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Said Fayad
Mohammad Said Ibrahim Efendi Fayad (; 1921–2003) known as Said Fayad, was a Lebanese poet and literary journalist from the village of Ansar in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon. Personal life Fayad was the eldest son of Ibrahim Efendi Fayad, a local notable who served as a district governor under the French mandate, and Lamia Ali Dhaher, niece of the poet and religious figure Sheikh Suleiman Dhaher, a prominent intellectual in the Nabatieh governorate. Said was schooled in Nabatieh, Hasbaya, the Maqased in Saida and the Freres. He married Badriya Fayad and they had eight children: Afaf (step-daughter), Talal, Hilal, Daad, Dalal, Dunia, Ghada and Randa. He spent most of his career between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and then after retirement lived in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Morocco. He returned to Lebanon in the late 1990s where he died on 15 October 2003. Career Said began his career in Saudi Arabia with al-Riyad Magazine (Arabic الرياض) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese People
The Lebanese people ( ar, الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ', ) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state. The major religious groups among the Lebanese people within Lebanon are Shia Muslims (27%), Sunni Muslims (27%), Maronite Christians (21%), Greek Orthodox Christians (8%), Melkite Christians (5%), Druze (5.2%), Protestant Christians (1%). The largest contingent of Lebanese, however, comprise a diaspora in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa, which is predominantly Maronite Christian. As the relative proportion of the various sects is politically sensitive, Lebanon has not collected official census data on ethnic background since 1932 under the French Mandate. It is therefore difficult to have an exact demographic analysis of Lebanese society. The largest concentration of people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
