Printing and journalism and their intellectual impact on Lebanon 1610-1920

Abstract

: Printing and the press in Lebanon are the most important aspects of freedom of expression, thought and authorship. Thousands of religious, historical, philosophical and scientific books are printed. Presses in the construction of Arab thought and brought it out of its former isolation and openness to the Arab heritage and the publication of modern literature, and intellectuals, writers and writers met on its pages, as it awakened minds and moved minds and ideas and saw the Lebanese with the movement of progress made by other nations that preceded them to progress and advancement, despite the small number of inhabitants Lebanon, and the smallness of its geographical area, has exceeded its intellectual gifts by far as a basis for research and represents an influential requirement for purposeful scientific studies, given that it is a living source for the majority of the media, intellectuals and thinkers of that stage and the formation of their orientations on their various affiliations, projects and writings, which contributed to the enrichment of laying the correct foundations for the study of Lebanon's intellectual and political history Since its inception, in all its directions, the diversity of its giving, its enlightening contributions, renaissance, and progress in various activities.