V 9.1, Issue 25 DRUZEDRUZE INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONAL MAGAZINEMAGAZINE 2015 e of the Druze The Voice o DAWN L FAJR - THE ا A ت ا روز THETHETHETHE DIASPORADIASPORADIASPORADIASPORA ARGENTINAARGENTINA Where are they now? RUSSIARUSSIA Proud of Arab Roots FRANCEFRANCE Story of Estrangement SYRIASYRIA USAUSA MEXICO EMIGRATIONEMIGRATION CANADA Kamil Sarieddine NIGERIA LEBANON WHEREWHEREWHEREWHERE AREAREAREARE PALESTINE WE GOING? and much more WEWEWE GOING?GOING?GOING?
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“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again” EEE M A I L : DDD R U Z E @ D@DD R U Z E W ORLDWIDE ... C O M V 9.1, I S S U E 225 5 --- 2 20 0 1 5 THE EDITOR ’S DESK SHAUKI HALIME , USA ا ون ا روز ر ا ب ا ق ا ا ا ا أ ا و وا ا
My Beloved Druze Society, Inside this issue: CONVENTIONS The Diaspora “the movement, migration, or scattering of a people 11 away from an established or ancestral homeland”. The term diaspora AUSTRALIA carries a sense of displacement the population so described finds itself PRINCE FAKHR AL DIN II 27 29 for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at AWARDS 17, 20 LEBANON - Emigration some point, if the "homeland" still exists in any meaningful sense. 4 Kamil Sarieddine In 2 short years, we will commemorate 1000 years of Druze. While the RUSSIA - Proud of Arab Roots Druze are firmly rooted in the Middle East, due to economic circumstance and 5 Dr. Ghazi Khaled Masri regional conflict many have left and gone on to flourish elsewhere around the world “the diaspora” as you have seen throughout the many issues of this LEBANON - ALEY 6 magazine. Numerous Druze communities have been established around the Diala Arslan Talhouk world. Argentina unfortunately shows us what happens when there is no FRANCE Estrangement 7 strategy for the future, a cautionary tale for us all. Said Obeid ARGENTINA - Dr. Kontar 8 More and more young people look to outside of the Middle East for any NIGERIA - 1000 Years Druze type of successful future. This most certainly is an unstoppable trend, the Hasib Makarem 10 regional stability and future is not getting any better there . LEBANON - Amal Arabi 12 So where are we going and what is the future? These are hard questions PALESTINE that need to be focused on with good answers, everyone needs to be involved to Sheikh Fayez Azzam 13 ensure our future. We cannot spend a lot of time and effort agonizing over what SYRIA - SWAIDA 16 strategy to use. Success does not come from avoiding the difficult things. SHOUF - Faten Ghais 18 Success comes from transcending the difficulties while transforming them Money - 10 Things 24 into a positive value to ensure another 1000 years. MEXICO AMBASSADOR 26 Al Fajr The Dawn Druze International Magazine along with the website LEBANON - Aley Artist 23 www.DruzeWorldwide.com is the one and only voice of the Druze. Poem - Dr. Anis Obeid 14 As we look to the future, together we grow, and forward we go. EVENTS
Faithfully yours, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA 9 Shauki USA - PHILADELPHIA 15 LEBANON - SHWAYFAT 19 CANADA - OTTAWA 21 USA - BOSTON 25 AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E Expect more great PUBLISHER & E DITOR I CHIEF : SHAUKI HALIME headlines in You Tell Us ... 30 DESIG & C REATIVE DIRECTOR : S. H ALIME upcoming issues. What we are about & Contact Info 31 Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. VEEE M 9.1, A I L :I DDDS SR U U E Z E 225@ 5 D@DD --- R2 20 U 0 Z 1 E 5 W ORLDWIDE ... C O M EEE M A I L : DDD R U Z E @ D@DD VR U9.1, Z E W I ORLDWIDES S U E 225 5 --- ...2 20C 0 O 1 M 5 LEBANONLEBANON
EMIGRATION By: Kamil Sarieddine President of the Emigration Affairs Committee
Sheikh Kamil Sarieddine is a successful businessman along with being the President of the Emigration committee of the Druze Confessional Council in Lebanon. Born in Bzebdine, Lebanon from a middle class family, worked with his father in Liberia then came to the UAE in the late 1970’s, and established his construction and building materials companies. Currently involved in real estate development in Beirut.
