Naoum Mokarzel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Naoum Mokarzel

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1864

Place of Birth: Farikah, Hama Governorate, Syria

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1932

Profession: writer

Nationality: Lebanon

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Naoum Mokarzel (sometimes spelled "Na?um Mukarzil"; Arabic: ???? ?????? / ALA-LC: Na?um Mukarzil; August 2, 1864 – April 5, 1932) was an influential intellectual and publisher who immigrated to the United States from Mount Lebanon in Ottoman Syria.
He established Al-Hoda, the largest Arabic daily in North America and facilitated Arabic printing by adapting the linotype machine to the Arabic script with his brother Salloum.
Mokarzel was a strident and impassioned writer who used his publishing house to print a number of books and to circulate Maronitism and Lebanese nationalism.
He was involved in a number of sectarian brawls and legal disputes particularly with the publishers of rival Arabic New York-based newspapers, and his unwavering stances and criticism of the Syro-Lebanese diaspora community often engendered controversy and politico-sectarian division.