“The Lebanese government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide, but nowhere is there any official memorial to the victims of the World War I famine.” — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“Unlike Syria, Mount Lebanon was not a land with a diverse topography, but mostly mountainous. Fawwaz Traboulsi wrote that the amount of cultivable land in Mount Lebanon was four percent of the total surface, or approximately forty-nine square miles. Of this area, about twenty-two square miles, or nearly half, was cultivated with toot shami, the Damascus mulberry tree.12 One variety… — Louis Farshee Copy Share
“The Lebanese government has officially recognized the Armenian genocide, but nowhere is there any official memorial to the victims of the World War I famine.” — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the imperial capital… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the claim ignores the fact that 300,000 Lebanese men and women emigrated to the West between 1890 and 1914.16 Had… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“For example, the people of Mount Lebanon were identified as “Syrians” until well into the 1940s. In the United States, the ethnic designation “Lebanese”… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“The people of the Mountain were more self-sustaining than the Beirutis. Most of them had modest pieces of land on which they grew vegetables.” — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“Naoum, Sarkis, transporter of goods, humanitarian and master smuggler, a.k.a. the “Hero of ’14” — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“One would think that a cataclysm that reportedly claimed tens of thousands of lives through starvation and disease would have been as traumatic to… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
