literature

The Phoenician alphabet influenced just about every written language that came after it. Not only was it much simpler and easier to learn than complex cuneiform writing, it could be adapted to a number of other languages. It was also instrumental in shaking up the class structures of ancient societies. […]

May Ziadeh was born in Palestine in 1886, to a Lebanese Maronite father, who worked as a teacher at the School of the Holy Land in Nazareth. After her studies in Deir A-Madina, she enrolled at the Aintoura Sisters School to study in the boarding […]