{"id":4905,"date":"2006-08-03T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:13:05","slug":"epalestine-statistics-about-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/08\/epalestine-statistics-about-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics about Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics about Lebanon  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

This is just to add some background (which may be polemic at times, I admit) to the daily news of these days.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

1. Lebanon has 18 religious communities.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

2. It has 40 daily newspapers.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

3. It has 42 universities.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

4. It has over 100 banks (that is banks and not branches of a bank).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

5. 70% of the students are in private schools.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

6. 40% of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highest percent all the Arab countries).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

7. There’s 1 doctor per 10 people in Lebanon (In Europe & America, there’s 1 doctor per 100 people).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

8. The name LEBANON appears 75 times in the Old Testament.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

9. The name CEDAR (Lebanon’s tree) appears 75 times too in the Old Testament.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

10. Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times (this is why it’s compared to The Phoenix).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

11. There are 3.5 Million Lebanese in Lebanon.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

12. There are around 10 Million Lebanese outside Lebanon.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

1. Lebanon was occupied by many countries: Egyptians-Hittites-Assyrians- Babylonians- Persians- Alexander the Great’s Army- the Roman Empire-Byzantine- the Arabian Peninsula- The Crusaders-the Ottoman Empire- Britain-France- Israel- Syria.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

2. Byblos (city in Lebanon) is the oldest, continuously inhabitated city in the world.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

3. Lebanon’s name has been around for 4,000 yrs non- stop (it’s the oldest country\/ nation’s name in the world).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

4. Lebanon is the only Asian\/African country that doesn’t have a desert.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

5. There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all of them coming from its own mountains).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

6. Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in its archeological sites, in the world.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

7. The first alphabet was created in Byblos (city in Lebanon).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

8. The only remaining temple of Jupiter (the main Roman god) is in Baalbeck, Lebanon (The City of the Sun).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

9. The name of BYBLOS comes from the bible.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

10. Lebanon is the country that has the most books written about it.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

11. Lebanon is the only non-dictatorial country in the Arab world (it has a President!).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

12. According to Christianity Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon, in Sidon (The miracle of turning water into wine).  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

13. The Phoenicians (Original People of Lebanon) built the 1st boat, and they were the first to sail ever.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

14. Phoenicians also reached America long before Christopher Columbus did.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

15. The 1st law school in the world was built in Lebanon, in Downtown Beirut.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

16. People say that the cedars were planted by God’s own hands (This is why they’re called "The Cedars of God", and this is why Lebanon is called by many "God’s Country on Earth."  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/critic.typepad.com\/israel\/2006\/07\/index.html<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

———————————————————————–<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

Everything about this list:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Statistics about Lebanon  This is just to add some background (which may be polemic at times, I admit) to the daily news of these days.  1. Lebanon has 18 religious communities.  2. It has 40 daily newspapers.  3. It has 42 universities.  4. It has over 100 banks (that is banks and not branches of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour was instrumental in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9926,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/9926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}