Population Statistics for Lourdes. Lourdes is represented in the Top 1000 exclusively as a girls' name. Total* Population in Top 1000: 10655 (0.00% male, 100.00% female) [source] Popularity of the name Lourdes for Boys.
Literature: Zahrah the Windseeker. Zahrah the Windseeker is the debut novel of Nnedi Okorafor, published in 2005. The story is a Science Fantasy set on the fictional planet of Ginen, where people live in, with, and by the plantlife, growing not only their food but their houses and their computers.
Zajal is a form of oral improvised colloquial poetry performed as a semi-sung debate between different Zajjalin. Joseph al-Hashem, better known as Zaghloul al-Damour (The Nightingale of al-Damour, a town south of Beirut), is the most famous of the second generation of Lebanese zajal poets.