reasons such as war, education, They say that “it takes a village to work, and what have you. Some have raise a child.” What would it take to It is sometimes difficult to returned to their home country, some raise a community or a nation, I understand how close and how visit every so often, and some have wonder? Yes, all of us every single important communal and family ties established themselves in various member of our beloved community. can be, especially in sustaining a cities around the globe and that has As the Emigration Committee of culture that has been able to thrive become their new home. the Confessional Druze Council, we because of those ties. Our work This migration pattern has invite you to maintain this open through the Emigration Committee impacted our community in Lebanon. dialogue with us, to keep the has focused, and still does, on re We acknowledge the fact that our conversation going. We ask all those establishing ties with members of the home country doesn’t have much to outside to register their children at Druze community across the globe to offer at this time but we still owe this their local embassies to increase our reconnect, rebuild, and reunite. As land, and our ancestors that were its political vote and our influence in we shift deeper into the age of founders. We need to shift our Lebanon. We invite them back, globalization, becoming ourselves attention to the multitude of ways that seeking their assistance, their time, global citizens of this ever changing this land has sustained us, to our expertise, work, or whichever way reality, we have to keep in mind that roots, to our sense of place and they choose to participate in the no evolutionary future awaits anyone belonging. except in association with everyone else. Hence, we need to “re connect” We can choose and to “re integrate” our communities, not to look back or we and this is a huge responsibility can choose to tend to because we have to pass on the the soils of this land , “story” our story, our history, our to plant the right heritage to future generations to seeds for future maintain our united narrative in the generations , t o face of this changing world. advocate for change, for liberation, for Reality has a different set of growth and demands. To be able to sustain sustainability, for oneself, one’s family, and to tend to interconnectedness and the demands of the community, has renaissance of our communities and empowerment. It’s a matter of choice become increasingly difficult. the nation as a whole. Let us work for and we can choose to be present and Unfortunately, the tensions in our a better Lebanon. Let us build make a difference, as a united home country, Lebanon, has led bridges that will eventually become a community. Every voice counts, many people to seek other countries roadmap for those that shall come every effort, and we are all to make a living. Members of our after us, long after we depart. Let us responsible in affecting such change. community have been migrating since time immemorial, and for many (Continued on page 22) 4 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E
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L L I I A A M M This voyage changed a lot of the the of lot a changed voyage This the paper on put to hesitated I In August 1985 the company in in company the 1985 August In the of story the is follow will What was hesitation my for reason The : : : : DDD D E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R D@ D@ @ D D@ FRANCE FRANCE teams, and communities with common goals. E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R W W W W Rulla, & Marwan. Said remains dedicated to Lebanon to dedicated remains Said & Marwan. Rulla, the last 20 years. Said is currently retired focusi retired currently is Said years. 20 last the Graduated AUB with a Master of Science degree. He He degree. Science of Master a with AUB Graduated E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O ESTRANGEMENT His wife of more than 30 years is Nawal Abul Hosn a Hosn Abul Nawal is years than 30 more wife of His The youngest of six children by Ibrahim & Salma Obe & Salma Ibrahim by children six of youngest The who claim to defend the TAWHID TAWHID say I the "tribe". defend Druze the and to pathway of minds claim blame barren who their the two the and and traditionalists from under identity, me original Estrangement put pressures: automatically the of boundaries the two "tribe". or family Druze within to stay to married got attempts unsuccessful after men French daughters my that two fact the gape to This due magnified youth. was and birth of identity the and identity western acquired newly the between gape the social, becomes bigger components; the its fanatic gets East the linguistic more the and and and will identity religious move my this impact that time that the in rom f era. modern politics religion separated West the when and Greek philosophers, the by promoted and fathered REASONING and e LOGIC the h s t n a e adopted p o r u E n e h w only ended which middle the same in wars religious that from ages suffered was had It that West began. the just to acclimatization West of path difficult MY STORY MY OF My approval of the marriages marriages the of approval My at me to occur not did It the Rome, in landed we When ... . M M O O C C M M O O C C
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By: Dr. Sharif El Kontar Dr. Sharif Quintal is a resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 1987, born in El em Tine, Lebanon, holds a degree in Dentistry from universities of USSR 1985. Married to Magda Najib, father of three girls, Carla 22 years with a BA degree in business management and international trade; Lucia 21 years attending college for Engineering Informatics; and Daniela 14 years. Vice President World Lebanese Cultural branch of Argentina.
