Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political simoon swept the Levant. In Beirut and Damascus the bazaars seethed. Shops were shut, transport suspended. Students marched defiantly through streets emptied of everything but aloof camels. In their barracks, sullen French troops waited tensely, side by side with nervous French civilians...
...French troops were the storm center. Seldom had France so crudely alienated its 4,000,000 sensitive Syrian and Lebanese subjects as when the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc slid into Beirut harbor last month to land a thousand Senegalese soldiers. Instantly Syrians and Lebanese saw a threat to the independence they had long been clamoring for. The fuse sputtered...
...Have Eternity...." He studied at home, learned Arabic, French, English. At eleven he went to Boston with his sister, mother and halfbrother, stayed there for two years. He studied at Beirut and in Paris, wrote poems in Arabic. His first poem, Spirits Rebellious, was burned in the market place of Beirut, and he was exiled from Lebanon and excommunicated from the Maronite Church as "dangerous, revolutionary and poisonous to youth...
Gibran preached a diffuse Christianity without creed or ritual. He organized no church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
...pollsters were the staff of the American University of Beirut, assisted by government authorities of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Great Britain, the Free French...