“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 the Mutasarrifiyah been as successful as some purport, there might have been fewer immigrants willing to… — 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
