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From: Matar, Nabil [mailto:Nabil.Matar at valero dot com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:17 AM

It is so sad to inform you that last Sunday we lost a wonderful Shweiri a great man and a dear friend Mr.Salim Bou Chebl. Salim always loved Shweir very much. All the years he spent in USA he  never forget  his roots.

Salim was an Shweir Secondary School (SSS) and AUB graduate.  He was always a top supporter to every little project we did to help our town.

May god rest his soul in peace 

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Interview w Reema Samaha's dad Joseph on CNN
Reema's grandparents in Beirut mourn her loss
Posts about Reema's loss from the dance community
Read and participate on Shweir BB about Reema
Interview with Reema's dad by Dateline 
Interview with Reema's brother Omar on CNN

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Iliya Fareed Harik

July 20, 1934 – Feb. 24, 2007

A special service will be held in Dhour at Mukhaliss Catholic Church, (Saha), Sunday March 4 at 10:30AM. 

It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of Iliya Harik.  Iliya loved Shweir, his roots and he and his wife Elsa and his family are great supporters of Shweir and Shweir.com.  Iliya was a leading expert on Mid East studies and authored dozens of books.  A few months ago, Iliya Harik announced his new web site about Lebanon:  www.voicesforlebanon.com .  Such announcement remained on Shweir.com home page.

Iliya's loss is not only a great loss to family, friends and colleagues who knew him, but a big loss to Shweir, Lebanon, USA and the world. 

A quick search of Iliya Harik on Google yielded close to 1000 links in half a second. 
Books, lectures and or articles by him included topics such as: 

Politics in Lebanon, Economic and Policy Reform in Egypt, Cultural Identity and Negotiated Diversity, Foreign Affairs, Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East...

Iliya's wife, Elsa Marston, wrote children's books and books and articles on Lebanon, Phoenicia, the Middle East and Shweir.  www.elsamarston.com  

Iliya died unexpectedly of a massive heart attack in the middle of the night.

If you wish to read or write a post on the BB, go to: http://www.shweir.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52

There will be a prayer mass in Dhour Shweir on Sunday for Iliya. 

Elsa and Fadya Harik will send more info that I will post.

Anwar

At right, is an announcement from newspaper in Lebanon.

Below are excerpts from Elsa's message and an announcement from Lebanese American University, LAU:

Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:09 AM
Subject: Announcement re Mass for Iliya Harik

"We had just come home from a very private prayer service with Iliya at the funeral home...how interested Iliya would have been to know about your phone call, and the interesting Shweiri connections!   I shall always think of him at moments like this, he was so enthusiastic for Shweir and its people and for life itself.

Here is the announcement for the mass that is being held for him this coming Sunday, March 4, at the Catholic Church in the main square.  Your cousin, the priest (who is very close to Iliya's family), is saying the mass.   Possibly you can put this on the website now;  I'll be able to send you the obituary as soon as I write it--I hope by tomorrow morning.

With kindest regards and appreciation of your sympathy,

Elsa

From: Walid Moubarak   wmubarak (at) lau (dot) edu (dot) lb            
Date: February 26, 2007 5:18:31 PM GMT+02:00
To:   all (at) lau (dot) edu (dot) lb              

Subject: Dr. Iliya Harik

 Dear Colleagues,  It is with great regret and sorrow that we inform you about the passing away of a great friend of LAU, Dr. Iliya Harik. Dr. Harik, who died at his home in Bloomington, Indiana of a heart attack, was professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University, and an internationally renowned scholar of Middle East politics and economics. During his periodical visits to Lebanon he contributed tremendously to the development of LAU's program in Political Science/International Affairs. In addition to donating scholarly books from his own private library to the University, he taught several graduate seminars on democracy and globalization. Dr. Harik was recently in Lebanon on a Fulbright program to help LAU to set up a Middle East Center for Democracy. His unexpected death was a great loss to all of us at LAU and its Social Science Division.

Funeral services took place in Bloomington on Sunday 25 February.

A special service will take place in Dhour Shweir, Lebanon, at the Mukhaliss Catholic Church, Main Square, (Saha) on Sunday March 4 at 10:30AM. 

Condolences will be received after the service and on Monday  from 10:00AM to 6:00PM in Hotel Dhour Shweir, Main Square.     May his soul rest in peace.

