How We Build Lebanon — Did You Know?

Through his voice, Lebanon grew great in her eyes.

Zarifa Karam Malik was not like all women: her giving to humanity surpassed the giving of others, so it is her due to be looked upon with reverence, and to have mercies recited upon her name.

★ That all the qualifications for attracting the tourist proclaim Lebanon: in its mountain and its plain, its greenery and its water?

★ And that watercourses, or rivers, have a personality like the weather, with their own tales and stories?

★ That the proportion of irrigated and cultivated land is 30 times less than the barren land?

★ And that the Litani River, the largest of Lebanon's rivers, flows at a rate of 10 years of sufficiency and 5 years of shortage?

★ And that if its surplus waters were impounded so that they should not go to waste....

★ And that if the "Litani Project" were realized, the bounties of its waters could yield, instead of 15,000 Lebanese lira, 15,000,000 Lebanese lira?

★ And that with the use of the Litani's waters, the waters of the Barouk could thereafter be set apart for the districts of the Aley mountain region?

★ That creeping mud, like that which buried Tripoli, if it could be diverted to the plains, would possess goodness and fertility in great measure?