The Greatest Lebanese of all Time

[orange infection]

michel shi7a

he's an eternal source

[Venom]

Gibran Khalil Gibran...........................

[Omeros]

jobran khalil jobran

ziad re7bene

sa3id 3a2el

n3ayme

[Bejin]

Saint Charbel, Saint Rafka, Saint Neemtallah, Saint Estephan Doueihy, Saint Estephan Nehme Mokaram, Saint Ya3oub el Kabouchi-Toubawi, Saint Tarabay, Charles Malek, Bachir Gemayel, Khalil Gibran, Youssef Bek Karam, Michel Chiha, Camille Chamoun, Alfred Naccache, Fakhreddine, Charbel Kassis, Patriarch Elias Howayek, the list is long !!!

[AliArz]

Originally Posted by SeekNirvana

Youssef Bek Karam? Youssef Beidas? Ghassan Tueni? Bachir Gemayel?

Why?

Why Karam, Beidas, Tueni? In order to fill in my remaining 3 spots...

All jokes aside, I feel that Karam is an important legend in Lebanese history and he deserves a Top 10 position. Beidas created the greatest bank (Intra Bank) in the greatest banking centre of the Arab world: Lebanon. Because of him, the Lebanese economy was booming as it was called the "Swiss of the Middle East". Tueni is in there because he popularized the best Arab newspaper in history: An Nahar.

Why would you disagree?

Regards,

Ali Arz

[Abufijli]

Sayed Hassan, Fouad Shihab, Sayed Moussa, Fairouz, Marcel Khalifi and Haifa Wehbe ofcourse.

[SeekNirvana]

Originally Posted by AliArz

All jokes aside, I feel that Karam is an important legend in Lebanese history and he deserves a Top 10 position.

Oppressing the farmers' revolt in Kesserwan and siding with the feudal landlords against the farmers'.

Beidas created the greatest bank (Intra Bank) in the greatest banking centre of the Arab world: Lebanon. Because of him, the Lebanese economy was booming as it was called the "Swiss of the Middle East".

Intra Bank is the biggest disaster that ever occurred to Lebanon. It's another tale of corruption and bad vision. It's actually believed [by some scholars] that it's one of the major reasons behind the dismantling of the Lebanese state [through its economy]. Check this:
- Warlords And Merchants: The Lebanese Business And Political Establishment by Kamal Dib
- The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976 by Farid el Khazen

[Dalzi]

Give us names of some brains here. Bala fairouz w marcel w haifa, bala ballout.

[CedarJet]

Waiting for SeekNirvana's negative points about St.Charbel and St.Rafqa.

Is it true that the civil war was ignited by St.Charbel? and St.Rafqa used to supply the PLO with rocket launchers?

Youssef Bey Karam, even though he came from a feudal family, but he proved himself loyal to the cause and fierce in battles. After he was exiled, he spent his days going from country to another rallying the for the cause.

I'd have to think of a few more today at work.

[shadow1]

I always thought Yousef bek Karam was a bandit especially after that fiasco on the way to save Zahle in 1860 massacres.