Farhat Jacob Ziadeh

What sad news to learn just now of Professor Ziadeh's passing ... My parents had so much love and respect for the Professor and his wife. Their marriage a benchmark for my mother/father. And for me and my brothers ... his five brilliant and beautiful daughters an endless source of boyhood fascination and crushes. What the world needs now is more men like Professor Ziadeh.

Ahhh, I did not know Ustaz Ziadeh passed away or I would have attended his funeral or memorial. I sat next to him in his Conversational Eastern Arabic class at the University of Washington in the 1970's. I so enjoyed his course! I said I was Jewish and studied some Hebrew and I also wanted to learn Arabic. He said to the class: "We will claim her as an Easterner." I was honored. I had fun in his class. It was a small class so we got lots of individual help. I remember his voice, his...

By way of the AUB Alumni Magazine, I have just learned of Farhat's passing. He and the late Bayly Winder were my first teachers of Arabic at Princeton University. They encouraged me to spend my Junior Year Abroad at AUB. In my senior year at Princeton i benefitted from Farhat's course on Islamic law. He also served as the advisor for my senior thesis. All of this prepared me well for a 33-year career as an Arabist with the Foreign Service of the Department of State. Two or more decades...

I remember Farhat Ziadeh very well. With the late Bayly Winder, he was one of my first teachers of Arabic at Princeton University in the mid-1950s. Initially he was working for Voice of America in New York City but on Monday evenings he held a two-hour class in colloquial Arabic. He and Bayly encouraged me to take my Junior Year Abroad at the American University of Beirut. During my senior year at Princeton he was my thesis advisor. I also took his course on Islamic law. All of this...

Farhat was a courageous and passionate advocate of Palestinian rights to the Church Council of Greater Seattle. He founded and served on the Council's Palestinian Concerns Task Force with great dignity and civility for many years. His testimony and witness will be sorely missed by the whole community. May Peace be with him.

A voice that would not - could not - be silenced now challenges us to keep its echo alive.

I would like to send our condolences & sympathies to my dearest sister in law Suad & my nieces Shereen,Susan,Rhonda,Deena,Reema & families for the loss of our beloved Farhat Ziadeh !! He was the Master of Ceremony on my graduation from Friend School in Ramallah !! Amo Farhat was an incredible & most respected human being !! He will be missed but never forgotten !! May his memory be eternal !

I just heard that Farhat passed away. As a scholar, a teacher, a mentor and a human being, he was a wonderful role model for all of us. And from my acquaintance with two of his daughters I have the impression that he was also a devoted and loving father. My deepest condolences to the entire Ziadeh family.

I consider Farhat to have been the father of my professional life. He hired me when I was young, naive, and eager. He nurtured my career in a patient, selfless manner. Presided over the birth and growth of the department in which I spent the whole of my professional life and was central in making it a place where mutual respect, kindness, and thoughtful collegial relations reigned. He was an outstanding scholar but beyond that he had the rare and treasured ability to support scholarly...