BRAZIL: THE BRAZILIAN WHO ESTABLISHED A LIBRARY IN LEBANON.

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: July 17, 2007 | Copyright information

According to anba: At the age of 12, Phar?s Zoghbi left his native Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil, to live with his uncle in Kornet Chehwan, in the Mount Lebanon region, in Lebanon. Not speaking Arabic and with just a primary school certificate in hands, the boy had to fight to adapt. Today, aged 81, Zoghbi is the founder of one of the largest libraries in the Arab country, Phar?s Zoghbi Cultural Foundation, with over 65,000 books. Most of them are legal, as Zoghbi graduated ...

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