Niqula al-Turk
Niqula bin Yusuf al-Turk was a scholar, historian, and poet at the court of Amir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar. Of Greek descent, he accompanied Napoleon's expedition in Egypt and wrote an account of it, which was translated in French by Desgranges as Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte. Gaston Wiet has published his memoirs as Chronique d'Égypte, 1798-1804. Al-Turk died, blind, in Dayr al-Qamar.
His daughter, Warda al Turk, was also a poet.