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Stephen Lamb
June 30, 2017
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.
Marilyn Berry
May 11, 2017
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 countenance. May Allah favor Ustaz Ziadah in the afterlife. Shukraan, Ustaz Ziadeh,
December 21, 2016
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 ago I had a brief opportunity to chat with Farhat and Mrs. Ziadeh at a conference in Washington DC of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. I am sorry that we did not have more opportunities to meet because he was a great teacher and terrific scholar.
Brooks Wrampelmeier
Washington, DC
December 21, 2016
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 prepared me well for a 33-year career as an Arabist Foreign Service Officer in the Department of State. I last saw Farhat and his wife two or more decades ago at a meeting in Washington, DC of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. I am sorry that we did not have more opportunities to talk. He was an important figure in my education.
My condolences go to his widow and children, especially Ambassdador Susan Ziadeh whose State Department career has taken here to some of my old postings.
Brooks Wrampelmeier
Keith Moore
August 19, 2016
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.
David Mesenbring
July 25, 2016
A voice that would not - could not - be silenced now challenges us to keep its echo alive.
Nabila Salem
June 23, 2016
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 !
Zachary Lockman
June 23, 2016
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.
Walter Andrews
June 21, 2016
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 endeavors that were new and even strange to him. He was the very core a good human being.
June Rugh
June 21, 2016
My heart goes out to Dr. Ziadeh's family, especially his wife and daughters, on hearing of this immense loss. My family and I are greatly privileged to have known him, a man unparalleled in so many ways: as a scholar who established new ways of studying Arab culture, language, and religion, as a voice in local and international media for the Palestinians and the Middle East in general, and most of all, as a devoted family man. May he rest in peace.
Ahmed Amr
June 20, 2016
He was so easy to love. No man can dispute his intellectual integrity, his brilliance and his modesty. I feel so fortunate that out paths crossed. My sympathies to all the family and to our community. We have lost a giant - and there will never be another Farhat Ziadeh. May he rest in Peace.
Sameria Nasir
June 20, 2016
May his memory be eternal.What a wonderful legacy he left. Our condolences go out to the entire family.
Charles Malouf Samaha
June 20, 2016
Farhat worked with my uncle, Faris Malouf of Boston, in establishing the Institute of Arab American Affairs in November 1944 and they had known each other since 1939 when they met in Flint at the Arab National League's 4th Annual Convention. Farhat was very giving of his time with me reminiscing about those turbulent times. I will miss him. Charles Malouf Samaha, Esq.
Salwa Nemr
June 19, 2016
I was so sorry to hear of the loss of the love of your life. Remembering your great love story today and always.
Jonis Davis
June 19, 2016
Great appreciation for Farhat Ziadeh's paRticipation during the 1980s in SCIPP, Seattle Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Besides sharing his personal experience during the beginnings of israel, he often joined one or another Jewish partner to speak about our hopes for peace before many audiences. His influence was profound. Deep condolences to Suad and his family on his loss.
June 19, 2016
Your life and career spanned a turbulent century, especially for your people, for whom you remain a source of inspiration, fair minded scholarship and integrity.
Rest in peace, good friend.
Yousif Farjo
June 19, 2016
Dearest Ziadeh family,
In 2004 my niece 6 1/2 years old at the time attended one of Farhat's lectures in Seattle. A few months later she visited FL rattling all sorts of tidbit information she retained from his speech as if she was the Professor. Quite a footprint he leaves behind. My thoughts and Prayers to Aunt Suad, daughters and their families.
Love,
Renee Bateh
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