el pais. En el año 1926, el Emir Cuantas veces nos encontramos fundó en Buenos Aires la con alguna persona que es de origen "Asociacion de beneficencia Drusa" druso pero hoy en dia es un catolico A fines del siglo XIX los jóvenes y fue su presidente y propulsor socio más, bautizado, casado en la iglesia, drusos integraban los miles de politico hasta su muerte en 1943. con hijos bautizados, etc y su inmigrantes árabes que entraron a la religion de origen no le interesa y no Republica argentina, la mayoría de Todos los sectores religiosos de le significa nada . Vale destacar que estos drusos, eran Libaneses y el la colectividad Argentina tenian su uno de los casos cercanos es sobre resto fueron de Siria y Palestina. representación, con lazos directos En la argentina fueron llamados con autoridades de turcos como los demás árabes por su pais de origen, ser portadores de pasaportes o exceptuando los documentos otomanos, los cuales al drusos que no poco tiempo se fueron esparciendo tenian ningun tipo en todo el país, especialmente en las de contacto con provincias norteñas( Catamarca, sus raices en el Tucumán, Jujuy, La Rioja, San Juan, libano y siria, lo etc.). que trajo graves consecuencias En el año 1912 llega a la hasta el dia de argentina el cónsul general del hoy. Imperio Otomano ,el Emir Amin un sacerdote que profesa el Arslan, el cual era un hombre muy El inmigrante druso se integro en catolisismo de apellido Kontar culto, escritor, periodista y tenía la forma plena en la nueva sociedad (apellido originariamente Druso). habilidad de dominar varios idiomas. católica, olvidando sus raices y su Mas de veinte mil jovenes drusos Además tejió lazos con la clase educacion religiosa basica. Este han llegado a la Argentina y politica de aquella época, entre las inmigrante druso que se encontraba desaparecieron en este mar catolico, cuales se destacaba su amistad con solo, alejado de su gente, se casa y lo unico que concervan hasta el diputado socialista Joaquin V. con una chica catolica y forma una nuestros dias es el apellido. Gonzalez, entre otros. El Emir familia, olvidando no solo su origen logró ,por su constante accion, sino tambien su lengua materna y no Esto es un resumen de la unificar y fortalecer la colectividad se empeñaba en enseñar a sus hijos historia drusa en argentina, y no árabe, despues de haber estado nada de la fé drusa , ya que a decir estoy aqui para abrir una causa ya desparramada y desprestigiada por verdad él no sabía demasiado que han pasado muchos años, pero la sociedad criolla , lo que ayudo a tampoco de su religion como para esto fue una catastrofe, una de las que luego se fundáran numerosas transmitirlo a sus hijos. mas grandes de la historia moderna asociaciones y clubes arabes drusa. ( llamadas Sirio Libanesas) en todo 8 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E EEE E thankfulBe for what you have; you'll end up having L L I I A A M M
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أ ا روز ب ھ وا ت وا ت وا ت ا رز ل م 2017 ا و رز ا وا ن ا ز ، ا ا ات ( اذا ى م د ة ا وا ھ ا ا أ ن ذ ) ت م ه ا دور ة ة ح ل ى ور ا ى ا ا ا وز اول أ م ة ا ة ا م ب ا ة ا ا ط ا ﷲ ا ي ة ا ا دف أن ا ى ا ھ إ د أ ن را و ر ا ا ة . أ ر م 2017 ؟ أم إ ج أد ا و ري م ف ا ون ( ا و ن روز ) وا ت وا رة ا ا ون ا روز أ م ا ى ا دم ا ھ م و ء أ ء ا ة ، وا ا ة ز أو ا ة ا ھ ؟ وا ت ا وراءھ وا د ھ أو ا ، ا وا ت ا وا و زا ا ا و و أن و ا ن إ ا ا ا ن ح ا ت ا . . وا و ا . ا ا ار أ م ا ت ا ا رم
(Continued from page 7) scriptures, and those who claimed to be its staunch defenders are , The West adopted Science, intentionally or not, causing a lot of Technology, Freedom to think harm to this great philosophy, and worship, and the Islamic through closing their minds to the world has been going in the realities of life. opposite direction resulting in ample fanaticism and a minimum I am neither calling or of real faith and ethics. promoting mixed marriages, nor demanding to seek converters, After my two daughters, we however, no one can stop the may face the same dilemma with clock from turning. The immunity my son who got married in the of GEOGRAPHY and rural setting community, and whose marriage is something of the past, and here was a total failure that ended in a I call upon myself and those who divorce. Would he stay in after this believe that they are the bitter experience, I hope, though I custodians of TAWHID to have big doubts. As a result we my wife and myself may elect to acclimatize to the realities of life prefer the estrangement in the as Christanity has done and is still West to turning in the EAST into doing, before it is too late. The hostages of those who believe that leader Walid Jumblat demanded, they have "monopolized" GOD, and rightly so, that it is high time forgetting that the TAWHID is not for the Druze community to hold a the faith of the Druzes only. The serious discussion about mixed essence of TAWHID is embedded marriages. Would we listen ??? I in all faiths according to the Druze hope .
