Faris Nimr

Following his graduation Nimr worked at the American College in Beirut as a lecturer.^[6] There he taught chemistry, and one of his pupils was Ilyas Matar.^[7] he was a member of the free mason organization.^[7] In 1876, he founded the monthly Arabic popular science magazine Al Muqtataf with Yaqub Sarruf in Beirut. They both moved to Cairo in late 1884 where they continued publishing Al-Muqtataf with great success.^[2][8] They managed to restart the magazine after they were permitted to resume its publication by the British authorities in Egypt.^[8]

In 1889, Nimr founded Al Muqattam, an Arabic, Cairo-based daily newspaper with Yaacoub Sarrouf and Shahin Makaryus.^[2] He became member of the Egyptian Senate.^[2] As of 1918 Nimr was a member of the Syrian Welfare Committee of which other members included Suleiman Nasif, Haqqi al-Azm, Rafiq al-Azm and Fawzi al-Bakri.^[9]

One of Nimr's daughters, Katie, married George Antonius, an author and historian.^[10] British diplomat Sir Walter Smart married his another daughter, Amy.^[11] Nimr's sister, Maryam, married Shahin Makariyus who was a merchant and the founder of a magazine entitled Al Lataif.^[12]

Nimr died in 1951.^[3][13]