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From: Daniel Mounir Hakmeh - Lebanon

Date: Tue 05-Aug-08 12:38 AM

Subject: Greetings

Dear Mr. Elie Abboud,

I am proud as every Kobayatian is, to have the Kobayat site, where people of Kobayat are able to be up to date with the events and activities taking place in our beloved village as well as creating bonds between Kobayatian people through this website, people that are Kobayatian, but they never met before.

All this, more and more is now available to us thanks to you.

Personally, I never met you before, but I would like to. I am P. Mounir Hakmeh middle son and by the way am sending you my father new tales to be published on Kobayat site and am proud of that too. So, another modest thanks again from P. mounir and his family members.

if you would please find the Tales attached to the mail below.

Yours,

Daniel Hakmeh.

From: Joseph Ibrahim & Jamil Daher - Lebanon

Date: Mon 04-Aug-08 8:58 PM

Subject: facebook

Dear Mr Elie,

I am Joseph Ibrahim from Kobayat, first thanx for your wonderfull website kobayat.org ...
From Our believing in a united Kobayat , we (Mee and my friend Jamil Daher ) we created a group on facebook named : Kobayat Official Group link:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32088440659&refurl=http%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fq%3DKobayat%2BOfficial%2BGroup%26init%3Dq

This group have so many purposes:
1-Join all kobayathiens on facebook and create a link between them and the emigrants
2-Make all the non-kobayathiens know our village and it's beauty

We just request if you can post this link on your website , and we have the honor to cooperate with your website , we are waiting for your reply

thanx sincerely
Joseph Ibrahim & Jamil Daher admins of Kobayat Official Group

From: Fida - Spain

Date: Mon 04-Aug-08 2:28 PM

Subject: help

Bonjour Monsieur

J'ai eu vos coordonnees par internet. Je ne sais pas si vous pouvez m'aider, mais je cherche des infos sur les ecoles des missionnaires iatliens au Liban entre 1910 et 1925. Je sais que ma grand-mère était dans une de ces écoles, et je ne trouve aucun livre publié sur cette periode. Je cherche a savoir si les iatliens avaient beaucoup d'ecoles au Liban ou juste quelques unes. Sur internet, on entend surtout parler de Kobayat, mais quqnd j'ai cherché Kobayat sur la carte geographique, ça m'a paru tres loin de Beyrouth, donc ce ne peut pas¨^etre l'ecole ou a été ma grand mere. Croyez-vous que c'est possible de trouver des archives qui datent de cette epoque? je cherche a joindre une italienne (plutot sa famille puisqu'elle doit etre decedee mainteannt) qui a grandi dans cette ecole avec ma grand mere.

Je vous remercie d'avance si vous pouvez m'aider en me donnant queqlues pistes.

Cordialement
Fida

From: Joseph Samaha - UAE

Date: Wed 30-Jul-08 8:10 AM

Subject: Alef Mabrouk

Dear Elie,

Hope you and your family are all doing great, I will soon be in Lebanon and surely in Kobayat, I just wanted to congratulate Pere Raymond Abdo being nominated as the Superior of the Carmelites in Lebanon, congratulations and wishes of all the best in his new endeavor, a great person on the head of a great association…

Rgds,

Joseph Samaha

From: Wadih Boutros - Lebanon

Date: Fri 04-Jul-08 12:08 PM

Subject: Congratulations

Dear Eng. Elie

Congratulations for your effort to build this website. It is very interesting and very nice.
I wish you more progress and prosperity.

Best Regards
Eng. Wadih Boutros
IT Manager

From: Issam Ghallab - Venezuela

Date: Sun 29-Jun-08 4:36 PM

Subject: Contact Kobayat Website

dears all / let me send to you all there my best wishes and regards hoping that all together - SAVING - Lebanon the great as I wish to be active member here in Venezuela.

god bless you all.

From: Maximo Antonio Kuri -Canada

Date: Sat 28-Jun-08 3:18 AM

Subject: Inquiry from Canada

Dear Sir,

I am looking for information about my great grandfather Isaac Khoury, who was a Maronite priest in the town of Sebhel (sometimes spelled Sib'il or Sebaal - located between Zgharta and Ehden) in the late 1800's and early 1900's. I have previously written to the Patriarchate, but have received no reply.

I am very fond and proud of my Lebanese ancestry and our Maronite heritage, and would like to learn more about Bounna Isaac. I was born in Mexico and now live in Canada, but I am teaching my children to love and remember their roots.

