Kfarshima

2025-01-25T12:32:13Z

95.158.71.74: I add information about Amir Hlayyil, poet and ethnographer, translator of the excerpt from James Joyce's "Ulysses" in Lebanese. I also quote the scientific source.

{{Short description|Town in Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon}}
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'''Kfarshima''' ({{langx|ar|كفرشيما}}), also spelled '''Kfarchima''', is a town in the [[Baabda District]] of the [[Mount Lebanon Governorate]], southeast of [[Beirut]] and is part of [[Greater Beirut]].
The town is populated by Lebanese [[Christianity in Lebanon|Christians]]: mainly [[Melkite Christianity in Lebanon|Melkite Greek Catholic]] and [[Maronite Christianity in Lebanon|Maronites]], with smaller communities of [[Greek Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon|Greek Orthodox]] and [[Protestantism in Lebanon|Protestant Evangelical]] Christians. Kfarshima was subject to heavy bombing during the [[Lebanese civil war]] since it was a primary fault line.

Kfarshima is the birthplace of the composers musicians and singers, [[Philemon Wehbi]], [[Halim el-Roumi]] and [[Melhem Barakat]], and the singers [[Marie Sleiman]], and [[Majida El Roumi]]. Also the Birthplace of the Philosopher [[Shibli Shumayyil]] (Chibli Chemayel). It was also the hometown for Lebanese singer [[Issam Rajji]]. In 2023, Amir Hlayyil, ethnographer and poet from Kfarshima, translated in Lebanese the final excerpt from James Joyce's "Ulysses". It was published in 2024 in Göttingen by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage.

See:
Płonka, Arkadiusz. “Final Excerpt from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ in Lebanese : Manuscript Presentation and Philological Commentary.” In ''Rosa Damascena : Oriental Languages and Literature Studies'', edited by Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Arkadiusz Płonka, and Sebastian Gadomski, 211–34. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2024. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.14220/9783737017336.211

==Schools==
*[[Eastwood College]]
*Ecole Saint Maxime
*Lycée Adonis
*Ecole Notre Dame Des Soeurs Antonine
*Kfarshima Official Middle School
*Kfarshima Official High School
*[[National Protestant College]]

==Churches==
There are seven churches in Kfarchima:<br>
* The [[Greek Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon|Greek Orthodox]] church St. Peter & Paul, in Al-Mahatta.
* Three [[Maronite Christianity in Lebanon|Maronite]] Churches: St. Elias in Balouh, New Lady of the Rosary in Sahet-al-Ain and the Old Lady of the Rosary in Ain-al-Rouhban.
* The [[Protestantism in Lebanon|Evangelical]] Church in Haret-al-Majjadin.
* The St. Takla Church for the Catholics located in Sahet-al-Ain.
*The St. Antoine Church (Also called 'Deir Al Karkafi') located in Haret-al-Deir.

==Notable residents==
* [[Ilyās Farhāt]], poet
* [[Saleem Takla]], co-founder of [[Al-Ahram]]
* [[Shibli Shumayyil]]
* [[Hanna K. Korany]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.localiban.org/kfar-chima-4145 Kfar Chima]
{{Greater Beirut}}
{{Baabda District}}

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[[Category:Greater Beirut]]
[[Category:Populated places in Baabda District]]
[[Category:Melkite Christian communities in Lebanon]]
[[Category:Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon]]

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