Syrian from Homs .. What do you know about the assets of Steve Jobs Arab?

Steve Jobs states that it was not the first time that he and some of his friends went to this restaurant in Sacramento, the capital of California.This restaurant has been known for serving delicious Mediterranean food, serving oriental Arabic, Italian, French and Spanish.

The owner of the restaurant, who is known to be a Syrian national, once ran to him to shake hands with him in fascination, telling him that he was very proud that the legend of global technology personally visited his restaurant, and that it was a great honor for him to come to him several times. Jobs states that the name of the owner of the restaurant was a rude Arab "Abdel Fattah al-Jandali", and may have found it difficult to pronounce his first name, so he called only his second name, "Jandali", which was enough to give him a passing peace while in the restaurant busy talking to His friends about something about his magic apple that changed the global technology path.

But the fate of this situation was in store for both, technology legend Steve Jobs and restaurant owner Abdul Fattah al-Jandali, one of his biggest surprises, when it would later be revealed to them - and to the world - that this transitory encounter was much more than a normal encounter. In fact, this was the only time Steve Jobs had met his father, who had been searching for him for years, and never imagined that he was shaking his real biological father face to face. (1, 2)

Flashback to Jandali House

In 1931, Abd al-Fattah al-Jandali was born in the Syrian city of Homs to the notorious Jandali family in the town, which extends to an authentic Arab tribe that is said to be related to the Prophet's lineage. The family applied all the strict traditional Syrian standards of life, the father was not educated but he was very influential, and the mother was an ordinary religious housewife. A completely traditional Syrian family adheres to inherited principles and ethics, nothing out of the ordinary. (3)

After finishing high school, Abdel Fattah Jandali traveled to Beirut to attend the American University to study political science in the late 1940s, imbued with all Arab nationalist ideas. During his studies at the American University, his political interests grew. He went on to demonstrate Algeria's independence and spent several days in prison. He did not belong directly to political parties, but he was a supporter of the axes of Arab unity and interested in regional political situations, even in Lebanon, where he lived for about a year and a half later described as "the most beautiful days of his life."

In the early 1950s, Abdel Fattah al-Jandali traveled to America to begin a new phase of his life at the age of 20, where he moved to New York and joined a scholarship at the University of Wisconsin to enable him to obtain a doctorate in economics and political science. It was only a few years ago that Qadar had arranged to meet with this beautiful girl who would be the second side of the story. (4, 5)

Muslim immigrant and Catholic Catholic .. And a child hates coming everyone

As a doctoral student, it was among the academic tasks of Abdul Fattah al-Jandali to lecture in some training courses for students, to meet for the first time "Joan Carol Sheppel," which was fascinated when he saw her for the first time while attending a lecture. A blonde American of German and Swiss Catholic origin, she was almost the same age. He found an admirable relationship between them, which turned into an emotional relationship that turned into an affair between a young Syrian Muslim immigrant and a young American Catholic of pure European ancestry.

Joanne's belly was swollen several months ago, announcing the arrival of her first child from her affair with Abdel Fattah al-Jandali, who had been called John since his arrival in America. Although this is "normal" for liberal American traditions, it did not pass so easily after the problems worsened between Joan and her conservative Catholic family, which expressed complete dissatisfaction with her dating a young Arab Muslim, and expressed complete rejection of her possible marriage. She threatened to sever her relations with her completely if she continued her relationship with him.

In 1954, during Joan's pregnancy, the two traveled together to Homs to get acquainted with Abdel Fattah al-Jandali's family, and spend time with him in his country away from her problems with her family. In the end, the two returned to America and appeared to bow to the pressure of her parents by categorically refusing to marry. The two decided that the best behavior would be to give birth to Joan the child, and expose him to adopt a family that cares for him.

Later, according to al-Jandali, Joan traveled secretly to San Francisco to put her newborn son away, who came to the world on February 24, 1955, and began the journey of searching for his adopters to get rid of the child, which everyone considered comfortable for all parties to get rid of him for the benefit of a family. Other . (4, 5, 6, 7)

Akram resting place .. May that benefit us!

When Joan Sheppel gave birth to her child, she seemed - out of a sense of guilt - to leave her child in an adoption home - that the family adopting her child should be educated, Catholic and wealthy. It didn't take much time for a family to come in. The three qualities seemed to apply to them, but when they saw the child later changed their minds and said they didn't need it, they decided to adopt a girl.

Then Jobs, Paul Reinhold Jobs, was a young Coast Guard mechanic and married to Armenian-born Clara, both of whom grew up in San Francisco. Several years later, the couple knew that it was impossible to have a child because of significant uterine problems Clara suffered, prompting them to look for a baby in 1955.

