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This book is part of a collection that was donated in 2021 to the Brown University Library by Mr. Fuad Suhail Saba in memory of his Palestinian grandfathers. Dr. Hanna (John) Nicola Khouri was born in Nazareth. He studied medicine at the American University of Beirut and the London School of Tropical Medicine. He established a medical and radiology clinic in Haifa, Palestine, with his English wife Blanche (née Screech) and they raised a family of three children. In 1948, Hanna and his family were attacked at their house in Haifa by Zionist militia and fled to Lebanon along with hundreds of thousands of refugees. Eventually Hanna established clinics at two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and, until he passed away, treated refugees and their families, often without charge. He was a kind and caring man, loved by his patients and remembered fondly by the Palestinian community. Fuad Saleh Saba was the first Arab accountant to be licensed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the UK, after obtaining a degree in business from the American University of Beirut. Returning to Jerusalem with his Lebanese wife Mohiba (née Malouf), in 1926 he founded the accounting firm of Saba & Co. with his brother Aziz. The firm grew and expanded into other cities in Palestine and the Levant, and eventually became the largest accounting firm in the Middle East (until a merger with Deloitte & Touche in 1990). Fuad and Mohiba had three children. Fuad was a pioneer in the Palestinian business community and founded business periodicals to bring modern management ideas to the country. He also was involved in efforts to oppose the forced immigration into Palestine of Zionists from Europe and elsewhere under the post-WWI British "Mandate" over Palestine. He was exiled by the British to the Seychelles from 1936 to 1938 for his role on the Arab Higher Committee. He returned to Palestine after exile but, like Hanna and his family, Fuad and Mohiba lost everything in 1948 and fled to Lebanon. Fuad continued to lead Saba & Co. from Beirut, and his sons Suhail and Fauzi joined the business in due course, establishing new offices in the Arabian Gulf countries and North Africa in the 1950s. Fuad is remembered in the Palestinian community as a business pioneer and a patriot.

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