1 Baalbeck is spelled Baalbeck on the festival’s website. Because Arabic has some sounds which are not used in English and also does not have some letters that are used in English, words are spelled phonetically when translated which results in variations in spelling.
2 Leila Merrell Foster.
Enchantment of the World: Lebanon,
Chicago, 1995. pg. 8
3
Culture Grams Lebanon
, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. Provo, UT, 2001. page 1.
4
Lebanon Fact Book CIA
July 2001. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html
5
UN Population Figures Web Site
July, 2002 http://www.un.org.lb/unteam/agencies/unrwa.html
6 Margaret K. Nydell.
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westeners
. Yarmouth, Maine. Pg. 133.
7 Thomas Collelo, editor.
LEBANON-
Country Study
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. December 1987
8
Understanding Islam and the Muslims
. Prepared by The Islamic Affairs Department, The Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington DC. 1989. pg. 3.
9 Karen Armstrong.
Islam, a Short History
. New York. 2000 Pg. 5.
10 Linda S. George.
The Golden Age of Islam.
New York. 1998. pgs. 38-43.
11 Ibid. Collelo,
12 Foster pg. 115.
13 Margaret K. Nydell,
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners
. Yarmouth, Maine. 2000.Pg. 78.
14 According to Oussamia Inati, Number one son-in-law.
15 According to Ellen Lust-Okar, Professor of Political Science, Yale University.
16 Ellen Lust-Okar
17 Several sources including: Foster, Leila Merrell.
Enchantment of the World: Lebanon
. Childrens Press. Chicago, 1995. pg. 115. and, Sheehan, Sean.
Cultures of the World, Lebanon
. Marshall Cavendish, New York, 1997. pg. 73 and,
Culture Grams
pg. 4
18 Sheehan pg. 106-107.
19 Sheehan pg. 104-107.
20
Culture Grams
pg. 3
21 Foster pg. 115.
22 Sheehan pg. 70-71
23 Ellen Lust-Okar
24
Cultures of the World Lebanon
pg. 115
25
Cultures of the World Lebanon
pg. 115-121
26 Jean Said Makdisi.
Beirut
A War Memoir. Persea Books, New York. 1994. Pg.73.
27 Baalbeck Festival Website July, 2002 http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/main.htm
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Ellen Lust-Okar
33 Culture Gram Kids Edition
, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. Provo, UT, 2001. page 4.