I have attached a photo of father Isaac Khoury, who was born circa 1845 in Sebhel. When I see that portrait, it reminds me of the words by the French traveler Laurent D'Avrieux, who visited Sebhel in 1660: "All Maronite prelates live austerely and are poorly dressed and have no income except what the land yields to their manual work. Their garments are poor, but clean; virtues adorn them, not rich clothes embroidered with gold and silver. Their crosiers are of wood, but they are bishops of gold...".

I would appreciate very much any guidance you can give me in order to find out more about my great-grandfather. Maybe there are church archives in Lebanon with his date of birth and death, his wife's name, and maybe information on other relatives such as his parents.

I live far away from Sebhel now - in Vancouver. But my heart is in Lebanon, and will always be.

Kind regards,

Maximo Antonio Kuri (Khoury)
Vancouver, Canada

From: Fady El Chidiac - Lebanon

Date: Fri 27-Jun-08 1:48 PM

Subject: The story of the two birds

Dear Elie,

I just want to congratulate you for the great Kobayat website with its rich information .

Kindly I would like if you add again the story of the two birds ( al 3asafir awfa al azwaj ) .

Thank you in advance and hope the best for you.

Regards,

From: Rony Sassine - Lebanon

Date: Sat 21-Jun-08 9:33 PM

Subject: Contact Kobayat Website

Dear Mr. Elie,
I ask u to add on the website a place where we can search for something if we want, as for a place, a document, a name....

Regards.
Rony Sassine

From: Emmanuelle COFFRE - VINCENNES, France

Date: Wed 18-Jun-08 11:01 AM

Subject: coordonnées de Soeur Simone Abdel Malek

Bonjour,

Je me permets de vous contacter afin d'obtenir les coordonnées, et notamment l'adresse mail de Soeur Simone. J'ai séjourné 3 mois chez les filles de la charité durant l'été 2002 pour donner des cours à des élèves de l'école en difficulté. J'ai habité avec les soeurs pendant cette période et les ai accompagnées dans toutes leurs activités. Aujourd'hui en école de commerce, j'aurais besoin d'une attestation écrite de la part de soeur Simone afin de faire valider ce voyage comme expérience internationale.

Merci par avance,

From: Lenice Chame - são paulo, Brasil

Date: Wed 18-Jun-08 3:44 AM

Subject: Kobayat Website

My grandfathers came from Kobayat to Brazil in 1912. Our family's name is CHAME, CHAMME, CHAMME. I wonder to know if someone of my family lives there.

Thank you ,

Lenice Chame

From: George Fouad Breydy - Lebanon

Date: Tue 17-Jun-08 10:41 PM

Subject: كتاب "من ظلال الأمس" للدكتور فؤاد ســـلوم

Mon cher Elie
....

les Quelques textes que tu as publie recement Re Fouad Salloum من ظلال الأمس , sont tres attrayants. Ce sont les petites histoires qui font ensemble l'HISTOIRE d'un peuple.
Merci pour l'effort continue que tu exerces.
A tres bientot
Georges

From: P.Nassim Kastoun - Kobayat

Date: Fri 06-Jun-08 10:57 AM

Subject: A P.Cesar

Si nous allons venir nombreux à la signature du livre "Cobiat sous les Croisés", ça sera pour remercier P.Cesar pour tout ce qu'il a fait en faveur de Kobayat qu il'a aimée beaucoup plus que la majorité d'entre nous.
Venir signifie dire "Grand Merci" à un homme que beaucoup de nous serons fiers de l'avoir connu en personne, le seul fait constituant en soi un grand honneur.
Merci aux Pères Carmes qui sont en train de dire ces "mercis" à ces grands hommes de leurs vivant et non à la "libanaise".
P.Cesar, merci d'avoir été dans ma vie et dans celle de beaucoup de mes amis, un "vrai" scout montrant le chemin de celui qui est "la VOIE, la VERITE et la Vie".

P.Nassim Kastoun
Un Prêtre Scout de Kobayat.
Curé Maronite
Kobayat - Al Zouk - Rue Principale
Tel: 06/350146
Cell: 03/758674
E.M: nkastoun@idm.net.lb

From: Silvia Jaimes - Bogotá-Colombia

Date: Wed 04-Jun-08 6:37 AM

Subject: Contact

Sr. Fernando Castro, yo soy amiga de Yohaira Dajud, contáctame o contéstame por este medio, un saludo, Silvia Jaimes

From: Dany Zeitouny - hadath, Beirut

Date: Tue 03-Jun-08 11:37 PM

Subject: Contact Kobayat Website

hey all that's a magnificent site.. I'm 19 and from Kobayat and i haven't been there since like 2 years.. and it happened that I had a uni project about my home town.. and as I started surfing the site I regained memories and feelings I never thought I'd feel again.. stuff I used 2 do with my late grandpa "fahed zeitouny" when I was a little boy.. and I'm really looking forward 2 go 4 a few days.. take care all and great job really keep on the good work..

