Martyrs' Day (Lebanon And Syria)
Martyrs' Day (Arabic: عيد الشهداء) is a Syrian and Lebanese national holiday commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha, also known as 'Al Jazzar' or 'The Butcher', the Ottoman wāli of Greater Syria. They were executed in both the Marjeh Square in Damascus and Burj Square in Beirut. Both plazas have since been renamed Martyrs' Square.
Read more about Martyrs' Day (Lebanon And Syria): History: The Rise of Nationalism in The Beginning of The 20th Century, The Public Execution of Arab Nationalists: May 6, 1916, Consequences of The War, Current Day
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“All day I’d looked in the face
What I had hoped ‘twould be
To write for my own race
And the reality;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)