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L L I I A A M M The greatThe thing thisin world is not so much where : : : : DDD D E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R D@ D@ @ D D@ E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R W W W W E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O direction we are moving ... . M M O O C C M M O O C C
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أ By: Amal Arabi Amal is a graduate with a degree in English literature and also is able to speak French and Italian. Currently works at Abougoush Studio in the Editing Department and as a teacher at Dar Al Hayat. Her ambition is to be a journalist, enjoys reading, writing, and photography. From Kfarkouk, Rachaiya, Lebanon & believes “in every moment we live, we should make history”
وط ن ا ء ا دة وأ ً ع أ ا ب ا ھ ا ا ده م ا . س أر م و ا ... ر وط ... وھ ر ا ا ھ زواره، و وأ ى، ا ... َھ ا َ ر ... . ا ن وا ن و زا . و ن، ن ذا َ ّ ، ا ا ي زع أ ؤه و . ُ ت ا د ا ا ، ا ع ا رض، ة أ ده م ا .. ب ا ، ھ ا دي آذار ى و أ و ل َ ا ُ ا ق : و ھ ات أ ، ن م ... وھ م أ ا .. ا ر ا م، ھ ا " .. أ "! ا را ً . و د ن إ ا ء و ن ا ار ھ ب. را : " ﷲ ... أو دي ! أر ا ات ا ت ا ر وار ! أردت ً ا ا ة ا ت و ا اغ ا ا ط ا ء . ا ا ن ا ا ا ! و وط ، وأرد أ ء ھ ھ ا ا ب أو ُ ن ا ھ أ اب وع أ ات، ُر رھ ا ا ي ور أھ ا ا رات ر " ا " إ ا ، ب ا رز، أن أ ا ط ً ّ ٌ أ م و أ و ا ا وا م. أ ي.."! ل ً أ ى ھ ا ح ... ح ھ ! و و ... و ء، ا ! دھ ، اً ورو ً. .. و إ ا ًأ ء و زا َ ا ر ... د أ ء وط ِو ُ " ّ ا "!! ا اط ... روا ً ھ و اط ا ا ى ... ورون ن ا ٍوط و ا .
... وا ام!
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وا ا ء رو خ وا ا ، ا و ت ا ا ، وا خ أ و ا د ، و ا ، ا ا ، و ا د ، و أ Though no one can go back and make a brand new star ا و ذا ا ات؟ ھ ه ا ات؟ و ذا ا ھ ها ھ ه ا وا ءات ا ت ھ ه ا د و د ا ھ ه ا ت وا ءات ان ن أ وا أ ن ان و أ ا، ا ه و أ دي أ ا ، أ دي و ا ه أ ا، و ھ ا ا ھ وا ا ، ا وار ي ا ا ، وا L L I I A A M M
L L I I A A M M . ھ و يا ن ، او ھ ، و ي ا ن ا وأ وا ة آ وا ة وأ ا وا ا وا ر وا وا ر وا ا
ھ ا وا ب ھ ا . ھ ا ا وھ ا ا ھ ا . و ن ھ اأ ا أ ا ھ ا أ و ن ا ، ا ھ ا ا و ا ھ ا ا ا ، ه او ا ھ ا ا ھ او ه وا راد ا وا ا وا راد ھ ا ا أ ھ ا ا ا ھ وا ھ ه وا ھ . : : : : وذو وا وا وا وا وا وذو DDD D E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R . ا وا ا ر وا ا D@ D@ @ D D@ َ E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R from now and make a brand new ending. ASFIYAASFIYA ASFIYAASFIYA ASFIYAASFIYA ASFIYAASFIYA
ب ا ؤ ت ا درز و ؤ وھ ، ق دةوأ در ب رك إ دار و ر ر ا دى ا درز دة ل ا د وراه ا ا ر وا ر ف ا درزي ا ذي وي رات آ ف ا و ق W W W W Dr. Sheikh FayezDr. Azzam . . . . . ا اھ E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O
ن ن ن ا ھ ا ھ ا ا .
ا ؟ أم ا أم ؟ . وا ل ا ، إ ان أ ر أ ار وا أ ار أ ر إ ان ا ، وا ل ا ، و ب ا ا و ت ا ا و ب ا ، ا و ، را ﷲ وا ا ، ا ، وا ﷲ را ا و ، وا ف وا ، ل وأ ا ، وأ ل وا ، وا ف ل وزارة ا رف و وع ا درزيا راث ا درزي ا را وأ ا ج، وا ا ج، وأ ا را ذر، أ وأ ر ا اد، وأ ود ا اد، وأ ر أ ذر، ن، أ وأ داوود، ا داوود، وأ أ ن، وا ز ، وا ز ، وا ، ا ا ا ت وا ق ا ، ا و ، وار وا ا ، وار ا و ، ر ز وأ ھ ، وأ ص ھ ، وأ ر ز وا و ا ذ ا و ھ ا ا ذ وا و وا ي ، وا ي ن، وا ف ط ، ورع ط ، وا ف ن، ا ، اتإ وا أر ، وا ات إ ا ، وا أ ط ن، أ ط ن، وا ر وا ا دق، وأ ا دق، وا ر ... .