From: Antonio Celso Abrahão - Brasil

Date: Mon 02-Jun-08 7:13 PM

Subject: Contact

Hello, Elie. My name is Antonio and I belong to the family Abrahão (originally Ibrahim) here in Jacareí, Brasil. My great grand-parent Youssef Ibrahim Nader Raad came from Kobayat when he was a child. I never met him. He passed away before I was born. My family says here that he had strong differences with his brother when they were young and so, they ended up stop talking to each other. Due to these differences, my great grand-parent decided to remove the surnames Nader Raad from his name, in an act of revenge, remaining just Youssef Ibrahim (that's the explanation why our last name turned to Ibrahim "Abrahão").

I really would like to know more things about my ancestors... I know much little from them... I intend to go to Kobayat with my wife very soon to get closer to my ancestor's land and, perhaps, to my remaining relatives in Lebanon. Do you have any clue about my family? Places they lived? Remaining relatives? Where they worked??
I'll wait for your answer and i hope we can meet each other soon...

Thank you in advance and best regards!!!
Antonio Celso Abrahão.

From: Yacob Kkhaloul - Palestine

Date: Thu 29-May-08 9:17 PM

Subject: help

hello my name is Yacob and I'm from Palestine, I'm preparing an academic work about the history of the churches courts in the holy land, please if you have documents, pictures, decisions, instructions or any thing else please let me know.

thank you.

From: Mariana Daher - São Paulo - Brazil

Date: Sun 25-May-08 5:18 PM

Subject: website

Hello Elie.
I found your e-mail in the website kobayat.org. My grandparents came from Kobayat to Brazil a long time ago and we have a big family here, wich lives all over the country.
I'm 25 years old and I'm a journalist. I was wondering if you need some help to translate the website's texts from English to Portuguese. I could help you with some of them. Contact me, if you need.
Congratulations for the website, it is very good for us to learn more about Lebanon.

Mariana Daher
São José do Rio Preto - São Paulo - Brazil

From: Lorraine Antonie - South Africa

Date: Mon 19-May-08 5:32 PM

Subject: Friend

Hi Elie,

Hope you are well.

I met a friend in Kobayat many years ago, about 11 or 12 years ago but lost contact as I did not come back to Lebanon for more than 10 years and he immigrated to Canada or Switzerland I think.

His name is Romeo, but I do not know his surname. Do you have anyone surfing your site from abroad with the name Romeo? He is now maybe about 34 yrs old.

Would be great if we could get in touch.

Kind Regards,
Lorraine Antonie

From: Elias Abboud - Haifa

Date: Wed 07-May-08 11:35 PM

Subject: Abboud Family

Hallo ,
my name is Elias Abboud and I come from Haifa. I want to know from where comes my Family ? my father called Edward and my grandfather Gibran and his father Youssef (he was born in 1800's) .

I will thank you if you tell me where can i find information about us, thank you.

From: Eliane Boutros - Lebanon

Date: Wed 07-May-08 1:20 PM

Subject: Baldati

Dear webmaster,

We are an NGO called Baldati. Our organization is concerned with rural development, environment and civic education . It also works to develop simple and practical methods by which to revive Lebanese villages, reunite their communities, support their institutions, and encourage dialogue among them and their members.

We would like to know if it’s possible to post events on your site and invite the Kobayat site’s members to join Kobayat community on the Baldati website by becoming members in Baldati (www.baldati.com) and share with us articles, photos and join discussions.

Thank You

From: Jose Kore

Date: Tue 06-May-08 8:07 PM

Subject: felicitations

Mr Elie

Bravo pour ce site. Que le Seigneur bénisse vos activités pour un témoignage rayonnant de la culture et foi chrétienne.

From: Regina Hannouche

Date: Fri 02-May-08 5:21 PM

Subject: Ola

Oi quanto tempo, espero que vc esteja gosando de saúde e que DEUS e San Maroun te protejam. Um super big mega abraço.

