On the selected page, person 32 is a woman named "Lebibi Koorani" who was then teaching in Shweifat. This woman received her teaching certificate from the Suk el-Gharb Station on 4 February 1888. Although her name is spelled differently, and some of the details are incorrect, could this woman be Labiba Kurani?
Also note that person 10 is Rahil Haddad, whose teaching certificate is also presented in this exhibition.
]]>This item is page 58 of a book that lists schools, teachers and certificates for the Protestant community in Ottoman Syria dating from 1888 to 1893. The lists were complied by the American missionary Henry Harris Jessup after letters of inquiry were sent to other members of the American Mission in Ottoman Syria (some of the replies are enclosed in the book). The list can be dated to 1893. Compare this list to the information presented in "Appendix IV" of Henry Harris Jessup Fifty-Three Years in Syria: Volume I and II. (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910): 805-808.
On the selected page, person 32 is a woman named "Lebibi Koorani" who was then teaching in Shweifat. This woman received her teaching certificate from the Suk el-Gharb Station on 4 February 1888. Although her name is spelled differently, and some of the details are incorrect, could this woman be Labiba Kurani?
Also note that person 10 is Rahil Haddad, whose teaching certificate is also presented in this exhibition.
The chart is in English, but includes the Arabic titles of the subjects. It was created by Christine B. Lindner on 8 October 2013.
]]>This pdf file contains information regarding the 55 teaching certificates, dating from 1865-1887 that are held by the NEST Special Collections. This chart includes the names of those who received a certificate, the name of the missionary who endorsed the certificate, the date of certification, and the subjects certified to teach.
The chart is in English, but includes the Arabic titles of the subjects. It was created by Christine B. Lindner on 8 October 2013.
For more information regarding the history of this certificate and its role as an artifact of Protestant Heritage in the Middle East, please see the "Quick Study" article in the NEST Theological Review (2013) 34:2.
]]>This is a digital copy of the teaching certificate granted to Labiba Kurani by the American Missionaries in 1887.
For more information regarding the history of this certificate and its role as an artifact of Protestant Heritage in the Middle East, please see the "Quick Study" article in the NEST Theological Review (2013) 34:2.
Little is know about Rahil Haddad, but she maybe the same woman listed as Rahil Mashriq Haddad in a later teaching record. As such she may be related to both Antiochian Patriarch Gregorius IV and Leila Haddad Badr, the wife of Yusuf Badr (the first Arab pastor of the National Evangelical Church of Beirut).
]]>This teaching certificate was given to a woman named Rahil Haddad in 1886. It serves as a comparison to Labiba Kurani's teaching certificate. The subjects that Rahil was certified to teacher included Arabic Conjugation & Syntax, Calculation, Geography, Reading and Writing. These are the most common subjects found in the 55 teaching certificates and they represent the "basic education" taught at Protestant schools.
Little is know about Rahil Haddad, but she maybe the same woman listed as Rahil Mashriq Haddad in a later teaching record. As such she may be related to both Antiochian Patriarch Gregorius IV and Leila Haddad Badr, the wife of Yusuf Badr (the first Arab pastor of the National Evangelical Church of Beirut).