واط ب ، ا وأ ، واط ب ادري ادري اط، وا رس، وا اط، M M O O C C M M O O C C ا ھ ا
رط وا را د وا ت ن ل ا دروز طق ھم (
ا ان ا ان . ا وا ف ا . داب وا دب داب ا ، ا ا ، ل را ا ر وا ر ا درزي وأ ، وأ ي وا ي ُ ا م ا م وأ وا ُ ا ، ا ، ا ة ) . ا ف ر ل ا ر ل أ ّ أ م و د ر ا ر ا ر . t, anyone can start ا رو ز ة ا ان ا ل ا ا ان ا ز ة ،و ق و ءا وإ اھ ، و ءا ق ، و . ا ر ن و ج و ب ا راث ا درزي ، وأ ى ، او ا او ا ا و او ا ھ ا، و ا ا او ا او ا او ا د ن ھ ا ة ان ط ان ة ا ھ ا د ن ا ر ا وا ت وا ا وا ت ا ا ر و دي ھ إذن ھ و دي By:
ح ا و ا ن، إ ن إ ن ا ن، و ا ح و ل ل أ ھ ؟ أم أ أ أم ؟ ھ أ رو ن أم ؟ و ت و ت ؟ أم ن رو ا ا وا بوا ، ا ق ا رض ا ق وا ب وا ، ز ة ا ھ ا ء ھ ا ا ز ة و ت وھ و ا وھ ت و ب أ ن أ ب ھ ا ي ھ ھ ض، ھ ھ ا ي ھ . . 1985 ا اتا وھ ت ت ت وھ ت ا ات ا
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L L I I A A M M Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and at : : : : DDD D E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R D@ D@ @ D D@ E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R A A S S U U A A S S U U A A S S U U A A S S U U W W W W E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O experiences ... . M M O O C C M M O O C C
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ت ا ب : وا ا ا و دوا إ ا أ أر ا ى : أ ي وا وا ا د ا أة " ا ب " ا م ا ود أ ء آ آ ر آ وح آ ي ّ د وأ وأر . أن أ و ا آ آ وف وآ ي و ا ، و ل " ط ھ " ا م 1897 إ ود ن م ( 1886 ),م ن إ ى ا رك وآ آ ل أھ ن ب ات اء و آ أ أ آ آء ا أ آ آ و ا أة ة. ـ ( آپ ن ) و أ ل ن ل ا رخ " س و ھ آ أ " " ر ا ر و أ ل آ ن و و ا ا ق آ آ ھ آ م ا " ، أن ر ( ط آ ) وآ آ ء ى ز ة آ ن آ آ و ( آ ) , ط ا ا و ُ آ وآ آ روز ا ل، ن ا ر آ ر , و أ ء آ آ ت ث إ ا آ ء آ آ آ آ أ ن ا ء ا ا آ م وآ ء ا ح و ، و و رأ آ ھ ا إ أزوا وإ ، وا ذ إ ا اف وا ا و ة آ ط آ ر آ ا ا اء وإ ا اد ا ل . ر ھ و آ ة أ آ و ل ا " أ ا " " آ و ّ ت أزر آ آ و ّ ا ب ": « وا دور ا أة ا ب ا اد آ ر ً : أرآد آ پ وا م وا " ا رق " " " ا ل و و , و آرة آ و ر ا رب، وظ رھ ا رك ا ر آ ة وآ س. و ا دا ر اد إ ا ل ود دوا ن: ا اء و دة ا ا أ م ا ا ي " ا ة " إ أن ا ز ر ا ء، ى ا ا ا ي ا
16 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E ا ا ا ا وا ي the Lebanese Immigrant Statue with the withthe Statue Immigrant Lebanese the city of Montreal during the installation of installation the Montreal during cityof Canadian Minister of Immigration in the the in Immigration Minister of Canadian many Canadian Government Officials. Government Canadian many EEEEE E E E L L L L I I I I A A A A M M M M
L L L L I I I I A A A A M M M M continues to be verycontinuesinDruzeactivethecommunitybe to Southernretiring to and California in2007 moving over Amira, and children4for with lived his Wife, andotherrespected numerous organizations Commerce Civiltheelectedo war, VP Nigeria moved to to due Lebanesethe wasLeCultural of Treasurer the World headdepartmentPRat Bank. of Al the become World n working ininternational a banking,successful in a isRas AUB, from Matn, Makarem ElMr.graduate of ل ا ء ا ب Sheikh Farid Makarem Makarem Farid Sheikh CongratulationsCongratulations CongratulationsCongratulations CongratulationsCongratulations CongratulationsCongratulations Akene Akene Akene Akene Akene Akene
: : : : : : : : Reflection and action must never be undertaken inde DDDDD D D D E E E E Z Z Z Z U U U U R R R R E E E E Z Z Z Z U U U U R R R R
وز ا ة ا ي ا د ا ا D@ D@ D D@ @ @ @ D D D D@ @ E E E E Z Z Z Z U U U U R R R R E E E E Z Z Z Z U U U U R R R R و ا ي ا ا ي و و ا ي ا ا ي و ا رم ا رم ا ا رم ا رم ا Sheikh Farid Makarem Farid Sheikh years. years. ove for hisservices emigrants in recognitionto of Lebanese Mr.AlejandroUnion”"World Khoury Culture Award Platinum W W W W W W W W with the withthe E E E E D D D D I I I I W W W W D D D D L L L L R R R R O O O O E E E E D D D D I I I I W W W W D D D D L L L L R R R R O O O O
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Local Development Coordinator, Adopt a Cedar Tree Program, Shouf Biosphere Reserve