Iliya's LAU Friends and Students

Below is copy of Obituary that will appear in local papers in USA: 

Iliya F. Harik

A man of two cultures, Iliya Harik, professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University (I.U.), died unexpectedly but peacefully at his home on February 24.  Born on July 20, 1934, in Lebanon, to Farid Harik and Saleemy Sawaya, he grew up in a family of modest means but close affection, in the beautiful mountain village of Dhour Shweir.  After graduation from Shweir Secondary School, he attended the American University of Beirut, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy in 1956 and an M.A. in Arab Studies in 1958. 

A British Council scholarship provided him a year at the London School of Economics, after which he studied with the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in 1964.   His dissertation (later published by Princeton University Press) was on “Politics and Change in a Traditional Society: Lebanon 1711-1845.”  From 1964 until his retirement from teaching in 1998, he was affiliated with Indiana University (I.U.) in Bloomington, with frequent sojourns in the Middle East and North Africa for research, teaching, consultancies, and other projects. 

Dr. Harik taught courses on Middle Eastern government, political theory, the politics of development, and comparative politics.  The course he enjoyed most—and that his students especially enjoyed—dealt with political expression in novels about Third-World countries.   A hallmark of his work was the creative exploration of new approaches to political theory and reality.  He sought to challenge conventional wisdom and to stimulate new thinking on contentious issues. 

He was probably best known as a scholar, publishing many works in the field of political and economic development in the Middle East.    Some book titles are The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of an Egyptian Community,  Economic Policy Reform in Egypt, and Democracy and the Paradoxes of Cultural Diversity.    He edited or contributed  to numerous other books, as well as publishing many articles in journals and newspapers. 

Along with his U.S.-based career, Dr. Harik felt a strong calling to contribute to intellectual and political discourse in the Middle East, especially Lebanon, and therefore aimed much of his writing at Arabic-speaking audiences.  This took the form of several books in Arabic, including Who Rules Lebanon?, Democratic Theory and Challenges of Modernity:  Western and Islamic Perspectives, and The Arabs and the New International Economic Order, plus articles and monographs.  He served as visiting professor at universities in Lebanon and Cairo, and was a frequent participant and speaker at conferences in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S.   His poetry and fiction, published in Arabic, reveal a further dimension of his engagement with the cultural life of his homeland. 

In addition to his teaching,  Dr. Harik helped establish and directed I.U.’s Middle East Studies Center (1980-83). On leaves of absence, he served as director of the American Research Center in Egypt (1990-92), was a visiting professor at Cornell University (1978-79), and directed the education and social science program of the Ford Foundation in North Africa (1974-75).   He served on the first board of the newly founded Middle East Studies Association (1973-76),  the Middle East Journal, and Journal of Arab Affairs.   

Following his retirement from teaching in 1998, Dr. Harik continued a varied and vigorous program of writing, with a new book in progress at the time of his death.   He undertook occasional teaching in Lebanon, lectured at the summer institute of the European University in Florence, Italy, and participated in at least one conference every year.   His most recent consultancies focused on the establishment of a center on democracy at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, and the founding of a Kuwait American University.   A new project just getting started at I.U., of which he was one of the original planners, is a series of lectures promoting dialogue and conflict resolution in the Middle East. 

A beloved member of the Bloomington community, Dr. Harik was an avid tennis player, enjoyed theatre and concerts, and delighted in his regular lunch meetings with friends from a variety of disciplines.  As a widely-respected public intellectual in Lebanon, he was deeply involved in the life of the nation.  He counted among his friends in Lebanon many of the country’s leading poets, writers, and politicians.  His example of integrity, civic engagement, and compassion has inspired generations of students and friends here and abroad. 

He is survived and sadly missed by his wife of 47 years, Elsa Marston Harik, and three sons:  Ramsay, a teacher living in Boston; Amahl, a fitness studio proprietor in Providence, Rhode Island, and Raif, a software engineer in Austin, Texas.  Other close family members are his granddaughter, Savannah Harik, of Walpole, MA;  his sister Fadia in Medford, MA, who holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University; and several nephews and nieces in the U.S., most of whom studied at Indiana University.   In Lebanon he is survived by his mother Saleemy, now about 101 years of age; his sister Linda, formerly owner of The Terrace restaurant in Bloomington;   his sisters Laudy, Angel, Ilham, and Laura; and his nephew Kamal Abi-Saleh and niece Hala Abi-Saleh, an I.U. graduate.   His family losses are his father Farid, his brother Najib, and his sister Muna, a former I.U. student. 

