Dhour El Choueir

Dhour El Choueir ضهور الشوير
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Dhour El Choueir Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°54′43.32″N 35°42′32.54″E / 33.9120333°N 35.7090389°E / 33.9120333; 35.7090389Coordinates: 33°54′43.32″N 35°42′32.54″E / 33.9120333°N 35.7090389°E / 33.9120333; 35.7090389
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Mount Lebanon Governorate
District	Matn District
Elevation	1,200 m (3,937 ft)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code
Dialing code	+961

Dhour El Choueir (Arabic: ضهور الشوير‎) is a mountain town in Lebanon ('dhour' meaning 'summit, top [of a mountain]'). It lies slightly north of the main Beirut Damascus highway. It overlooks the city of Beirut and the Mediterranean sea. It is 30 km from Beirut and 42 km from Beirut International Airport.

It is one of Mount Lebanon's most favored summer resorts. Dhour El-Choueir is important for its August yearly carnival, honoring Lebanon's emigrants.

The Greek Catholic monk Abd Allah Zakhir set up an Arabic language printing press using movable type at the monastery of Saint John at Choueir, the first home made press in Lebanon. He personally cut the type molds and did the founding of the elegant typeface. He created the first true Arabic script type in the Middle East. A prior "Arabic" press at the Maar Quz?hayy Monastery in Lebanon had transliterated the Arabic language using Syriac script. The first book off the Zakhir press was in 1734; this press continued to be used until 1899.^[1]

It is the birthplace of Anton Saadeh who founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party^[2] and of Tanios Bou-Nader Khneisser, the father of the Sword & Shield Folkloric Dance.

The town was on the front line during the Lebanese Civil War.

Edward Said a Palestinian Writer and Philosopher was a resident of Dhour El Choueir.

References

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External links

• Choueir.com