Below are photos collected from various sources, primarily from different family members. Individuals whose identities are known have been labeled, but we need your help in recognizing more people. If you can confidently identify someone, please reach out.
Victoria Habib Fi'ani and Emile Nicolas Berouti, Jaffa, ca. 1921.
Negib Berouti and Victoria Araktingi with their eight children, ca. 1925.
Claire Gelat (sitting down) and Yvette Gelat, Jaffa, ca. 1935
Leyla Tyan and George Emile Berouti's wedding, July 1946
Berthe Gargour and Alexandre Berouti's family
Salma Berouti, with friend Louis Zamaria.
Catherine Berouti with her children on the stoop of their house in Talbiyeh, West Jerusalem, ca. 1936. Check out the entry about this house in the Discoveries section, titled “Catherine Berouti and Elias Gelat’s House in Jerusalem.”
Yvette Gelat, Ramallah, ca. 1950
Georges Berouti, son of Michel Berouti and Julia Araktingi, 1914. This photograph was taken by the legendary Jerusalem photographer Garabed Krikorian.
Robert Berouti (left) and Michel Berouti, Jaffa, mid 1930s
Michel (left) and Robert Berouti, Jaffa, ca. 1933
Leyla Tyan and George Emile Berouti's wedding, July 1946. The girl behind the bride to the left of the picture is Marlène Berouti. Marlène's younger sister, Andrée, is in front of her in the picture. The girl in the center of the photograph is Françoise Talamas.
Salma Berouti on her wedding day in February 1947, with her brother Joseph Berouti. The tall flower girl in front is Andrée Berouti. Marlène Berouti stands behind Selma and Joseph, wearing a white hairband. The man in a suit with white hair, visible in the background on the left, is Nicolas Berouti.
Nicolas Gelat, 1935
Siblings Michel (left) and Robert (center) Berouti with their cousin, Alexandre Beyrouti, Jaffa, ca. 1935
Elias Thomas Gelat
Michel Berouti. Undated picture, from his obituary in the Newspaper "Falastin". You can read the full obituary in the "Archives" section under "Obituaries in Falastin".
Friends in Jaffa, 1942
Friends in Jaffa, 1942
Leyla Tyan
Salma Berouti is on the right. Who are the others?
Marie Berouti
Alexandre Gelat, Jaffa 1914. Source: Salt Research's archival collection
Marie Berouti and Alexandre Gelat
The young child at the front of the picture is Alexandre Beyrouti. The identity of the others is currently unknown. I suspect that the house in the background was inhabited by one of the Berouti families. I wonder if it is still standing today.
Michel Berouti as a baby, with his uncle François, Jaffa, ca. 1927
This is probably a Berouti wedding, however, the couple is still unknown. The little blond girl in the front center is Yvette Gelat. The boy to the left of her in the picture, holding the flowers and looking to the side, is Michel Berouti. Judging from the apparent age of these two children and knowing their dates of birth, I would estimate this wedding to have taken place around 1932.
Claire Gelat, Jaffa, ca. 1928
Charles Emile Berouti and Samira Halabi as an engaged couple, Jaffa, 1943
Charles Emile Berouti and Samira Halabi's wedding, Jaffa, April 1944
Jean Negib Berouti, on the far left of the picture. Second from the left is Amine Akel, ca. 1925. Source: Les Palestiniens, Elias Sanbar, 2004.
Jacques Berouti as young boy.
Jacques Berouti
Claire Gelat (left) and Yvette Gelat, Jaffa
Charles Emile Berouti, Jaffa, ca. 1918
First cousins Charles Emile Berouti (left) and Antoine Gebran Berouti
Charles Emile Berouti, Jaffa
Victorine Berouti (née Zamaria), Jaffa, ca. 1924
Victorine Berouti (née Zamaria), Jaffa, ca. 1924
Salma Berouti and Elias Kettaneh's wedding at St. Anthony Latin Church, Jaffa, February 1947. The witnesses were Najla Berouti and Alexandre kettaneh.
Emile Alexandre Berouti
Victoria Fi'ani and Emile Nicolas Berouti, with their youngest son, Charles Emile, Jaffa
Antoine Elias Gelat
Charles Emile Berouti (in the white suit); behind him are Alexandre Berouti and Antoine Gelat, at a wedding at St-Anthony's Latin Church in Jaffa.
Charles Emile Berouti
Berthe Gargour and Alexandre Berouti
Georges Berouti and Leyla Tyan's wedding, Jaffa, 1946. I recognize my dad, Jacques Berouti, as the boy in the suit to the far right of the picture.
Victorine Berouti (née Zamaria), Jaffa, 1924
Masquerade party, Jaffa, 1925. Encircled in red: Victorine Berouti (née Zamaria), and her husband, Nicolas Berouti; encircled in Blue, Marcelle Berouti (née Roch) and her younger brother, Elie Roch; encircled in green: Louis Zamaria. Other people present in the picture include: Antoine Roch, Isabelle Roch, Loktania Roch, Eveline Roch, Arthur Roch, Adelaide Roch, Johnny Rohy Al-Khalidi, and Edmond Roch. Please reach out if you can identify someone with high certainty. Source: يافا عطر مدينة (“Jaffa, Perfume of a City”), 1991, p. 159.
The wedding of Rita Gargour and Georges Damiani, 1935. Emile Berouti is identified as one of the two children in the photo. I suspect he is the child on the far left; however, Emile was born in 1935. Could the wedding date be incorrect? Might it have taken place around 1925 instead? Any help in clarifying this would be appreciated. The other child is identified as Gilbert Gargour. Other adults present include Nabil Nazzal and Peter Barakat. I believe I also recognize Charles-Emile Berouti at the bottom of the photo, holding the child—but that still needs to be confirmed. Source: يافا عطر مدينة (“Jaffa, Perfume of a City”), 1991, p. 232.
Les Soeurs de Saint-Joseph school for girls, 1925. The caption in Arabic indicates that Salma Berouti is in this picture. She was about 12 years old. Can anyone identify her with high certainty? Source: يافا عطر مدينة (“Jaffa, Perfume of a City”), 1991, p. 170.
Tafeeda Masamiri (Victor Berouti's wife), with her children Alexandre and Maurice, early 1930s
The young boy in front with the white hat is Robert Berouti. The little girl next to him is Yvette Gelat. Behind her is Michel Berouti. The boy at the left of the picture is Alexandre Beyrouti, and the tall girl is probably Claire Gelat. The adult male's identity is uncertain, but he is likely to be Victor Berouti.
Alexandre Beyrouti as a child, possibly with his father Victor, early 1930s.
Alexandre Beyrouti
Maurice Beyrouti
Alexandre Beyrouti
Victorine Berouti with her son Michel, Jaffa, May 1928
Nicolas Berouti with his son Michel, Jaffa, May 1928