From: Hamid Joseph Ramos - Venezuela

Date: Sun 27-Apr-08 2:15 AM

Subject: From Valencia, Venezuela

Dear Elie:
My Name is Hamid Ramos, and I am from Venezuela, I liked your page and I am able to collaborate with some pictures. My uncle was Elie Abdou who just passes away, I have another uncle living there in Kobayat. Dr Youssef Daher, his mother (Zarife Abdou) was my grand mother. Any way back here we have a strong union and I would like if you can send me some pictures of my old family of Kobayat.
Let's keep in touch and let me know any thing regard this.
Bye

From: Georges F. Breidy - Lebanon

Date: Fri 11-Apr-08 6:02 PM

Subject: Saint Stanislas

Mon cher ami ,
Aujourd'hui c'est la fête de Saint Stanislas. Ce que je te propose c'est de suggérer aux pères Carmes de Kobayat et a tous les Kobayatains qui voudraient valoriser le travail et les bienfaits de Père Stanislas pour notre CHERE CONTREE
de célébrer une messe de remerciement et d'organiser une conférence annuelle pour une mise a point historique et donner a César ce qui es souhaite par Dieu , afin que justice soit toujours faite.
Le modèle du BON berger, on en a tant besoin.

A bientôt
Georges F. Breidy

From: Ralph Toubia - Brazil

Date: Mon 31-Mar-08 1:36 AM

Subject: Hello from Brazil

Dear Elie.
I have found your details while surfing the internet about information on Dar Bechtar.
My great grandfather immigrated from Dar Bechtar to Brazil, and would like to find out if there is any members from the Toubia family still in that village.
I love to hear from them. Please keep me updated. Many thanks.

Ralph Toubia

From: Magdouline Salameh

Date: Sat 29-Mar-08 1:11 PM

Subject: المسيح قام حقاً قام

I am responsible of the group of Don Bosco group of Youth in The Salisian Convent in Bethlehem.
It would be a pleasure for us to have contact with any religious group in Lebanon in order to make a connection with all Christians within the Middle east and especially Lebanon. Maybe in the future we can organize mutual programs together.
thanks in advance.

Magdouline Salameh

From: Kleper Hakme - Brazil

Date: Fri 28-Mar-08 1:04 AM

Subject: Contact Kobayat Website

I'm a grand-grandson of a person who came to Brazil from Kobayat. I'd like to know some more from city and Hakme/Hakime family (probably Hakim is the correct way to write it, isn't it?). I know my grand-grandfather's name in Portuguese was Antonio Pedro Hakme. But it's the portuguese way to write it down. Probably the original (and correct) name was something like Anthony Peter Hakim (English form), Antoine Pierre Hakim or something like it. He was born around early 1900s. I also know he had a brother who did stay in Kobayat - his name was Jose, Joseph or Yousseff Hakim.

If you can contact me or send me some useful link I can use to reach people who could help me, would be grateful. My grandfather (older son of Antonio/Antoin) is around 86 years old and would like to hear from his family in Lebanon.

Regards,

Kleper Hakme

From: Fernando Castro - Colombia

Date: Wed 26-Mar-08 10:19 PM

Subject: Familia Dajud

Hola:
Yo fui novio de Yohaira hace muchos annos y no se donde esta ahora.
Me gustaria saber de ella. Es muy emprendedora e inteligente.
Conozco a su familia en Barranquilla y en Bogota. A su madre y sus hermanas.

Fernando Castro

From: Rianne

Date: Fri 29-Feb-08 3:00 AM

Subject: article on website

Dear Eng. Elie Abboud,

Christ's peace be with you!

I was looking for an article on your site but it doesn't come up on Search: Les Origines Érémitiques et Orientales de l'Ordre du Carme. I'm very interested in reading this so would appreciate it if you gave me the link to the article in the Kobayat site.

Many thanks, and keep up the fine work as webmaster,

Rianne

From: Elie Mounir Hakme - Lebanon

Date: Fri 22-Feb-08 8:52 PM

Subject: god bless

10x god bless you too and bless your hard work keep walking and we all support you in your trip good bye.

From: Youssef AOUN - California, USA

Date: Sun 17-Feb-08 4:19 AM

Subject: Contact

Dear Elie,

My name is Youssef AOUN, Lebanese and Maronite, living temporarily in California. I visit regularly kobayat.org and I appreciate the information you are putting online. Some of it helps me a lot.

To make a long story short, I work under the patronage of the IMF (www.maronet.org) where we are trying to push forward the Maronite Web Projects.
We tried to refurbish www.maronite.org, the project is still in its very beginnings.
The newest project we are working on is Maronite History, www.maronitehistory.org. We aim to build a Maronite Wiki, with a conservative approach, to be the reference in the History of the Maronites.

I would appreciate if you take a look at our website and add a link to it on Kobayat.org.

We are constantly looking for people that could help us.

