This famine will cause between 100,000 and 300,000 deaths in Mount Lebanon, or between a third to half of the population, then estimated at 500,000 people. No Lebanese family will be spared and our elders still evoked us a few decades ago, this period when many became orphans. A duty of remembrance is imperative, something … Continue reading Lebanon / History: The Great Famine of Mount Lebanon during WW1