History Quote by Robert Fisk

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

“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

“You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.”

— Rabih Alameddine

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

— Bashar al-Assad

“The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse tribal, village,…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play and poem,…

— Adam Rogers

“This Levantine spirit developed gradually in Beirut after the Industrial Revolution, as the burgeoning Lebanese silk trade and the invention of the steamboat combined…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Ten thousand or more years before that our species migrated between continents on rafts of seaweed and surmounted mountains in little more than animal…

— Scott Carney

Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they…

— Nadine Labaki

“The idea was that in Palaeolithic days, contemporary with the Glacial Age of Northern Europe and America, the climate of Egypt was entirely different…

— Leonard William King