A memorial program is planned for Saturday afternoon, April 21^st, at the University Club, I.U. Union, with details to be announced later.  Everyone will be welcome. 

Dr. Harik’s family are exploring ways to commemorate his career as teacher and scholar, probably by furthering education in Lebanon—especially  for students who, like Iliya Harik himself, would not have been able to pursue their education without substantial help.  Those who would like to make a gift in his memory for a project of this sort may contact Elsa Harik  (1926 Dexter St., Bloomington, IN 47401; email in code to minimize spam:  harik (at) inidiana (dot) edu;  812-332-3881.) 

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Afifi Baaklini
in Houston, Texas on February 1, 2007
 

We regretfully announce the passing of our beloved
 Afifi Toufic Nasr Khneisser,
survived by her husband Chebl Baaklini,
her son Elie, her daughter Marie wife of Souheil Khneisser,
her daughter Amal and her children Karim and Corinne Berberi,
her brother Joseph Nasr Khneisser and his family,
and the family of her departed sister Marcelle Sawaya.

Funeral Service will be held at
Our Lady of the Cedars, Maronite Church
11935 Bellofort Village Drive, Houston, Tx 77031
On Sunday the 4th of February 2007 at 2:30pm

Condolences via email to her son Elie:
in code:  eliebaaklini (at) hotmail (dot) com

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to any
St. Jude Hospital or to Our Lady of the Cedars Church in Houston.

"When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
you shall see that in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Khalil Gibran

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Shehadeh Moujaes
Dec 21, 2006

Husband of Mary, Father of Waleed, Nissrine, Rawan and Samer Moujaes

I just spoke w/Waleed today Dec 22.  He is taking a flight to Lebanon this afternoon from the East Coast. 

To express condolences by email to Waleed -
email is in code:  wmoujaes (at) wowway dot com  

More info on Shweir BB: http://www.shweir.com/cgi-bin/bboard/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001943

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In Memory of  Joe Corban in New Zealand

-----Original Message-----
From: Fr George Bosauder [mailto:bosauder@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:19 PM
Subject: Sad News

 With regret I wish to inform you that one of the Corbans have reposed in the Lord:

"CORBAN, Joseph Annis. MBE.  On Thursday 7 December, 2006, at home, supported by his family.

Dearly loved husband of Patricia; loving and loved father of Robyn, Mark, Bruce and Michele; loved and respected father in law of Warwick, Jill, Helen and Innes and awesome Ghiddy of Richard, Ivan, Brigitte, Joseph, Madelaine, Sophie, Hannah, Emma, Claire, Katelynn and Aidan-Lee.

Finally at rest. Joseph will be at home from Monday 11 December 2006.

Funeral Service to be held at 11.30 am, Thursday 14 December 2006, at West City Christian Centre, 4341 Great North Road behind the Glendene shops at roundabout.  Wm Morrison Funeral Directors"

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July 1, 2006

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Abdallah Michel Shaya Khnaisser
In France

Service prayer will be this Sunday at Mukhaliss in Saha

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Dec 16, 2005
Genevieve Moujaes Mirhij,
widow of former AUB professor John Mirhij

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From: "Leila Melson"
It is with great sadness that I share with you the loss of my mother Genevieve Moujaes Mirhij. She died on December 16, 2005 There will be a funeral mass to-day, December 20, 2005 at the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA at 7 p.m. and the burial service in Greensboro, NC on December 22 at 2p.m. at the Westmininster Gardens' chapel.
Friends and family are welcome to attend.
May God bless her soul.
Leila

For those who wish to express their condolences via email, you can send your message to Genevieve's daughter, Leila Melson.  Her email in code (to prevent spammers) is:   Lmelson  (at) wfubmc (dot) edu   - of course, you need to delete blank spaces and brackets "( )", change the "at" to @ and the "dot" to "."

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The following are posts about Mama Rose prior to her leaving this world...

