Kfarshima is a town in the Baabda District

Baabda District

Baabda District , sometimes spelled B'abda, is a district in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, to the south and east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut...

 of the Mount Lebanon Governorate

Mount Lebanon Governorate

Mount Lebanon is one of the Governorates of Lebanon. Its capital is Baabda. The overwhelming majority of its population is Maronites, Greek Orthodox, and Melkite Greek Catholic Christians...

, southeast of Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

. Kfarshima is the birthplace of the composer and musician, Philemon Wehbi and the singers Melhem Barakat

Melhem Barakat

Melhem Barakat , also known as Melhim Barakat, is a Lebanese singer and song-writer. He is nicknamed by his fans as Abou Majd. Melhem Barakat started his career back in the 1960s, Barakat has arguebly established a genre of his own in both the way he sings and composes, which makes him one of the...

 and Majida El Roumi

Majida El Roumi

Magida El-Roumi was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon, on December 13, 1956. She is a Lebanese singer and a soprano, who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio El Fan on Télé Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer...

. Also the Birthplace of the Philosopher Shibli Shmayyel (Chibli Chemayel). Its was also the hometown for Lebanese singer Issam Rajji

Issam Rajji

Issam Rajji was a Lebanese singer and song writer most prominent from 1970s and 80s period....

.
The town is populated by Lebanese Christians: mainly Melkite Greek Catholic and Maronites

Maronites

Maronites , is an ethnoreligious group in the Middle East that have been historically tied with Lebanon. They derive their name from the Syriac saint Mar Maron whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria establishing the Maronite Church....

, with smaller communities of Greek Orthodox and Protestant (Evangelical) Christians.
Kfarshima was subject to heavy bombing during the Lebanese civil war

Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an estimated 150,000 to 230,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people were wounded, and today approximately 350,000 people remain displaced. There was also a mass exodus of...

 since it was a primary fault line.

Education

Eastwood College

Eastwood College

' is a private school in Lebanon. It operates two campuses on the outskirts of Beirut. The first campus, which opened in 1973, is located in Kafarshima, the second in Mansourieh. The schools Motto is "Children, our Purpose and our Future".-History:...

EWC,
Ecole Saint Maxime,
Lycee Adonis,
Kfarshima Official Middle School,
Kfarshima Official High School.

External links

• http://www.kfarchima.com/