Kfarshima (Arabic: كفرشيما), also spelled Kfarchima, is a town in the Baabda District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate, southeast of Beirut and is part of Greater Beirut.
Kfarshima was subject to heavy bombing during the Lebanese civil war since it was a primary fault line.
Kfarshima is the birthplace of the composers musicians and singers, Philemon Wehbi, Halim el-Roumi and Melhem Barakat, and the singers Marie Sleiman, and Majida El Roumi.
In 2023, Amir Hlayyil, ethnographer and poet from Kfarshima, translated in Lebanese the final excerpt from James Joyce's "Ulysses".
“Final Excerpt from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ in Lebanese : Manuscript Presentation and Philological Commentary.” In Rosa Damascena : Oriental Languages and Literature Studies, edited by Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Arkadiusz Płonka, and Sebastian Gadomski, 211–34.