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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? Languages Included: ر English Spanish Español PrincePrince FakhrFakhr --alal DinDin IIII Portuguese Português Arabic DistinguishedDistinguished DruzeDruze وف أل وف ھي ذ وي رھ اد أء أ ك ا وا ط وذي ... ال “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 --- 220 0 1 5 THe eDITOR ’S DeSK SHAUKI HALIMe , USA اون اروز را ب اق ا ا ا اأ او 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 ITeRATIOAL MAGAZIe 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. EEVE M 9.1, A I L :I DDDS SR U U E Z E 225@ 5 D@DD --- R220 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 --- ...220C 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 ITeRATIOAL MAGAZIe 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 --- 220 0 1 5 RUSSIARUSSIA اون ٌأ َذ اب وا , ُدس ا وا ل إن ار زي اي By: Dr. Ghazi Khaled Masri ا ا درا ا ع ات ا 1983 و ا درا ھ ات ا وا وااد وان ات 1998 ... ا درا ارة ادارة ار اى وا ا ان اا 2005 وج و ا و ار ا اي رس اص ط دا ا اول . در ي و ارة اة. َ ِا أ ع ا وال .. وام .. .. أ .. أ أ و ااء أ اذا رھ أ ٍط ٍ ا ا ھات ا او وھات أو .. .. واة، ام و ا .. أ ء وة ع اأس أ ط َع ا أ أأ َر ال ، ن ال و ا .. .. أ ا أط ا و إ ِا وأ ا ھ ء ن ون و ا أ .. ال و ال .. .. و ُ اً .. أً ُ ات ا أٌ أ اف واا ً أ ن ذو ٍأل وأر .. أ ء أ و اض .. .. و و وآ اط اف وارض واض .. ن در اول ا واه أوً .. أٌ أ رً و ، ،وة ا ع و أرض ف اش اط وار واخ وا ا و ف ھ ام .. وا ام .. .. ا ل او .. .. ٌ َ أ ا ا ا اة أ ا وا وا .. .. وا ، ُم ُو ھ أ أو أ َ ا أ أء ُس ا اون، وف، وام وا إن .. ن أ .. .. أٌ أ اط رً أ أ أ ف ھه ُأل ا ا،ا وان ا وا و أ ف و وا أرء ف و أي ء ار ا وط .