Echoes Across the Seas: My Father's Odyssey

Born in 1922 in Tyre, Lebanon, Hanna Malouf endured childhood tragedies including the deaths of siblings and his fisherman father's disabling accident. Forced into early labor, he journeyed to Jerusalem at 13, where he met and married Herlinda ("Linda") Masso against her family's wishes, facing imprisonment for their love. They built a family amidst rising tensions.
The 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) displaced them during the Arab-Israeli conflict. Forced into exile in Tyre as refugees with three ...