The couple did not meet the three conditions; both did not receive a university education, and both did not seem so religious, they were not considered wealthy but rather the middle class - by American standards -. With both Paul and his wife insisting on adopting the child, Sheibel finally agreed to leave the child to them for adoption, having taken a direct judicial promise from them to make him go to college.

Finally, the baby moved to Paul and Clara's house to take the name "Steve Jobs." During the first six months, the mother spent time raising the child with caution and fear because she thought Steve could be taken from her biological mother at any time, and she herself told Steve's girlfriend to prevent her from loving her in particular for fear. Of his disappearance from her life suddenly. Later, two years later, Steve was a child so hard that his adoptive mother felt that they had made a mistake by adopting him, and they thought of bringing him back to the adoption shelter, which did not happen.

Later, in 1957, Patricia joined the family, another child adopted by Paul and Clara to become Steve's sister. In 1961 the family moved to a new home in Mountain View California, and Paul was very keen to dedicate a workshop in Steve's garage to "convey to him the love of mechanics in his blood." Of course, Paul did not know that his passion for mechanics would actually move to Steve, and that his child would be a two-legged technical legend in subsequent decades. (4, 5, 6, 7)

In later years

Surprisingly, just six months after Sheppel offered her baby for adoption, her father, who was determined not to marry his immigrant daughter, died. Immediately after his death, the two married and started their lives again and gave birth to a girl they called the Arabic name "Mona", while they seem to have forgotten everything about their first child left in San Francisco to become "Steve" and growing up in the Jobs family.

After Abdul Fattah al-Jandali completed his Ph.D., he returned to his homeland Syria to look for a good career opportunity, but things had worsened with his wife. After she got married to someone else, George Simpson, Mona took her new father's name, Mona Simpson, and Mona lived with her mother for a long time.

Later, Jandali will return to America again, marry several times, work as a professor at the University of Michigan and then the University of Nevada, then open several oriental restaurants in Las Vegas and California almost completely away from his first family, while the world will know Mona Simpson as a famous writer with many novels Literary works, and Richard Apple marries the author of the famous comedy series " Simpsons ". (4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Search for assets

"I never wanted my parents (Paul and Clara) to feel that they were not my parents, because they were actually my parents. They were 1000% my parents. I loved them so much and I never wanted to bother them about my interest in looking for my real biological parents, so I agreed with the people who help me in Searching to keep it a secret if they can reach them.

Steve Jobs in his autobiography by Walter Isaacson

Throughout his mid-twenties, Steve Jobs never sought to communicate with his biological father and mother, only to love and respect his adoptive parents, until Clara, his adoptive mother, was diagnosed with lung cancer. Then, Steve Jobs began spending more time with his mother, and began to learn more about the circumstances of their adoption and what happened exactly, this information motivated him to begin the search for his original biological mother.

Based on information from his adoptive mother, Jobs was able to reach the doctor who was responsible for his birth in San Francisco, but the doctor did not provide him with real help throughout his life. Soon after, like American films - but this was a documented fact this time - the doctor died, leaving Jobs a letter he recommended not to open until after his death, in which the doctor stated that his real mother was an unmarried college student from Wisconsin and her name was Joan Sheppel.

Steve did not move to communicate with his biological mother until after his adoptive mother died and after the approval of his adoptive father, Paul, who allowed him to search for his biological parents as he wanted. However, Steve asked the media to never broadcast anything about his search for his parents, out of respect for his father Paul and not to hurt his feelings.

Finally, Jobs moved to meet his real mother, saying in his autobiography that the reason for wanting to meet his biological mother was to reassure her and to thank her that she had let him come to life rather than to go to the abortion decision she could have made to get rid of him. During the meeting, his mother Schäpple was clearly impressed with Ciel's relentless apology and pain, but she did not seem to know Jobs well and his status at Apple. During the meeting, Jobs first met his biological sister, Mona Simpson, and offered her to walk for a long time and they talked about everything.

Later, Jobs's relationship with his sister, Mona, would gradually grow into a real brotherhood relationship, and she would even intervene in his personal conflicts with his family later and try to resolve it, to the extent that Jobs described him in his autobiography as "from his family" and that he did not know what he was. He would do without her, that he could not have imagined a better sister than her, and that his adoptive sister, Patricia, was never close to him compared to me. (9, 10)

Steve Jobs Jandali

"For me, they are just a sperm bank and no more, no less. I don't mean to be rude, but it was what it was, just a sperm bank, nothing more."

(Steve Jobs, in his autobiography, expressed his opinion of his biological parents, Abdel Fattah al-Jandali and Joan Sheppel. (11))

Later, as the relationship between Steve and Mona became stronger, he told her that he wanted to help her in the search for their father, who was then completely unknown to them after he was completely cut off. Led by the search for his presence in Sacramento, California, Steve Jobs decided that his sister Mona go alone to meet with their father, and stipulated that not to tell him anything at all, and let him speak.

