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1.) Lebanon gained independence in 1943, while France was occupied by Germany. 2) The economy's dependence on services has always been an issue of great criticism and concern, as it leaves the country subject to the instability of this sector and the vagaries of international trade. 3) Lebanese performers are among the most popular in the Arab world.

• Add a list of syndicates and orders for engineers, doctors, drivers,... that exist in Lebanon. Most of them have websites.

It list Lebanon's ethnic group as 95% Arab. This is not accurate; Cultural

Are Lebanese Arabs? Lebanon is a mix of ethnic groups. Part of the Lebanese are Arabs; 20-30% of the Lebanese in Lebanon and 10-20% of Lebanese in Diaspora are Arabs(estimates). Most of the Lebanese are the descendents of the Canaanites who inhabited Lebanon from around five thousand years ago.

They were called Phoenicians by the Greeks and Punic by the Romans. When the Muslim Arabs conquered the North of the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century AD, they couldn’t conquer most of Lebanon due to its mountainous nature.

Some Arabs settled in coastal cities and mixed with the inhabitants while some of the Phoenicians converted to Islam, which made them Muslims not Arabs, i.e they changed their religion not ethnicity. The Canaanites/Phoenicians, the Arabs, and the Syriac-Arameans are the three major ethnic groups in Lebanon. Armenians, Greeks, Hebrews, Assyrians, Kurds, Persians and other groups form the rest of the Lebanese community. (for Details)

Source: http://www.lgic.org/en/faq.php#1