Lebanese population in Doha
Just wanted to say 'good on you" to the Lebanese population in Doha.
Every time i wonder where this really cool,friendly person i have just met is from, hey it seems to be Lebanon. The guy selling us our cars, the guy in the Virgin megastore, the coach at the club, secretary at the school, moms in the playgroup. Awesome sense of humour, great conversation, intelligent, and hooray, the most normal bunch of people here as far as i'm concerned. thanks for making life here far more bearable!!
WHY DO WE LOVE LEBANON SO MUCH ?
STATISTICS ABOUT LEBANON
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 a bank)
5. 70% of the students are in private schools
6. 40% of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highest percent all the Arab countries)
7. There's 1 doctor per 10 people in Lebanon (In Europe & America, there's 1 doctor per 100 people)
8. The name LEBANON appears 75 times in the Old Testament
9. The name CEDAR (Lebanon's tree) appears 75 times too in the Old Testament!!
10. Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 9 times (this is why it's compared to The Phoenix).
11. There's 3.5 Million Lebanese in Lebanon
12. There's around 15 Million Lebanese outside Lebanon!!!
OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:
1. Lebanon, the country, was occupied by over 16 countries:
(Egyptians-Hittites-Assyrians- Babylonians- Persians- Alexander the greats Army- the Roman Empire Byzantine- the Arabian Peninsula-The Crusaders- the Ottoman Empire- Britain-France- Israel- Syria)
2. Byblos (city in Lebanon) is the oldest, continuously living city in the world.
3. Lebanon's name has been around for 4,000 yrs non- stop (it's the oldest country/ nation's name in the world!)
4. Lebanon is the only Asian/African country that doesn't have a desert.
5. There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all of them coming from its own mountains)
6. Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in its archeological sites, in the world!!!
7. The first alphabet was created in Byblos (city in Lebanon)
8. The only remaining temple of Jupiter (the main Roman god) is in Baalbeck, Lebanon (The City of the Sun)
9. The name of BYBLOS comes from the BIBLE!!!
10. Lebanon is the country that has the most books written about it.
11. Lebanon is the only non-dictatorial country in the Arab world (Yes, we do have a President!)
12. Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon, in Qana (The miracle of Turning water into wine).
13. The Phoenicians (Original People of Lebanon) built the 1st boat, and they were the first to sail ever!
14. Phoenicians also reached America long before Christopher Columbus did.
15. The 1st law school in the world was built in Lebanon, in Downtown Beirut.
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 "God's Country on Earth."
love Lebanon... may God bless.your homeland forever....
I agree with you hundred percent. But Even during the war we were having good times.
Hehe.. Many memories.
God Bless you all...
You are all welcomed and I hope we can all make your lives in Doha more interesting and enjoyable.
first of all i want to thank you all for all the nice remarks you made about lebanese and lebanon.
if i have the choice to be reborn i would shoose lebanon all over again.
i beleive that if lebanon was left alone, lebanon can be one of the most successful countries in the world.
if i immagine lebanon without the wars, lebanon will look like swiss with an extra flair to it.
sometimes we are sweet, sometimes we are rude. sometimes we are open minded while other time PIG heads.
but wut makes a lebanese LEBANESE is the ability to be all that in the same time.
we love life, we love you, we love diversity and we just love being labeled as lebanese wherever we go cz we really take pride in it.
again thx all for the nice words and thx for supporting us.
love the lebs r hate them..we r here 2 stay....And we are proud.We r the most resilient race...regardless of religion....It doesnt matter who tries to bring us down..we pick ourselves up and continue with life..with a smile on our face...And god help the lebanese people who have suffered through war and continue to suffer. Despite enduring years of war and torture we manage to be hospitable and be the best that we can...So if uve come across some bad lebanese people, sympathise with them and consider what they have been through instead of criticize them.....
I was going to visit Lebanon on a tourist visa for 2 weeks. I had an excellent tour package and then the stupid war started 3 weeks before my departure. I was saying to my self, Did I just got lucky or is just me and my crazy traveling plans? I was able to recover all my money. Maybe Jordan???
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds..
The only place in the ME that I would go on holiday. They are friendly, open and don't think the world revolves around them.
Only bad point - drive really badly maintained cars too fast. (Still safer than here) :)
River-rat: You should had never opened such a topic, now we will have a non stop long replies from the 10 millions lebanese leaving outside lebanon!!!
Just kidding...
