Charles Corm was a Lebanese writer, industrialist and philanthropist.
13 Facts About Charles Corm
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Charles Corm is considered to be the leader of the Phoenicianism movement in Lebanon which ignited a surge of nationalism that led to Lebanon's independence.
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Charles Corm is considered one of the most influential and awarded Middle Eastern writers.
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Additionally, Charles Corm, whose father Daoud Charles Corm was a teacher and mentor to the young Khalil Gibran, was the French translator of Gibran's English masterpiece The Prophet.
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Subsequent to the meeting, Charles Corm secured the Ford Motor Company dealership for the entire Greater Middle East region at a time when Ford Motor Company was the only car maker in the world.
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Charles Corm's enterprises became the livelihood of thousands of families and contributed to developing the infrastructure and networks of roads, railways and bridges in countries that had not yet even come into being.
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In 1928 he designed Ford Motor Company's Middle East Headquarters, later to be named "The Charles Corm Building and Gardens", with no formal architectural training.
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Charles Corm's wealth made, the man who had been referred to as "the reluctant tycoon" decided to devote his life to literature and philanthropy on the occasion of his 40th birthday.
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Charles Corm helped finance several Lebanese state buildings and entities including the Lebanese Parliament, the National Museum, the National Library and other state and cultural landmarks at a time when the nascent Lebanese state lacked funds, freshly independent from its French mandate status.
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Charles Corm personally financed the Lebanese pavilion at the 1939 World Fair in New York City, for which Mayor LaGuardia made him Citizen of Honor of New York City, the highest distinction given out by the city.
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Charles Corm was born in 1894 in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of the famous Lebanese painter Daoud Corm.
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Charles Corm graduated from the Oriental Faculty at Saint Joseph University with high honors.
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An uncommitted bachelor for most of his life, Charles Corm finally married Samia Baroody in 1935.