Kfarshima

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Kfarshima
كفرشيما
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Kfarshima
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°48′55″N35°32′0″E / 33.81528°N 35.53333°E / 33.81528; 35.53333
CountryFlag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon
Governorate Mount Lebanon Governorate
District Baabda District
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)+3

Kfarshima (Arabic : 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 Christians: mainly Melkite Greek Catholic and Maronites, with smaller communities of Greek Orthodox and Protestant Evangelical Christians. Kfarshima was subject to heavy bombing during the Lebanese civil war since it was a primary fault line.

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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

Churches

There are seven churches in Kfarchima:

Notable residents

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