Praise for Prominent American Lebanese Page

Hi Rami .

how are you , my name is aqeel hajer i from Iraq, i live in chicago aim studying my master in Interior Design, i used working with Al Ray newspaper in Jordan and AL Nahar too and AL Zamman newspaper in Landon and the Arab Time magazien, i am also photographer and painter and i used working with UN as war combat photographer, you can loge on my web at www.aqeelhajer.com. I like your web alot, I think that, I am so glad to see another person like me how care allot about his culture and try to have the public focus on that most beutafull and oldest culture in the world. Thank you for doing that and keep up, if you need any help email and i well be glad to help.

Thank you again.

aqeel hajer
Sun, 16 Nov 2003

i saw your website and i loved it. i'm 21, half lebanese half guatemalan ... i have been looking everywhere for arabic resturants and clubs.... your photography takes me back to lebanon, i have visited there 2 times to see my family in tripoli, where my father is from. my husband is mexican, and is very interested in the arabic culture and he was the one that actually found this website and told me about it..

please continue to show the world our culture....... it is very enlightening for people that know nothing about it:)

-Noor Khodr Oropeza

Fri, 1 Apr 2005

Dear Rami,

Hope all is well.

I was trying to look for Anssar's lyrics on the web, and i found your website. i think you have a vision of peace which we miss these days in this world and you are trying to do something about it. i thank you for that.

I was wondering if you can help me by sending Anssar's Arabic lyrics. i was shocked to see it only in English as i thought it should be posted in Arabic. Can you also tell me who wrote the poem, is it Marcel or someone else?

I think all people should read it in Arabic.

Thank you again.

All the best,

Rami Takrouri
Amman-Jordan

Dear Rami,
My name's Josh and I was born and raised in Oklahoma, America.....I just wanted to say thank you for all your kind observations about America. Just out of curiosity, have you considered getting citizenship here in America? From what I read on your website you really enjoyed your stay. All 7 years of it. Heh heh heh. But anyway I guess I'll let you go now.
Sincerely,
Josh Sturgeon

i want to be on the mailing list
im roni dooumit and i live in sweden. i wish to know everything new and old
about the lebanese in and outside lebanon.
i study middle east studies and i'm sweden's Amnesty middle east expert.
thanks alot i wish you all the best

Rami and team,

What a sensational website !

Forwarded to me by a Lebanese/Australian friend who only recently began discovering his 'roots'.

I've visited Lebanon several times recently and I'm continually astounded by our people - despite the chaotic mealstrom that Lebanon is, despite it's paradoxes of poverty/wealth, savagery/beauty, violence and tranquility - we remain a hospitable, charming and resourceful people with an unwavering will to not only survive, but flourish.

Congratulations on your efforts of documenting our history, our current achievements and your vigilance over the ever evolving Lebanese story.

Please put me on your mailing list

Regards

Ed Hanna
Sydney, Australia

I read your website with great interest and wish you the best of luck with
it. What a worthy and important mission has AMALID! I am enriched by the
time I have spent on your site. And, I love Rumi and grew up with poems from
"The Prophet." You see, we are not so different after all!

Asalamu Alaikum

Hi. My name is Meelad Al-Arashi and I'm an American of Yemeni descent born and raised in Houston, Texas. I really like your site Amalid.com. Just wanted to say good job and keep it up!

Meelad

Dear Webmaster,

Congratulations on the excellent idea!!!
I come from Ashrafieh and live in Vienna, hope we can save what remains of our nice heritage.

Good Luck
Eliane Masry

Mon 4/15/2002

Dear Sirs...
I have just receive an e-mail, talking about many famous lebanese-american
people whom were and still decorating The US Land by their actions and
lifes...it had sent to me, and i have searched about whom wrot it, I find
your site , and I guess you are the one whom prepare it..Thanks for
that..it's really a Great Work...

Rita Ayoub (relative of Prominent Lebanese American Fred Maroon).

Comedian in L.A. of Lebanese Descent. Previously performed with entertainers such as the late Danny Thomas, Casey Kasem, Michael Ansara, and the late Vic Tayback (Mel on "Alice" sitcom.) Performed at Comedy Store, Improv, Laff Stop, LA Cabaret, HBO special, past host of AATV in LA. Listed in John Mose's book, How the Lebanese Advanced Civilization.

I was very happy to learn about your site, one name crossed my mind which I
did not notice in your list, the name is Dany Tomas the comedist.

Thanks for listing me with other policitians of Lebanese descent. I just did a websearch on my name for the heck of it, and came upon your site. I noticed a fellow with a similar name: Steven Kfoury (a common varient of my name) city council president from Lawrence, Mass.

Thank you for a nice site.
"Cabbalah" is not an esoteric teaching. Also known as "Maasrei Breishit" (study of creation) it means "hard" to understand and study portions of the knowledge of the Bible (Tanach, primary Tora). The second comes from the fact that a lot of people share the opinion that first 3 paragraphs of the Tora, the portion about Creation is actually the hardest one. Examples of very advanced "Cabbalah" - names of angels, study of the creation, Names of G-d and their meaning, structure of the jewish prayer, gematria etc. Most of the popular books concerning "Cabbalah" make it sound to be a way to call up the demons/Satan/Angels. Most of such practises are a grief sin, because they include worshipping angels, which is idolatry. "Popular Cabbalah" is a very dangerous and usually has absolutely nothing to do with real Cabbalah.