Author	Topic: Tribute to Mama Rose - Rose Nasr
Victoria Member Member # 26   posted 03-24-2005 10:12 AM                    Do you all know who Mama Rose is? She is Rose Nasr, the Mother of Tallet Dahdouh. I saw last summer at the retirement home and I was so happy to see her. She is 100 % pure love, tough love, which a lot of people need. We grew up on her coffee with hal that she prepared with one hand. She looked out unselfishly for everyone and "told it like it is". Mama Rose your legacy is engrained in our hearts. One tough lady with one arm raised generations and all of the mista'jrin on Tallet Dahdouh. Mama Rose, we love you. Moujaes: Ghada, Soulaima, Sami; Jabir: Khaldoun, Morhaf, Fayez; Nawas: Tarek, Wael; Diamontes: Alecco, Vassily; Hallak: Cico, George, Nina; Mattar: Charlie, Katia, Caroline; Matar: Rima, Elie; Sheikh: Maya; Ayoub: Ghassan,Bert, Marie-Rose, Talal; Rizk: Sami, Salim, ... that were just a few of the kids. Posts: 287 | From: San Jose, CA, USA | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged
Soulaima Houcheime Member Member # 127   posted 03-24-2005 10:39 AM                    Mama Rose!! She is living in Baytna these days i visited her too with Victoria last May My eyes where in tears to see this great LADY, talking to me as it happened yesterday about every little detail: when my daughter Maya felt down when she was 2 years old,....many more. Mama Rose is well treated at Baytna. ALLAH Ya3tioun al 3afiyeh the ladies who are helping our elderlies and may God realizes their wishes where ever they go and what ever they do. Mama Rose is the tough woman with a BIG HEART; She is the IMM for talet Dahdouh. She is the person that nobody can forget. She is like the aunt in Summer time who used to work and prepare el mouneh for the winter. She is the PULSE OF THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINE that keeps us we the children of talet Dahdouh resist the hard days of war. we learn how to bake mar'ou', how to mix Zaatar, how to choose the onions, 3adass, hommous...for the mouneh. and in the same time how to be creative and live a nice, good life among the beautiful nature of Dhour and around the cute little garden of hers where she used to plant all kind of flowers with her very artistic way. God give the people a treasure is to get old. and if you really deserve a good life, God provide you lovable people to take care of you. Mama Rose i am happy for you because you are surronded with people like always. You took care of people and God knows that people will take care of you too. Like Victoria was counting the children of the Taleh i will add also all the neighbors who visited your 2ahweh (balcon el jami3)where all the a3yed where celebrated, christmas, easter, ramadan, 3id el fiter, 3id mar el elias, 3id el salib, 3id essaydeh, 3id mar ta2la, 3id el bchara, ....Mama Rose kanet with all the ladies, Najah, my mom, Laurice, Sania , Najek, Salwa, Georgette, 3ala toul hadrin hatta el woulad yikounou mabsoutin , and eat all the desert for every 3id. min Soulaima Hally Ma btinsikeh Posts: 78 | From: 1628 Branham Ln , San Jose, CA 95118 | Registered: Jun 2002  |  IP: Logged
Webmaster Administrator Member # 5   posted 03-24-2005 02:58 PM                       What a nice tribute. Although I do not know Mama Rose, this is an excellent example to acknowledge and honor our elderly while they are still with in body and mind. Would love to see school assignments of young students interviewing their elders, recording their stories and the wealth of information about town and family history and preserve the precious information for future generations. Anwar Posts: 711 | From: San Francisco, California USA | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged
Soulaima Houcheime Member Member # 127   posted 03-24-2005 04:28 PM                    Anwar Yes, Mama Rose is a good mentor even with her tough ways of given orders, but if you follow her words or ideas, you will realize that she possess the truth with a big heart. with her you close your eyes and follow her step. Losing her left hand didn't keep her without any ambitions. I was amazed how she used make Mehchey Kousa ( Zoukini) and empty the small lebanese Zuccini very well without any holes unlike any other woman with 2 hands if she emptied the zucchini at least 1 or 2 are with holes!!!!  with one hand, Mama Rose was able to do anything she wants. nothing will stop her . God gave us THE MIND TO THINK and to use it very well. HE gave us Two FEET TO STAND UP and KEEP our eyes looking upwards to the BLUE SKY behind the CLouds. GOD creates us this way. if a hand was lost , a foot or a finger or losing sights, the head is always high as our ambition and SPIRIT. Same as MAMA ROSE. She had everything. I admire her. SOULAIMA Posts: 78 | From: 1628 Branham Ln , San Jose, CA 95118 | Registered: Jun 2002  |  IP: Logged
