The Haddad family, written down
A stone house above the terraces, the olive harvest, and thirty-eight years of letters.
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Salma Haddad
Salma Haddad (1933–2015), Teta, married into the stone house in the mountains at twenty and ran it for sixty years: the kitchen, the terraces, the olive harvest, and a correspondence with São Paulo…
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The Stone House in the Mountains
Built by Fouad's grandfather around 1895 from the limestone of the hill it stands on, with the red-tiled roof and the triple-arched window that every house in the village has and every Haddad insists…
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Teta's Kibbeh bil Saniyeh
Baked kibbeh in a round tray, scored into diamonds, made by Teta every Sunday and for anyone who arrived from abroad, which in her view was a kind of illness kibbeh could treat.
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The Olive Harvest, 1967
The October harvest on the terraces below the stone house — the first without Elias, who had left for Brazil the year before. Fourteen pickers, two borrowed donkeys, and nets under every tree.
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Elias Haddad
Elias Haddad (1938–2004), Fouad's younger brother, left for São Paulo in 1966 with a cousin's address and a trade in fabric. He ran a shop on Rua 25 de Março for thirty years and wrote to Teta every…
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Letters from São Paulo
Four hundred and fifty letters, one a month for thirty-eight years, from Elias in Brazil to Teta on the mountain — and how the family found out what was in them.
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Family tree
- &Fouad Haddad1929–1998
- &Michel Khouryb. 1953
- &Mona Haddadb. 1962
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