This section lists articles, a book, and a documentary that provide insights or stories about the Berouti family during their time in Jaffa.

The Long Way Home, by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark. This is The Guardian newspaper article featuring Emile Alexandre Berouti and the house he grew up in while in Jaffa. I talk about this house in the Discoveries section under the title entry: “Emile Berouti’s Family House in Jaffa”. Also, for Arabic speakers, here is the link to the full-length documentary by Maryse Gargour, mentioned under the same entry.

L’agriculture en Syrie: III. - Arboriculture fruitière et Viticulture, by Paul Parmentier. This is a French academic paper, published on April 30th 1922, discussing fruit tree cultivation in Syria and Palestine by focusing on the potential and existing agricultural practices in the region. Michel Berouti is mentioned on pages 150 and 151 as being a concrete example of running a successful fruit production in the region.

Tales from the Orchards, Yitzhak Rokach, 1970. This book was written in Hebrew and I do not believe that it was ever translated into English. I learned about this book from an acquaintance who lives in Jaffa, Yossi Granovski. He mentioned to me that the author - whose Jewish family was also in the orange export business - discusses in details his past experience and interactions with the Palestinian orange growers of Jaffa. He also shares his impressions of many of them, including the three Berouti brothers: Michel, Negib, and Emile. Yossi was very kind to scan and send me the relevant pages, which I then had professionally translated into English. For context, the author’s brother, Israel Rokach, was Tel Aviv’s mayor from 1936 to 1953, so this account is from a Zionist perspective. I highlighted the paragraphs where the Beroutis are mentioned (and one paragraph about where the “Gelat brothers” groves were located before the Nakba. Note that the pages are not consecutive. The included pages are: 40-41, 56-57, and 66-69. The original pages in Hebrew can be found here.

In Memory of Esther, Cinema Dunia, by Raja Shehada. In this article, Raja Shehadeh reflects on Esther Gelat’s (née Berouti) love of cinema through her daily ritualistic escape into a cinema in Ramallah after her family’s displacement from Jaffa during the Nakba.