Lebanese Handicrafts “Keep Lebanon in your mind” A handicraft‚ sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft‚ is one among a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools with an esthetic sense born of historical‚ social and environmental influences. Blown glass It is a very ancient technique‚ the oldest among the handicrafts‚ where the glassmaker blows air into the hot molten glass and the art of transformation
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Around the 12th century BC‚ the Greeks gave the coastal region of the eastern Mediterranean the name Phoenicia. This name was so widely accepted that even the Romans adopted it at a later date. Phoenicia was the land between the Orontes River and Mount Caramel. The land was characterized early as the homeland or origination of the surviving Syro-Canaanite civilization. This unique civilization survived the many threats from other cultures of the 12th century BC. The Syro-Canaan civilization produced
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July 20‚ 1985 Place of Birth: El Ghazie‚ Lebanon Citizenship: Lebanese Home address: Rome‚ Via Cambridge‚ 115 Civil status: Single II. EDUCATION HISTORY Current Studies: University of Rome – Tor Vergata Masters in Business Administration 2003-2008: Lebanese University - Faculty of Business and Economical Sciences Nabatieh‚ Lebanon Graduation: BA Degree in Banking and Finance 1991-2003: National Evangelical Institute for Girls and Boys - Saida‚ Lebanon Graduation: Baccalaureate Degree in Sociology
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around 400 BCE. <br> <br>Phoenicia is an ancient region lying on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Empire peaked at around 1000 BCE‚ and developed until around 700 BCE. Phoenicia‚ now known as Lebanon‚ Syria‚ and Israel‚ was naturally isolated from other civilizations by the Lebanon Mountains in the east‚ and the great sea on the west. The small region stretched about 320 kilometers long and about 25 kilometers wide. This geographical isolation gave the Phoenicians enough protection to
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from Lebanon have been establishing communities throughout the world‚ and have been talking a lot about migration‚ until the number of Lebanese people outside Lebanon became greater than the double the number of Lebanese citizens. The Lebanese migration seems to have several principal causes. Hence‚ how are those causes really affecting the Lebanese migration? The first one is the economic causes‚ the second one is the social cause the third one is the weakness of the academic level in Lebanon. For
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Gaining Stability in a Nation out of Control Gaining Stability in a Nation Out of Control Lebanon remains a key component to the United States national interest in the Middle East. Senior Leaders‚ grasping the importance of this vital democratic state is paramount‚ because it is critical to U.S. strategic interests and you may find yourself in need of this knowledge for future Middle East engagements. This paper will explain Lebanon’s background‚ government‚ strategic importance‚ and its
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INTRODUCTION & OUTLINE Some of you heard about the new "world" that has been created in Lebanon‚ and some of you didn’t. What am I talking about? I’m talking about a children’s world‚ where kids can be adults. It is a theme park where kids can work‚ drive‚ shop‚ travel‚ and do so many other activities. In what follows‚ I will introduce you to people behind this achievement‚ define KidzMondo‚ explain its rules‚ and what types of safety it contains. SO WHO ARE THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS ACHEIVEMENT
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Lebanon Gasket Company | October 24 2012 | | Creating a Lean Enterprise | CREATING A LEAN ENTERPRISE: THE CASE OF THE LEBANON GASKET COMPANY I. Summary of facts * Lebanon Gasket Company’s Topeka‚ Kansas Facility began operation in 1979. * The company had operated in using mass production. * In January of 2004 LGC had about 109 employees. * The LGC Topeka plant relies on two main manufacturing processes – injection molding and extrusion
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passed by this area of the world leaving a lot of spectacular and interesting heritage and history. For example‚ we have Lebanon. It is a country where many heritage is left in it due to its iconic geographic location. Over the years‚ the Lebanese old historic buildings have been a point of interest to the whole world‚ leaving the tourists in a surprise. The capital of Lebanon is thought to be in excess of 5‚000 years of age‚ making it one of the oldest cities on the planet. Romans‚ Arabs‚ Byzantines
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Phoenicians of Tyre‚ Sidon and Byblos lay on a strip of the Levantine Coast that stretched just under 200 miles‚ they were hemmed into the strip from the east geographically by Mt Lebanon that spanned for 110 miles of land occupied by the Phoenician cities stopped any spread eastward. Farm land was fertile but not enough to feed a growing population . One of these key resources that the Phoenicians had in their corner where the forests of trees that grew on the slopes of Mt Lebanon‚ trees like pines‚ cypresses
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