Name of Object:

Portrait Khalil al-Khury

Location:

Ba`abda, Lebanon

Holding Institution:

“A`lam fi Zakirat Lubnan”

 About The Lebanese University, Ba`abda

Date of Object:

19th century

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Oil painting

Provenance:

Lebanon

Description:

Khalil al-Khuri was born in Choiefat ('Aley) in October 1836. He founded the first non-official newspaper in Arabic, Hadiqat al-Akhbar (the garden of news) in 1858. He also wrote a collection of poems, some of which were later translated into French. He died in October, 1907.

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Painting

Citation of this web page:

Jeff El-Msanne, Hassan El Masri, Remy Nader "Portrait Khalil al-Khury" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;lb;108;en

Prepared by: Jeff El-Msanne, Hassan El Masri, Remy Nader
Copyedited by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: LB 124