms".
e. The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language education when used instead of or alongside the Arabic script, and representation of the language in ...
Lebanese people in South Africa. Fulton Allem, professional golfer. A. C. Chemaly, general officer in the South African Army. Ken Costa, London-based South African banker and Christian philanthropist. Al Debbo, actor and comedian. Pierre Issa, professional football (soccer) player. Azar Jammine, political economist.
Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
Elections. The Lebanese Arab Struggle Movement – LASM ( Arabic: حركة النضال العربي اللبناني | Harakat al-Nidal al-Arabi al-Lubnani) is a political party in Lebanon. Faisal Dawood, former Member of Parliament, is the current general secretary of the party. [1] [2] The LASM is supportive of the Syrian government and ...
The history of the Jews in Lebanon encompasses the presence of Jews in present-day Lebanon stretching back to biblical times. While Jews have been present in Lebanon since ancient times, [1] their numbers had dwindled during the Muslim era. [2] Through the medieval ages, Jewish people often faced persecution, [3] but retained their religious ...