As a proportion of the total population, more people died in Greater Syria than anywhere else in the world during the First World War.
In Mount Lebanon, a semi-autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire, a third of the population died of famine and disease.
As part of a BBC series looking at stories beyond the trenches, BBC Arabic's Carine Torbey visited the region to recount a story of suffering and survival.
ww1 Beyond the trenches - Lebanon
“The famine of Mount Lebanon”
In Mount Lebanon 200,00 people perished during World War One. Not from armed conflict, but starvation and disease.
As the project lead, I worked on shaping the style and tone of each episode. I focussed on scripting, visual treatment, delivery and the social media strategy.
The series ran online in bespoke WW1 iWonder Guides as well as BBC Two and BBC News.
Presented by Carine Torbey
Directed, filmed and edited by Chris West
Second camera John Boland