contribute to the program may do so by Your support is appreciated by involving adopting a Cedar tree which will be the members of your society in the Cedar planted bearing their name as well as a Adoption, and other programs which you serial number. By adopting a Cedar you can find more information about on our The Shouf are not just planting a tree, you are website: www.shoufcedar.org Biosphere Reserve is reaching out to the investing in the future of a beautiful Druze worldwide to draw attention and country, encouraging ecotourism and The Shouf Biosphere Reserve support to one of their main programs in leaving an everlasting inheritance Environmental Highlights conserving and protecting one of the behind. Some of the highest mountains in the most important natural resources and Middle East, providing a full wealth of Adoption includes: cultural heritages in Lebanon, the Cedar ecosystem services including wild tree. The Cedrus Libani Tree, a world A 3 year guarantee: Even though only genes pool, freshwater storage, famous conifer tree, and one of the pure breeds home grown plants are climate mitigation, hydro geologic mostly cited plants in history, religion and used, if for any reason your Cedar balance, and aesthetic/leisure value mythology. The Cedars were featured in does not survive, another one will be the earliest written records of the planted in its place. The largest stands of Lebanese Sumerians as well as the Epic of Accreditation: All of Cedars Forever's Cedars, one of the World’s great tree Gilgamesh almost 5000 years ago. activities are accredited and approved icons by the competent authorities. Cedars Forever Program Come to Life A free membership for life in the Rich flora and plenty of medicinal Shouf Biosphere Reserve with an plants with high potential economic The Cedars Forever program was value developed to ensure the continuity of the identification card Cedar a species in danger of extinction, Adoption certificate. Interesting wildlife with a good in order to restore Lebanon's mountains Free entrance to the Shouf Biosphere potential for restoration through the to their original glory. Cedars Forever is Reserve twice a year reintroduction of charismatic species doing so by the reforestation and such as Ibex, Gazelle, Vultures, etc planting of Cedar trees in Lebanon, The Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR) starting from Barouk, a forest which was declared a UNESCO biosphere A crossroads for bird migration, Reserve in 2005.The reserves’ area is constitutes a major part of the Shouf strategically located on the routes about 5 % of the total territory of Nature Reserve and expanding out. between Europe, Africa, and West Lebanon. Individuals and organizations wishing to Asia
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L L I I A A M M of circumstance and compel us to take responsibilit : : : : SHSH W W A A YF YF A A T T SHSH W W A A YF YF A A T T DDD D SHSH W W A A YF YF A A T T SHSH W W A A YF YF A A T T E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R D@ D@ @ D D@ E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R W W W W E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O ... . M M O O C C M M O O C C
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LIFETIMELIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTACHIEVEMENT AWARDAWARD
Mr. Shauki Halime "Giving of any kind...taking an action...begins the process of change, and moves us to remember that we are part of a much greater universe."
The ADS Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to a candidate who has been involved in the Druze community at large, promoted the cause of the Druze (Social, Educational, Charitable, and Economical), and made contributions to improve the quality of life of the Druze people. He/She must be involved in other community work, belong to different social, charitable, and civic clubs. This is a lifetime achievement award, and should not be based on one event, one year, or one act. The candidate should have demonstrated his/her actions and deeds through years of outstanding support for the advancement of the ADS. He/She should be highly regarded and respected as a role model by his/her peers.
The American Druze Society ational President, the ational Board of Directors, the Executive Director along with countless Family and Friends, extend our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Shauki Halime for his social, educational, economical and charitable contributions in the American Druze community at large. It is because of individuals such as Mr. Shauki Halime that the ADS is what it is today vibrant, strong & a permanent fixture in this great land. Congratulations!
