Emily Fares attended school in Beirut at the time where there was a great French impact, so she was vigorously presented to emblematic sentimentalism and to crafted by traditional scholars like La Fontaine, Molière, Racine and Corneille, and authors like Henry Bordeaux and Paul Bourget.
Many famous Lebanese authors influenced Ibrahim's enlivening to Arabic literature, including: Gibran Khalil Gibran, Elias Abu Shabaki, Yousef Ibrahim Yezbeck, Ameen Rihani, Amin Nakhle, Mikhail Naimy, and the leading female writer of the thirties, May Ziadeh.
[2] Her early marriage did not stop her from becoming a zealous activist in social movements where she gained the confidence and trust of her colleagues through rewarding her society with great knowledge.
Some of her many contributions are reviewing the first conference to shed light on women's issues in 1922 conducted by princess Najla Abi Lamaa the proprietor of ‘Al Fajer” magazine.
[1] Apart from being a feminist, a poet, and a literary writer who wrote extensively about women's activism in Lebanon, she was the first woman to run for elections.
During one of Zahle's election parties for example, in which she was supposed to address, some of the attendees attacked her by throwing ink at her, which sparked a massive wave of condemnation in the attendees against this heinous practice, and when she was asked to wash her face before going up to the stage, she insisted on facing the masses as it is, and began her speech, saying: "I will fight colonialism in all its forms, right and left, and I will not withdraw from the electoral battle, nor will such hideous immoral attacks affect me, but I will continue my campaign activities until the end.
"[3] The reaction of the people of the city Zahle was that they went out in a large demonstration, roaming the town's streets, denouncing the incident in support of Mrs.