I want to congratulate you for the effort and the results you have achieved in producing the list of prominent Lebanese Americans. Your work I am certain will help maintaining pride in our heritage and ancestral home as Lebanese Americans who have and continue to contribute to the general good and progress to their Homeland America.
Now that you have undertaken the task of identifying the prominent Lebanese Americans, I would like to suggest that through the circulation you have bring together individuals from across the US who are of Lebanese descent who are willing to provide input about the Lebanese American community in their neighborhood. About the community's numbers, prominent individuals, prominent civic contribution etc.. creating a data bank about Lebanese Americans.

Adel Ziady

hello
i am a journalist,lebanese,married&living in C.A,i want to thank all of u for the great effort u obviously put&still are,we truly need to let the whole world know of how proud we are in our great lebanese heritage.i hope u can do workshops for our growing generations,in lebanon as well as around the wold,it would surely be the second step to re-unite the lebanese people,for the sake of LEBANON & ONLY LEBANON.
the first step u guys have taken it couragesly by doing this list.
i &my husband & i know many lebanese thank u &encourage u to move forward.

"Hi ,
I love your site, it is real eye opener.
My grandmother was from Lebanon.
So I found your site very interesting.
I sent you my website so that you could check it out.
Hope you liked.
Keep up the great work!
Love
Nadine"

WOW!!! as a lebanese american surfing the web, I must say...Your site was a shocker!!! My grandfather came here in 1890...Parents born here,I was born in NJ...would love to see my ancient homeland one day...Have a desire to communicate to all I know, the beauty of Lebanon and its people vs what they see and hear! JOHN ELWAY!!! never heard that one, Can you substantiate that? if so please do...Already have my Irish american friends reeling over Flutie!!! thanks...

I am extremely impressed by both your "Problematic Verses in The Koran" and by the Amalid. I am feeling very humbled right now and hope you will allow me to have some ongoing correspondence, regardless of where either of us works and if I am correct in assuming the Amalid invites plain Americans who are not of Lebanese descent to learn more of the culture.

I must tell you that Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" was my mother's favorite book. When I just read his poem "Dead Are My People", tears came from my heart.

Hello rami,
i just visited this page, amalid.com, by mistake, and i have to tell you is
that i was really shocked at what i have seen, i am really very very interested in what you have done in this page already. What i liked most is how much you are devoted to your country and all the arab countries, well i do not know if you are lebanese or palistinean yet, but anyways i do not care, as long as you are from this beloved land! And what is obvious too is that you are not how do we say it, maybe sectists, or prejudiced, means you are not mouta3assib, and this is very important! Well i am Najwa Hamzeh, i studied for 15 years in RHS and now i am for an electrical engineering at the AUB. If i could be of any help to you or to promote this page i am more than
ready. Thank you, i just felt like saying what i have said, so i did not keep
myself from shouting it loud!
Thank you once again, and i hope to keep in touch
sincerely,
najwa hamzeh

AGAIN I AM LOOKING AT YOUR AS TO SAY SCRAPBOOK I CANT BELIEVE MY EYES WHAT I HAVE BEEN READING IVE BEEN TO MANY LEBANESE SITES BUT NOTHING AS THE LIKES OF THIS IVE HERE TWO HOURS AND STILL NOT FINISHED BUT I WILL SEND THIS SITE TO EVERY LEBANESE AMERICAN THAT I KNOW OF THERE ARE MANY LEBANESE AMERICAMS ON THE EAST COAST THAT NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED INTO YOUR PAGES BUT MAYBE A LITTLE LATER BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW THERE IS A LEBANESE MUSEUM IN EITHER DETRIOT OR DEARBORN MICHIGAN?
ACCOLADES GOES TO ALL OF YOU BLESSINGS

HASSAN MOUSSA - August 20, 2001

i enjoyed your site, but it reallly misses many famous people look into whos who in american sicence whos who in sicence whos who in engineering

among the physicists are myself george a. kyrala, AKA George amine
khairallah from bhamdoun] who is listed in 9 whos who, an atomic physicists with a Ph.D from Yale and fellow of the SPIE. I just won an international prize for high speed photography. Also see Ghassan Antar at the university of california in Sandiego, a plasma physicist

Great stuff here, my friend Joe Loli, and I ( Mike Ganim) are both lebanese and now think we have a chance.

"It was a real surprise when my son found my name on your site, as he was surfing the web. Thank you for including me in such a prestigious list. I am indeed proud to be a Lebanese-American.
I did not see my good friend Edward J. Elum, Jr. on your list. He is a Judge on the Massillon (OH) Municipal Court. You can check with the AAI, I believe they include him in their list.
Thank you again for your fine site.

Tim Bryan

Councilman, Massillon Ohio"

"I think this kind of page is really important, and you doing a pretty good job by just putting it online. Because we all must not forget that we're from Lebanon, even for those who've never been there. Lebanon is in our blood more than under our feet!

I enjoyed your site. There are many sites on the Web that list celebrities of Lebanese descent, but your site is one of the most comprehensive I've seen. Keep up the good work.

Great list and a treat to see some people I didn't realize were of Lebanese
descent. Keep up the good work.

Hi Rami
I read your list of famous Lebanese and it's full of interesting surprises!
I wanted to point out that Selma Hayak the actress is Lebanese-Mexican, and
Bill Ferris, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities is too.
salam
Greg Shehadi

Thank you all for the encouraging words. These emails are our greatest pay off for our effort put into this site.