Ainab and the American Community in Lebanon

This blog was started by Joshua Landis in 2015 to commemorate the American community in Lebanon and particularly of Ainab. He grew up in this hilltop community that was started in 1932-33 by five American University of Beirut families: the Dodd, Close, Leavitt, Kerr, and Crawford families. Later families included: Landis, Crow, Dodge, Eddy, Scott, Gordon and Kennedy. Other families who summered in Shemlan, just below Ainab, include: Dorman, Stoltzfus, Smith, Van Dyck.

Monday, October 20, 2025

Kerr and Eddy

Stanley Kerr and Bill Eddy having a good laugh over a game of chess in Ainab, Carmen in background

Ainab photos by Mary Eddy: 1955-7

Mary Eddy's 28 photo albums (1917-1964) will be archived at AUB. They are particularly interested in the Ainab American community. The photos I posted here do not have the folks identified so any names that can be supplied would be wonderful. (The numbers in the captions are Album and Page locations and can be used to reference the image).