The arrival of Lebanese Kimos and Fakhry to Venezuela. I'm not Turkish, I'm LEBANESE. The earliest examples of modern Lebanese migration date to the 1850s with Anthonius al-Bishalani, who migrated to the United States. However, scholars consider the 1880s to be the beginning of a larger migration phenomenon. A few decades after al-Bishalani set foot in America, Michel Chiha asserted that “we could not be able to live without emigration, but if emigration became too vast, it would be the end of us.” After five waves of emigration, Lebanon today faces just such a dilemma.
LEBANESE - A Levantine Arabic Dialect, https://youtu.be/4ZZ8SBdnFcI. In the 19th century, the Middle East was dominated by the "Turkish-Ottoman" Empire, and Lebanon had been part of this extensive empire since 1517. This represented serious problems for the Lebanese, especially their Christians, who were forced to pay exaggerated taxes, and submit to heavy limitations for their religious practices, for which they proceeded to sell their properties, others to get into debt and boarded ships on the coasts of Sidon, Beirut, and Tripoli in the style of Ancient Phoenicia, they reached the coasts from the Caribbean with permits in hand from the Turkish authorities, and for this reason that the first immigrants, unaware of the Spanish language, are known as Turks throughout Latin America, this statement will always accompany the response of any of them with the following sentence:¨ I'm not Turkish, I'm LEBANESE¨.
Egypt was the first destination for Syro-Lebanese, who were drawn there by its prosperous economy and the freedom of speech promoted under British tutelage. Later on, two large exhibitions held in Philadelphia in 1876 and in Chicago in 1893 had a significant influence on migration, as the Ottoman Empire favored wider participation and representation of the Sultanate in these exhibitions and therefore encouraged Syro-Lebanese to participate.
Lebanese immigration could be historically divided into 2 stages, that of the Ottoman Empire, and the second after the First World War when Lebanon became a French protectorate in 1918. However, the 2 stages of the arrival of Lebanese to Venezuela come from attracted by the same myth, the golden dream of America, a true statement, if we understand it as a metaphor for hard work in the streets of the country as quota vendors.
With their half-Spanish language, they seek to convince the Creole to buy from them, so they reserved their own space in the Venezuelan neighborhoods, getting their neighbors to try their culinary delights, while they sell them by installments, a cut of cloth or perhaps the same tablecloth in they eat, but despite everything, total integration was difficult, even in a country so prone to miscegenation, so the family unit of the Lebanese is maintained, adding this to the close relations between themselves that are generally located in areas determined, and also to the marriage between countrymen, all in a tonic that aims to preserve the traditions of their beloved Lebanon.
Members of the Lebanese Alliance of Caracas (Venezuela) in 1927 were: His Excellency Mr. Daniel Lamaziere, Chargé d'Affaires of France; Second Vice President, Entanios Dager; Jahan D. Dib, member; Secretary, J.M. Abilahoud; Undersecretary, José Yazbek; Treasurer, Asad Kimos Fagre; Assistant Treasurer, Alejandro Haiek Haiek; Vowels; Elías José Abdala, Elías Dager, Baduy M. Abilahoud, Jeandh D. Dib, Esteban Fayad, Marco Kafuri, Assad Yamin, José Assad Kimos Fagre, Nayib Francis, Gerardo Ayub, Pedro Pablo Bulos Solaiman, Hetar Kairuz, Antonio Genatios, José Aljabre , Encarnacion Perez; Correspondent, Salin Francis; Librarian, Pedro Ysa; Guards: José Genatios, Baduy Yunes, Pedro Fagre.
2023: Kimos's 2nd great-grandson is Daniel E. Canelón. Kimos son José Assad Kimos-Fagre daughter Hilda Gladys Kimos-Fakhry son Raúl Jesus Canelón-Kimos son Daniel E. Canelón-Vilagut.
2023: Fakhry's 2nd great-grandson is Jorge Alejandro Canelón Vilagut. Fakhry daughter Adela Fakhry daughter Hilda Gladys Kimos-Fakhry son Raúl Jesus Canelón-Kimos son Jorge Alejandro Canelón-Vilagut.
San José, Costa Rica, February 2nd, 2023, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega, is an engineer and magister, and since recent years historian, writer, and professional genealogist.
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