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L L I I A A M M OTTAWA OTTAWA OTTAWA OTTAWA : : : : DDD D E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R D@ D@ @ D D@ E E Z Z U U R R E E Z Z U U R R W W W W E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O E E D D I I W W D D L L R R O O you discoveryou who are.you ... . M M O O C C M M O O C C
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Central Meeting Place! Many thanks to brother & friend Mr. Sami Kadi & his lovely wife Bana for their kind hospitality by bringing the Druze Society together and opening their home for the whole Lebanese community in Southern California. Sami continues to energize the community at large by continuously organizing a variety of community events and graciously includes numerous individuals in the area. He has dedicated his time, talent and energy towards developing relationships within the Southern California community to maintain the Druze role in the area at large. Through Sami we have met a wide variety of Lebanese, as his home has become a central meeting place for everyone!
(Continued from page 4) paving the way for a more inclusive the Druze Community, within his or and productive society. her capacity, whether at home or reconnect and reintegrate this is our abroad. I invite you all to be bridge Unfortunately, this dream has mission to be “whole once again”. builders, members creating become a long term dream due to the possibilities, active individuals working My dream was to form, with the lack of collaboration, within and for the unity of our community. collaboration of all those who are without, and to the political instability working for the betterment of our in Lebanon and the Middle East. community, a powerful Druze lobby However, I am still hopeful that it will consisting of Druze from all parts of materialize one day with the efforts of the world, men and women, in order the younger generations moving to the to help and assist the new forefront. If we can dream it, we can generations in education, to care for make it happen as nothing falls in the the elderly, and to create work realm of the impossibility. opportunities artisan workshops if It is the moral obligation of every you will in villages and remote areas, Druze, young and old, male and female, to strive for the presence of 22 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E EEE E L L I I A A M M
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Money has been with us for # 1. Health would not pinch hit for your self thousands of years. It has become a respect? Evil, because it would not let vital element in our lives, to the point Man. Because he sacrifices his health in you enjoy your depravity? Is this the order to make money. Then he where without money, you can literally root of your hatred of money?" Ayn die. sacrifices money to recuperate his Rand health. And then he is so anxious Money was originally invented as a about the future that he does not enjoy # 6. Peace of Mind unit of account, a measurement tool, the present; the result being that he used to estimate the value of goods and does not live in the present or the Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or possessions. future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never build meaning into a life that has none. Before the invention of money, really lived.” – Dalai Lama Richard M. DeVos people used to trade quantifiable goods they had an excess of, for other # 2. Love # 7. Ethics measurable things they could not It’s good to have money and the things harvest, make or grow. Trading was the If you want to distinguish between those who love you unreservedly, and those that money can buy, but it’s good, too, only way people had to get access to to check up once in a while and make vital resources, critical for their survival who love your money, try losing all your money. – Jordi Alemany sure that you haven’t lost the things and protection, such as food, animals, that money can’t buy. – George tools, and fabrics, which they could not # 3. Happiness Lorimer get otherwise. Money has never made man happy, nor # 8. Education As societies expanded, and trading will it, there is nothing in its nature to transactions became less homogenous produce happiness. The more of it one Humans aren't as good as we should be and more complex, the trading system has, the more one wants. – Benjamin in our capacity to empathize with collapsed. This situation forced the need Franklin feelings and thoughts of others, be for a standard unit of measure, which they humans or other animals on could help homogenize the value/cost of # 4. Integrity Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in the heterogeneous goods being traded To give real service you must add between individuals or communities. empathy. Imagine how different the something which cannot be bought or world would be if, in fact, that were measured with money, and that is Ironically, thousands of years ago, 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' people struggled to assign standard sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Neil deGrasse Tyson trading values to quantifiable stuff. Adams # 9. Intelligence Today people seem to struggle to # 5. Respect distinguish between the value of Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to Money is your means of survival. The things, and invaluable things. make a fortune. I've been very lucky in verdict you pronounce upon the source my life and already have one. When I Our educational system, combined of your livelihood is the verdict you was 25, my net worth was $100 million with our current socio economical pronounce upon your life. If the source or so. I decided then that I wasn't going doctrines, has lead most people in this is corrupt, you have damned your own to let it ruin my life. There's no way you planet to see money as an object of cult, existence. Did you get your money by could ever spend it all, and I don't view fraud? By pandering to men's vices or creating what some authors call the new wealth as something that validates my “Money Culture”. men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in intelligence. – Steve Jobs the hope of getting more than your 2015 is a perfect year for reflection; ability deserves? By lowering your # 10. Spiritual enlightenment an excellent occasion to rearrange our standards? By doing work you despise Money can buy a house, but not a home. priorities, and to set up new goals. A for purchasers you scorn? If so, then unique opportunity to make an your money will not give you a It can buy a bed, but not sleep. It can introspective analysis of our real values, moment's or a penny's worth of joy. buy a clock, but not time. It can buy a principles and beliefs. Then all the things you buy will book, but not knowledge. It can buy become, not a tribute to you, but a blood, but not health, so you see; The list below is a compilation of money is not everything in life. reproach; not an achievement, but a wise quotes and statements on the top Unknown 10 things money can´t buy. reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it 24 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E EEE E L L I I A A M M
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laid the ر ا د ن ا The National painting “ Battle of Anjar ”. It’s the battle where the Lebanese Prince Fakhreddine foundation for establishing the current Lebanon. For the first time the prince gathered the various Lebanese groups under one cause; Lebanon, the place for everybody to live in freedom. Battle Anjar in 1623 showed the importance of unity. Outnumbered 5,000 men against 12,000 men which included ottomans, Syrians and other factions, he won a decisive battle. Since that battle the Lebanese understood that they are a nation. Fakhreddine in pictured on black horse.
