Francis Marrash
Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (1836 – 1873 or 1874), also known as Francis al-Marrash, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance. He is considered to be the first truly cosmopolitan Arab intellectual and writer of modern times. His writings were the first examples in modern Arabic literature, according to Salma...