CREDITS:
- Employment Ontario for funding the project.
- Windsor Public Library for providing the support.
- Sue Berthiaume of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
- Eugene Crosby of Career Development Services for his support.
- Jean Foster Director of the Public Services, Windsor Public Library
for her continuous support.
- Corinne Despierre-Corporon, Project Web Developer for her direction
and support.
- Chris Woodrow, Manager – Marketing and Development for his
continuous support and guidance.
- Nada Iskander - Researcher/Translator - Windsor Public
Library; for her research, organization, editing and putting together
the material, pictures, and resources. Also for translating project
content from/to Arabic and from/to English.
- Natalee Labiak, Web Designer, Windsor Public Library for her wonderful
contribution and collaboration in designing the Windsor Arab Community
website.
- Dr. Gordon Jasey, President of the Arab Canadian Intercultural
Orientation Centre (A.C.I.O.C) for his tremendous support, direction,
contribution of material and his initiative to start this project.
- Reda Mansour President of al-Mohajer House for his contribution
to the website’s material and references.
- Habeeb Salloum, contributor to Things Asian at http://www.thingsasian.com/contributor/hsalloum,
and http://www.2camels.com/travel-writers/writer-82.php for his contribution
of many recipes and pictures.
- Jeanette Haddad for the beautiful collection of pictures.
- Lorrain Haddad for the beautiful collection of pictures.
- Helmi Charif from Windsor, Canada, for Folklore songs video clips.
- Fouad Mohamad from Windsor, Canada, for Folklore music video clips,
playing the Oud, Tablah and Daff.
- Mike Malek from Mike’s Oud Website, www.mikeouds.com for beautiful inlaid Oud pictures.
- Patrick Gruban, from Germany at patrick@gruban.de for his contribution
to Calligraphy and Arabesque pictures.
- Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) for pictures of ancient artifacts.
- Alice Kawash, former Najda president, Arab World Notebook for
Calligraphy pictures and material.
- Josie Hazen, Graphic Designer for her help.
- Frank Ieraci for his contribution.
- Haytham Safia for musical audio clip “Having Fun” playing
the Oud and Tablah, retrieved from http://www.mikeouds.com/mp3/ and
http://www.haythamsafia.com/main-eng.html Haytham Safia Qu4rtet,
Promises CD.
- Wael Kakish for the musical audio clip called Samah-l
Nuba Kan Zaman, an Egyptian Folk Songs from KAN ZAMAN website at http://www.kanzaman.org/ and
the clip retrieved from http://www.kanzaman.org/cds.html from the
Claremont Colleges 2006 CD, Little Bridges Performance.
- Meredith and Michael for the pictures.
- Ken Steele for the pictures.
Disclaimer
Copyright 2008 Windsor Public Library. All Rights Reserved.
The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of
the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government
of Canada or the Province of Ontario.
All digital materials in this website, including images, illustrations,
designs, video files, photographs, and written and other materials
are controlled or licensed by Windsor Public Library, unless otherwise
noted.
Express permission from the Windsor Public Library is required if
you wish to modify, copy, reproduce, republish, post, transmit or
distribute the material in any way for any other purposes.
As a publicly supported institution the Windsor Public Library generally
does not own the rights to material in its collections. Therefore,
it does not charge permission fees for use of the material and cannot
give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material
of its collections.
Users desiring to use material from the Windsor Arab Community website
bear the responsibility of making individualized determinations whether
privacy and public rights are implicated by the nature of the materials
and how they may wish to use the materials.
The opinions expressed in the interviews are those of the interviewee
only and are made available to the public with his or her express
consent.
