Name: Kfarshima
Address: Kfarshima, Levant & Iraq

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Ibrahim al-Yaziji

Lebanese philologist, writer and journalist (1847–1906), son of the poet Nasif al-Yaziji and a leading figure of the Nahda. He edited al-Najah and al-Tabib, founded the magazine Ad-Diya in Cairo (1898), translated the Bible into Arabic on a Jesuit commission, simplified the forms of the Arabic letters towards the typewriter, and championed an Arab identity bound by language above religion.

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