According to the latest estimates [2], Lebanon is populated by 4.1 million inhabitants, 87% of whom are city dwellers. If it is the least populated country of the Near East, it is the one which knows one of the highest densities of population, with 390 inhabitants per km ².
The most common categories are the khoubz arabi (discs of the dimension of a plate which open in two, horizontally, when one breaks them), the markouk (round mountain bread, the thickness of a sheet of paper, up to a meter in diameter), manakish (flat bread, covered with finely chopped thyme, sesame seeds and olive oil, baked, which is often eaten at breakfast) and lahm bi ajine (very thin ...