Thank you very much

Youssef AOUN

From: David Dajud - Colombia

Date: Fri 15-Feb-08 12:29 AM

Subject: Parientes

Hola Elie, mi nombre es David Dajud Mendez soy hijo de Anuar Dajud Zapak. Quisiera conocer a mis parientes donde quiera que se encuentren, siento una gran curiosidad afectiva en saber por que nos desligamos tanto de nuestros orígenes.
Un gran abrazo

DAVID DAJUD MENDEZ
C.LEAD OPS CTG DHL Express
Pie de la Popa Cll 30 No 18A-226
Cartagena, Colombia

From: Claude mar

Date: Wed 06-Feb-08 3:18 AM

Subject: Father Antoine Tarabay

Dear Elie

Thanks for posting your email for all.

I've been looking for a Novena, or any prayer to Saint Nematullah Hardini, because I could find non anywhere, and I'd like to have it if it's anywhere on the net. And if you can help me find pictures of father Antoine Tarabay, and if you you have access to some, would you be so kind to send me at least one, because again it's not available anywhere.

Thanks even if you can't help
God Bless
Claude

From: Rosette Gouhaneh - Vienna, Austria

Date: Tue 29-Jan-08 1:48 PM

Subject: Greetings

Dear Mr. Elie

Many Many thanks for your wonderful Website which you established to raise up the voice of the Christian people not only in Lebanon but in the world Thank you again.
While surfing in your homepage ( wedding Photos ) I discovered many people whom i did not see and don't know anything about them since the beginning of the Lebanese civil war.

I would highly appreciate if you could communicate this Massage to Mr. SIMON EID personally with my warmest regards from Vienna.

I thank you in advance for your kind efforts with the great hope to receive any good news from your side.
Thank You again
Rosette Gouhaneh
Vienna

From: Robert Atallah - CA, USA

Date: Thu 24-Jan-08 9:26 AM

Subject: Hi

Hi Elie

I feel so ashamed of not being in touch with you. I wanted so bad to thank you for the article that you posted on your web page, but I am racing the time and I am not winning that battle.
I want you to know that I hold you in the highest regard and I am so sorry that I am deprived of enjoying being in touch with you and your family.
I hug you, with my beautiful niece and your kids, and I hope my time will get easier that I can enjoy your gathering.

Lots of love.

Until then.

Robert Atallah
Cedarlane Natural Foods, Inc.

USA

From: P. Louis Wehbé O.C.S.O.

Date: Wed 16-Jan-08 8:41 PM

Subject: Frère Benoît

Cher Elie,

Je souhaite que vous vous souveniez encore de moi. Nous étions en contact pendant un certain temps. Je vous AI rendu visite une seule fois dans votre maison, mais c'était une circonstance difficile : Le décès accidentel de votre frère.
J'admire votre website, c'est une vraie mission chrétienne.

Je me permets de vous proposer un texte à insérer dans votre site. C'est la notice biographique de frère Benoît RACHID, un fils de votre région Akkar, un fils du village de Kfar Noun, devenu moine cistercien trappiste à Latroun en Terre Sainte; né en 1917, entré au monastère en 1931, mort Le 13 novembre 2007. Je l'ai connu pendant de nombreuses années. Le Liban nord maronite peut certainement être fier d'avoir produit un Tel fruit de sainteté. Vous trouvez Le texte avec photos en pièce attachée.

Cher Elie, en attendant votre réaction, je vous assure de ma sympathie et de mes encouragements.

P. Louis Wehbé O.C.S.O.

From: Rania Akl - Lebanon

Date: Thu 17-Jan-08 1:30 PM

Subject: salut

bonjour,

je m'appelle Rania Akl responsable du tala23 kfaryassine - Adma, j'ai eu la connaissance du père Hany Tawk et il m'a guidé sur ce site, j'ai un livre des cantiques version électronique que je vais te l'envoyer et il m'a dit que vous avez des sujets et autres choses qui peux m'aider a ma paroisse.
J'attends de votre part, Monsieur, les sujets, et rapidement je te donnerai les cantiques.

Merci d'avance
Regards,

Rania Akl
Administrative Assistant
OUM EL NOUR

From: Roula Abboud - Canada

Date: Thu 10-Jan-08 2:40 AM

Subject: Felicitation

Bonsoir Elie.

Comment ca va? C'est Hikmat Naffaa du Canada. Est-ce que tu me souviens encore?
Félicitation pour ce site web . Vraiment on est très content d'en avoir un comme toi dans notre village.
Ma madame est du Tlail-Akkar, elle voudrait savoir si tu connais un site web ou quelque chose a l'internet reliée a Tlail.
Aussi je veux savoir si tu as un photo pour mon ami Joseph Philippe et son numéro de téléphone.

Merci et mon souhait.