Dedication

FOR THEIR INVALUABLE SUPPORT IN PROVIDING HISTORICAL INFORMATION, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT, THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK EXPRESSES GRATEFUL APPRECIATION TO:

Linda George Anter
Anne Shibley Bird
Michael S. Caraboolad
George Caraboolad
Lucille A. Courey
Naissef and Rita Anter Courey
Helenie (Mrs. Khalil) Farage
Lenore Haney Flynn
Henry George
Burt Haddad
Isabel A. Haddad
Josephine H. Haddad
Wedad Mouhaissan Hasan
Barbara (Mrs. Attulah) Jacob
Rose (Mrs. Abdatlah Suri) Joseph
Carolyn Kaim Koury
Sister Mary Loyola
George & Nora Macron Maloof
James Dodman Nobel
George and Fredericka Parmelee
Jaber & Victoria Ellis Said
Raymond Shibley
Lucretia Stoica

Dedicated with Gratitude and Love

To my father, Michael Elias Haddad, the head of our house, and to my mother, Eugenie (Jennie) Bowab Haddad, who was its tender and courageous heart; to all those loving parents, grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles, aunts and cousins who yearned and struggled to give today’s Americans of Arabic heritage a home in freedom; and to the children dwelling in the “house of tomorrow,” who are the fulfillment of the promise.