I think there are only two definitions of humans (good or bad)
Then comes nationality and religious
In every community and religious there are good and bad people
Most of nationalities Especially Qatari and Gulf poeple can barely Distinguish between "Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.. even most of times they can not ..
i'm MATH teacher in secondary school... and all of my student has not discovored my nationality yet !! tsome of them still think that i'm lebanese and the other says i'm syrian and the other believe that i'm mixture :)
Even i forgot that where i'm from !!! can anybody tell my ?? lol
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I am half Lebanese, and I love Lebanon, went there zillions of times and was even born there...and though I agree with many of the qualities mentioned here, I have to mention that by looking little bit deeper you may discover a lot of negative things in the Lebanese personality.... I will not illustrate any more than that because I don't want to open the doors of hell, I am so busy today for arguing :)as for the beauty issue I have to say that the Turks are the most good looking people on earth
Plz don't dislike us !!we r peacefull poeple ... what can i do for u to like us ... :)
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Local newspapers and magazines...........yeah sure the war must be stopped,any way this is our country small nice complicated but sure even in war life will be beter from Gulf and from other countries :)
If they could stop the wars it will be a better place.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds..
Excuse me. I was going to stay out of this thread but where do the 40 daily newspapers come from?
hay really thanks for the nice comments about us as a lebaness and also thanks for the ppl that dont like us but i wana say some thing not all lebaness angels coz not all ur fingers in ur hand like each other,but what make us special or diferent that we have many religons,open minded like the other nationality,like to travel and learn about another cultures,
All this in country smaller than qatar 10425,000 m2
STATISTICS ABOUT LEBANON:
>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 a bank)
>5. 70% of the students are in private schools
>6. 40% of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highestpercent
>all the Arab countries)
>7. There's 1 doctor per 10 people in Lebanon (In Europe & America, there's
>1 doctor per 100 people)
>8. The name LEBANON appears 75 times in the Old Testament
>9. The name CEDAR (Lebanon's tree) appears 75 times too in the Old
>Testament!!
>10. Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times (this is why it's compared to
>The Phoenix).
>11. There are 3.5 Million Lebanese in Lebanon
>12. There are around 10 Million Lebanese outside Lebanon!
>
>OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:
>1. Lebanon, the country, was occupied by over 16
>countries:Egyptians-Hittites-Assyrians-Babylonians- Persians- Alexander the
>greats Army- the Roman Empire-Byzantine- the Arabian Peninsula-The
>Crusaders- the Ottoman Empire-Britain-France- Israel- Syria.
>2. Byblos (city in Lebanon) is the oldest, continuously living city in the
>world.
>3.
>Lebanon's name has been around for 4,000 yrs non- stop (it's the oldest
>country/nation's name in the world!)
>4. Lebanon is the only Asian/African country that doesn't have a desert.
>5. There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all of them coming from its own
>mountains)
>6. Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in its archeological
>sites, in the world!!!
>7. The first alphabet was created in Byblos (city in Lebanon)
>8. The only remaining temple of Jupiter (the main Roman god) is in
>Baalbeck, Lebanon (The City of the Sun)
>9. The name of BYBLOS comes from the BIBLE!!!
>10. Lebanon is the country that has the most books written about it.
>11. Lebanon is the only
>non-dictatorial country in the Arab world (it has a President!)
>12. According to Christianity Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon,
>in Sidon (The miracle of Turning water into wine).
>13. The Phoenicians (Original People of Lebanon) built the 1st boat, and
>they were the first to sail ever!
>14. Phoenicians also reached America long before Christopher Columbus did.
>15. The 1st law school in the world was built in Lebanon, in Downtown
>Beirut.
>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 "God's Country on Earth."Is not a real Crime Against Humanity to
>destroy a country with such history
i dont care you are a lebanese, syrian, jordanian, indian, pakistani whatever ... as far as you are nice to me i will be nice to you :-)
damn sight more friendly than the locals, miserable glaring arrogant bunch, and if that is stereotyping them, well then tough.
Thank heavens you can choose your friends huh? Do you have something against the Lebanese Raina? I was merely indicating that i had met some really nice people and that the bulk of them were actually from Lebanon. Was't inviting any criticism just stating a fact and it is a fact because all those people are Lebanese.
Xenophobia or what???
have to be agree with you alexa. they are the most beautiful people on earth not just the ladies but the men too.
I think the issue of "Lebanization" in Doha has been blown out of propotion and represents the best example of blind stereotyping.With all the respect to the lebanese community, there are other middle eastern nationalities "Jordanians, Palestinians,Syrians that stand out on the same level and you might have met them and thought they were lebanese!!