Elias Khonaisser Administrator Member # 21   posted 03-24-2005 07:17 PM                    But of course, however, i call her Tante Rose or Teta Rose. She is tough but has a great heart. Poor Baytna is all i can say  If anyone sees her, give her my very best please. Elias Posts: 1153 | From: Chicago, IL | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged
Nabil E. Matar Member Member # 11   posted 03-30-2005 06:29 AM                    This is an email send to me from my good friend Riad Khuneiser Nabil I read what Victoria and Soulaima wrote on the BB about Mama Rose. Please tell them both, I love them for that. This is the kind of writings, which I love to see on the BB. If everyone writes about our good people, simple ones or great, about anything good in our town, and there are plenty, we will be doing much for our young and for ourselves. I wish you could ask Nora to write something about Mama Rose from another corner; "Summer in Dhour El Shweir and a hard working women". This would give an idea about beautiful summers in Dhour and how we all used to earn our living. Posts: 918 | From: Groves, Texas USA | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged
Samar Kiame Member Member # 227   posted 04-06-2005 03:57 AM                    Hello everyone Victoria, Soulaima… me I do not know Mama Rose but after I saw this tribute, actually I said I must do something to make her feel that she is always in the mind. Me I have a grandmother and I love her too much and I know how much these persons need love, make them feel our love… in other words, I printed out your tribute and went to her… _“who are you?” , she asks. ( good question, who am I coming to her, I didn’t saw her before) -“bint Adel Kiame” -“Adel el li7em?” -yes, I’ve bring to you some messages from persons who love you and send you their love and regards. -Please read for me, allah ykhallike While translating, when I arrive to the names named by Victoria that is her who named them all, she named you all and says: “hawdeh wledeh” ( they are my children). Mama Rose (me too I want to call her like this), sends you all the following words: “I want to see you all, I miss you all, I want to hear about your news. Come to see you before I die. I am very sick, I feel the pain in all my body, I am so weak. I want to know how is Nora now, and Soulaima Houchaimeh… I want to see you before I die. Victoria, I love you so. These are my children. That is me who elevated them… I miss you all” When I open the door to leave, she asks me to come back: “do you have their pictures?” _“no” -“tell them to send me their pictures, I want to see them”. Mama Rose send to you all her picture, whatever I talk about this short meeting and what she left in my heart, you, the children of tallet Dahdouh, you will express better then me. There is a History in her memory. Today I am going to visit her again after she asks me to write the translation of this topic and send it to her. If you see this web will be very good to tell her about you, your children, your life, the news that she like to hear about you…, then I am asking you to open a new topic where you write for her and if you give me your trust I will send it to her. Regards Posts: 65 | From: Shweir | Registered: May 2004  |  IP: Logged
George Matar Administrator Member # 4   posted 04-06-2005 07:22 AM                    wonderful, Samar, your are a gem baby. I believe we need to invest in a computer and an internet connection for Baytna, that way pictures, letters, communication can be seen immediate, and hopefully with the help of people like Samar, or volunteers from the High school. Communication with loved ones would be as easy as today's Samar's message Posts: 1971 | From: Houston, Texas USA | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged
Victoria Member Member # 26   posted 04-06-2005 09:44 AM                    Samar, I am so happy that you went to meet Mama Rose - Rose Nasr and she knows me as Ghada Moujaes, bint Nora and Salim. I added Victoria to my name because I was constantly spelling my name and it is not practical at work. Tell Mama Rose that I miss her coffee with hal, when I used to wake up really early to have sibhieh with her, Nour and the other ladies from the building. Also, She would make Mneish with sommak and onion. Yum, Yum. She used to have a gorgeous garden that she used to cultivate with love and plant all kind of flowers and vegetables around our khaymeh. Mama Rose used to start her summer as early as April. Why, she would move in to start the garden and little by little, each weekend all of the tenants of binayet Salim & Nora would spend their weekends by May, we all would be driving back and forth from Beirut each day to school. Spring and Easter would jump start it all too and Mom would make brioche and petit-fours. There were rituals all year long, even in September when the Moms would prepare the Mouneh and Mama Rose would have already found the best prices for: Onion from Tarshish, Garlic