The first meeting between Abdel Fattah al-Jandali and his daughter Mona Harra, the two spent many hours talking about everything, including his admission that she had a "big brother" he and her mother Sheppel had to offer to adopt, and that he had never seen her brother. Mona did not tell him the truth about her brother at his request not to talk about him, and then was among the stories told by her father, "Jandali" about his life that he was running a famous restaurant in the city near San Jose, and the famous technology flock to this restaurant, including the young genius "Steve Jobs"!

"Oh, yes, Steve Jobs, he was constantly coming in our restaurant, he was a nice guy and he was giving us a big tip!" So he told her in Hamas, telling her about the stories of the great tech pioneers who visited him in his restaurant during that period, which made her meet his enthusiasm with astonished silence from the shock of shock, shocking that he speaks enthusiastically about Steve Jobs and does not know that he - literally - his son! When Simpson returned to tell this amazing story of Steve Jobs, he seemed to remember the man already, and he said in his autobiography:

"This was amazing, I really remembered it. I had been to this restaurant several times, and I remember meeting the owner of the restaurant, it seemed to me that he ran or the owner of the restaurant. I knew he was Syrian, he was bald .. We exchanged peace with hands .. Just nothing more than that. ! "

It was clear that Steve Jobs was careful not to have anything to do with his father, perhaps more hostile than unimportant. "I learned a little about him, and what I did not know well about him," Steve Jobs replied when asked why he had ignored his father's communication.It seemed clear that he had taken a more hostile stance than his mother, Sheple, who showed her that he had forgiven her somewhat. In her home, however, he had an attitude towards his father because he abandoned his family and was completely passive in communicating with them later. He did not want to meet him and said in his diary:

"I had become a wealthy man, and I didn't know him. I wasn't sure about him. Maybe he tried to put pressure on me or go to the press to talk about it in detail. I asked my sister Mona not to tell him anything about me." This is what happened, and kept me a secret until it leaked to the press, and "Abdul Fattah al-Jandali" knew for the first time that Steve Jobs is his son through a website I have referred to. (4, 5, 9, 11)

Half of Syria knows nothing about Syria

"I think my son, Steve, if he grew up with a Syrian name, would have had the same success. He has a creative mind, and he didn't even finish college. That makes me think he would have succeeded no matter his background."

(Abdel Fattah Jandali talks about Steve Jobs)

Unlike his sister Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs showed no interest in knowing his Syrian heritage or origins at all. Mona was heavily involved in the Syrian-American community, and her father organized several trips to Syria, herself went to Homs and explored her native country, and is still an important symbol for Syrian-Americans. Jobs said no one had ever said he cared about his Syrian origins.

In his autobiography, Isaacson mentioned several key positions regarding Steve Jobs's relationship with his Syrian origins, including that Steve took his son Reid to dinner with his sister Simpson at her home in Los Angeles, where Reid spent some time looking at photos of his biological grandfather, Abdul Fattah al-Jandali. Mona hung it on the wall, while Jobs ignored it completely and did not stop for a moment. Steve Jobs did not seem to care at all about what was happening in the Middle East before and after the Arab Spring revolutions, and did not even form a strong opinion on anything. (5, 9, 11)

"I don't think anyone knows what to do there," he said, responding to a question from Isaacson about his view of what happened in the Arab Spring revolutions in early 2011. He asked if he thought the Obama administration should intervene in events in Egypt and Syria. To Libya, he continued: "You get involved if you do, and you will get involved if you don't!" (12)

And Syria prevents him pride!

"I don't have close ties with him, but I sent him a birthday congratulation letter soon and I received no response, but we both didn't take any steps to get closer to the other.

(Abdul Fattah al-Jandali on the possibility of communicating with his son Steve Jobs)

In the final days of Steve Jobs' life, as pancreatic cancer grew in 2006, a general question surfaced again about the possibility that his biological father could meet even out of the last farewell, but it never happened. Steve Jobs has lived his entire life completely ignoring his biological father, both in person and with his Syrian-Arab heritage. All he said about his father was to answer questions from Walter Isaacson, who wrote his autobiography as one of humanity's brightest minds in technology.

Jandali had spoken to the media about his son's illness.He said he would like to have one cup of coffee with his son Steve, which would make him very happy.He also said he would not seek to be the first to communicate with him: "This may sound strange, but I am not prepared, even if one of us is dying on my deathbed, to pick up the phone and talk to him. Steve must do it, because" my Syrian pride "prevents me from it so he does not think I am seeking his wealth!". (5, 13, 14)