Kfeir

Kfeir كفير
City
Kfeir Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°25′46″N 35°44′26″E / 33.42944°N 35.74056°E / 33.42944; 35.74056
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Hasbaya District
Elevation	900 m (3,000 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Kfeir (Arabic: الكفير) is a small village nestled 900 m above sea level, in Hasbaiya District (Qada'a), an administrative division of Nabatiyeh Governorate (Mohafazah) along the steep slopes of the top of the  Jebel Sheikh in Lebanon.

The village enjoys mild summers of an average temperature of 25°C. However, the winters are much colder and the village receives heavy snow. Kfeir's high altitude allows fog to form above the hills even in summer, giving the village a mystical and spiritual scenery.

The inhabitants of Kfeir are Christians and Druze, and they mainly cultivate olives, pines and other fruit trees.

Notable people

• Firas Hamdan, one of 12 independent politicians who emerged from a mass anti-government protest movement in 2019.^[1] Hamdan was hit in the chest by a lead pellet in 2020 during a demonstration near parliament, days after a deadly explosion struck Beirut's port.^[2]
• Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese novelist.
• Fares al-Khoury, Syrian politician.
• Issam Abou Jamra, former Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon.
• Assaf Abu Rahhal, Lebanese journalist killed in the 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
• Fadi Abou Jamra, Politician and a professor.
• Rajeh El Khoury, Journalist, columnist, poet.

References

Sources

• St. George's Youth Organization in Kfeir

External links

• http://www.kfeir.com/
• Kfayr Ez Zait, Localiban

This page was last edited on 24 July 2023, at 18:32