from deir shoumrah, burgul from Yazbeck, fruits for compote and mrabah, but no one made rob banadourah except for Jiddo Dahdouh. Teta and Jiddo Bou Najib would make lahmeh bi dehn and as they cooked it, they would put potatoes in the jamr and what can I say; YUMMMY.... Samar, I send a lot of kisses to Mama Rose to all the elderly of Dhour Shweir and please tell them that no matter where we travel all of the moughtaribin have memories like mine and these are the loving memories that keep us alive in the ghorbeh. Even remembering every argument bring smiles to all of us in this ghorbeh. Also, please remind Mama Rose how all of the kids use to run around the building screaming and repeating "Mama Rose Maghloubeh",when she lost a hand of tarnib, Thanks to our coach Elie Abou Rizk. Mama Rose was an avid Tarnib player. Do they have Tarnib tournaments in Baytan? Love, (Victoria) Ghada Salim Moujaes-Mapar These are all memories engrained in my heart and my mind. Posts: 287 | From: San Jose, CA, USA | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged
Soulaima Houcheime Member Member # 127   posted 04-06-2005 10:16 AM                    Ya Samar God give you strength!!! i can add to Victoria (Ghada) that your email touch deep in my heart The Story of Mama Rose is as simple as you see, lot of CARE, TRUST, LOVE, SINCERITY, ....AND A LIFE IN A PURE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, I cannot explain it more because it was almost our daily life. The people who understand it have to be a part of our life. we witnessed the best childhood on the talet Dahdouh i wish this kind of life for the 2nd generation to come away from the modern plastic snobbish materialistic feelings. Mama Rose Maghloubeh!!in cards but never away from our heart because she is a real GHALBEH (winner) Samar my best regards to you !!!! Thank you Posts: 78 | From: 1628 Branham Ln , San Jose, CA 95118 | Registered: Jun 2002  |  IP: Logged
Frankie Goodson Member Member # 111   posted 04-06-2005 12:51 PM                    This is the most wonderful story I have ever heard! Tell her I love her too. My grandmother came from Shweir(I think.) Would it be possible that she might have known her? Anyway, I am adding her to my family. My grandmother's name was Saida (Awad) Abraham Makhoul. Posts: 204 | From: Little Rock, AR. USA | Registered: Apr 2002  |  IP: Logged
Nabil E. Matar Member Member # 11   posted 04-07-2005 06:42 AM                    Dear Samar, Ya Ammo you are really some thing and Adel ought to be proud to have such a wonderful daughter. I can’t wait to go to Shweir and see you in person God bless you ya ammo [ 04-07-2005, 06:42 AM: Message edited by: Nabil E. Matar ] Posts: 918 | From: Groves, Texas USA | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged
Webmaster Administrator Member # 5   posted 04-07-2005 02:04 PM                       Samar, you are a jewel. Samar sent pictures that I posted on the Family Tree web page: To see pictures of Mama Rose, click: http://www.shweir.com/family_tree.htm#Rose%20Nasr Anwar Posts: 711 | From: San Francisco, California USA | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged
Habeeb M. Nacol Member Member # 15   posted 04-08-2005 08:21 AM                    Who said that is no greatness left in Shweir? Mama Rose is a living proof that all is well with us. What greater legacy one can leave that is better than what mama Rose is leaving. Look at the wonderful testimony that is given to her above. Personally, this thread, as far as I am concerned has touched the inner soul more than any other thread that I have read in this marvelous web page. Thank you Victoria for starting it, and Samar, you are absolutely wonderful. Please Samar tell Mamma Rose that this Child of Birj Dahdooh is so sorry that he grew up, left, and missed being one of her children. I guess I have to be satisfied by having the privilege and honor of just knowing her. This in itself is such a wonderful gift. God bless you mamma Rose. Habeeb ibn Victoria. Posts: 803 | From: Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A. | Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged
Elias Khonaisser Administrator Member # 21   posted 04-08-2005 08:25 AM                    Guys, I belive Samar has earned Shweirieh of the month award. Very nice Samar, bravo 3layke  Elias Posts: 1153 | From: Chicago, IL | Registered: Mar 2001  |  IP: Logged
George Matar Administrator Member # 4   posted 04-09-2005 08:54 PM                    This is best post of the year so far, the way it started and the way Samar brought it full circle. It does not get any better than this. I am sure this has brought happiness to so many people.... After all this is what this web page is all about, and this is exactly how to utilize it... Well done Posts: 1971 | From: Houston, Texas USA | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged
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