(Continued from page 27) alliances and increased authority was too great as he could become a serious threat and sent a large military force to power, allowing his return to Lebanon, whereupon he was Lebanon. able quickly to reunite all the lands of Lebanon beyond the This time, the boundaries of its mountains The prince had decided to first thing he did was to exact remain in Lebanon and revenge on Emir Yusuf Pasha ibn resist the offensive, but Siyfa, attacking his stronghold in the death of his son Akkar, destroying his palaces and Emir Ali Beik in Wadi el taking control of his lands, and Taym was the regaining the territories he had to beginning of his defeat. give up in 1613 Sidon, Tripoli, He later took refuge in The remains of Beaufort Castle Bekaa among others. Jezzine's grotto, where (Shqif Arnon): where Fakhreddine stashed his fortune. Fort built by the In 1623, the Prince angered the he surrendered to the Canaanites under the Romans, also Ottomans by refusing to allow an Ottoman general used by the Crusaders, it was an army on its way back from the Jaafar Pasha in 1633. impregnable fortress oversees the Persian front to winter in the He was taken to Litani River in South Lebanon. Bekaa. This (and instigation by the Istanbul and kept in powerful Janissariy garrison in prison for two years. Sultan Murad IV summoned him and Damascus) led Mustafa Pasha, accused him of treason, ordered him executed with one or Governor of Damascus, to launch two of his sons on April 13, 1635. an attack against him, resulting in He is the most famous Prince of the Levant and Lebanon Portrait of Fakhreddine the battle at Majdel Anjar where while he was in Tuscany, in particular, many historians consider him the greatest Fakhreddine 's forces translated as "Fakhreddine: national figure known to Lebanon during the although outnumbered Great Emir of the Druze" sixteenth and seventeenth century. He managed to capture defended his homeland and was considered the Pasha and secure the Lebanese prince and the great unifier of the country. He declared his allies in a much needed military victory. The his country’s liberty, equality, and famous Battle at Majdel Anjar is captured in sovereignty, while also moving his country painting above. This victory allowed him to forward with bringing modern culture, expand and oversee all of Lebanon, Syria, Renaissance Art and Literature which he Palestine and East Jordan. In order to maintain had experienced during his exile in Europe. control over such a vast area, he controlled a large well trained army and built Castle in Under his rule, he encouraged the opening Antioch, Palmyra is still known today as the “son of schools for the dissemination of science; of Maan Castle” and a number of others. printing presses were introduced and Jesuit Sultan Murad IV, sultan of priests and Catholic nuns encouraged to The Ottomans realized that his popularity, the Ottoman Empire from 1624 until 1640 (Continued on page 29) 28 www.DruzeWorldwide.com HOME OF AL FAJR THE DAW DRUZE I TER ATIO AL MAGAZI E WWW W W WWW W
tolerance to all religions he maintained hemaintained religions all to tolerance mosque in Mount Lebanon. With his his Lebanon. Mount With in mosque Mosque in Deir al Qamar, the oldest oldest the Deiral Qamar, in Mosque ee eeal cnet ne hs edrhp s e d he as rulings. religious leadership their oppose his under content generally were an Sunni which Jews, Christians, openly allowed. worship not previously of freedom granting with along renovating castles and towers. towers. and castles renovating along channels extended and roads expanded bridges, land. the throughout schools open to allowed also 28) page from (Continued cultures and peoples, he he peoples, and diverse cultures experienced having and education broad a had He him. before centuries ten the for epcfl f h rlgoiu mnrte ad honor and minorities religionious leaders. the area. the of in respectful minorities religious the toward view EEEEE E Sidon Marine Castle: or "Sidon Castle" or "Sea Cast or "Sea or Castle" Castle: "Sidon Marine Sidon E E of stone a by castle bridge to mainland the related Do not stop thinking of as life an adventure. You h impregnable. Fakhreddine added a big gun to prevent big a addedgun Fakhreddine impregnable. L L I I A A M M
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