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http://www.hiwarat-hurra.com/node/328
Mr. Ziad Saneh, the
principal of the Technical College of Joumeh in
Tikrit, wrote a report on Bazbina and was posted
at http://www.hiwarat-hurra.com/node/328
on April 10, 2013.
Pictures were provided by Mr. Saad Moussa and by
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Hipline of Gabriela and
Samar
Gabriella
Nassar sent to me an email from Berkeley
announcing the success of their establishment,
Hipline. Gabriella and Samar started their
dancing school on College Avenue, Berkeley,
California a year and a half ago. The business
developed fast to a great success. Mentioned
below is Gabrielas email
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Ceremony to Honor Mr.
Issam Fares at the Orthodox Seat at Cheikh Taba,
Akkar.
At an honoring ceremony on
June 28th that took place at the Orthodox
regional seat of “Akkar and Its Environs” in
Cheikh Taba, Archbishop Basilious Mansour
offered a great thanks to Mr. Issam Fares for
his generous and continuous support to the
people of Akkar and towards the development of
the entire region...
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Samar Adib
Nassar performs at the San Francisco Ethnic
Dance Festival
On June 22nd,
2009, The New York Times published an article on
the dance festival that took place in San
Francisco. It was Samar the middle daughter of
Adib and Patricia Nassar who drew the attention
of the spectators by her professional belly
dancing. She flaunted a flamboyant red
brassiere, a wide expanse of bare midriff and a
red skirt starting low on the pelvis. She
demonstrated virtuoso bumps, grinds and rapid
but complexly rhythmical undulations and
isolations of pelvis and ribcage. more
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Alif Afif Khoury
Alif Afif Khoury is
the first son to Afif Mikhael Khoury (Abou Alif)
and to Meriana Mikhael Youssef Khoury from
Safita, Syria. It happened that the Khoury
family of Bazbina came originally from Safita.
After 2 or 3 generations
Afif returned to Safita on a visit and married a
cousin, Meriana.......
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Toufic El Achkar
Toufic El Achkar returned
to Bazbina on 25th May 2009 to attend the burial
ceremony of his mother, Adibeh Chahda, who
passed away in Houston on 22nd May 2009. She
lived for 85 years of continuous strive and hard
work. She was known to everyone as Maalmeh
Adibeh......
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Nabil Khebbazi
We have known each other (Nabil
and I) in Bazbina ever since we were kids. He
was always a staunch supporter and participator
in all the activities in the village. Earned a
law degree from the Lebanese University....
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Malek Abdel Razzak Chdid
El-Mouraby
I have known Malek since we
were kids. Both of us used to spend the summers
in Bazbina and we used to enjoy it very much. I
always loved the fine arts and I got along very
well with those persons in Bazbina who had
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A poem from Adib Nassar
remembering the good life he spent in Bazbina.
Two years back I received a
poem composed by Adib Nassar remembering the
good old days he spent in his village, Bazbina.
Adib, now 57, is a chemical engineer and a part
owner of ......
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Gentlemen
agreement
Witnessing the
various political divisions and the
continuous differences among the people
of the little village that has always
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Mtanios Naassy - Harf Zaed
During my stay in Bazbina
during the Easter holiday in April 2007, I met a
lot of our friends and relatives who converge to
the village to spend the spring holidays. ...
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Massoud and Shireen visit
to Bazbina
In
November 2005, Adib Nassar came over to visit Lebanon
and Bazbina after a long stay in San Francisco.
As Adib thinks of his village as a jewel on
earth, likewise, he talks about .....
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Ben McMurry An American
impression visiting Lebanon
In
June of 2006 my friend and classmate Dr. Wa'el
Hammad came from Atlanta, where he is practicing
his medical profession, to visit Lebanon, his
native land....
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Barbar Moussa (Known as William Joseph in the
U.S.) - Among Our Early Immigrants. Thanks to
Kayte Bell and her mother, Debra Joseph, to have
put the pieces of the puzzle together
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Nayfeh Auguste Nassar –
Bazbina August 2005 Poet
and Artist.
Nayfeh, daughter to
Dr. Auguste Youssef Nassar and Huda Khalil
Nassim, is a promising poet and artist. She is
still at the university in the school of art.
Two samples of her paintings are displayed here
as well as two poems written by her in Arabic.
She also writes poems in French
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خواطر بقلم ألآنسة روى حسن شديد
بزبينا –
نيسان 2005
فلنتكلم بواقعيه
بعيدًا عن المبالغة و التعابير
العاطفيه:
تقولون أننا دخلنا من جديدٍ
عصر الجاهليه
و متى خرجنا منه كي نعود اليه
و الى الهمجيه؟!
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Doctors Hope to Aid
Dominican Baby with Rare Defect
22nd
January 2004
By Jane Sutton MIAMI
(Reuters) - An international team of doctors
hopes to operate in the Dominican Republic next
month to remove an undeveloped second head from
a baby girl born ........... more >>> |
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Immigrants recall homeland
in old Syria at Arnold fete.
By Charles Shearer,
Monday, August 22, 1984 ,
From Carol Farid
Bitar Ofeish, Falls Church, VA 22042, 12th
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Dear Manuel, I am
sending you this picture and the article that
appeared in the New Kensington Daily Dispatch on
August 22, 1977. In the picture from left to
right they are James Kanaan age 87, Sarah Naamy
86, Tillie Kanaan 85, and Charles Joseph (my
husband's grandfather) age 88. ........... more >>> |
at
Bazbina. Under the Zenzlakht tree, in Winter of 1960,
there were sitting left to right: Saad Slaiman (Bitar),
Fayez Khoury, Yaacoub Khoury, Ayoub Feyyod ........... more >>>
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Roots and the Family Tree
- By Alejandro Hazim
Miami 6th May. 2000.
Hi Manuel, How are
you and the family? I hope all are in the best
of health. I'm not very good at writting but, I
was compeled to drop you these few lines. This
may sound just silly but, I felt you should be
praised for the time and effort you are putting
into this project. I personally feel a great
sense of pride saying: ........... more >>> |
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Roula
Karim Nassar mentioned in |
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They Make Me a Designer Again
By JOSH PATNER, February 16, 2003
IR!"
I don't respond. "Sir! Can I help you?" The big Jamaican
bass voice booms in my ears. I don't have my faculty ID.
Turning, I peer at the security guard through
sunglasses, and he nods at the sign-in clipboard for
visitors. As I write V-a-l-e-n-t-i-n-o, I ask myself,
What would anyone who didn't need to be at the Parsons
School of Design be doing here? I'd better get a life, I
think........... more >>>
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