I am fourteen and a half years old, now understanding the whole situation. 65 years of land occupation and we will not stop fighting it. I am a proud Bassawiyeh , and proud to honour my family name and my country. The peace and love is in our hearts for our dear country, and it will stay there for many, many generations to come.

To all my country men and women. Of course I mean al-Bassa. I was born in al-Bassa, was forced out, as a child, in 1948. We crossed the mountain, hiding between boulders, to Lebanon where I was raised, went to school and also to the American
University of Beirut.
I came to the United States to study where I graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and the Medical Center in San Francisco.

I moved to Nashville, Tennessee to join the faculty of the medical school in 1969, and I am still living with my family in Nashville.

I hope many of Bassawiyis can can get my e mail address and contact me so that we re-kindle the love we have had to our beloved al-Bassa.

My great thanks and gratitude to all the people who were and are still bnehind the construction of this invaluable website.

Love to all,

Dr. Abdallah M. Isa

Ahlan wa sahlan all bassa people.

Palestine, we wont forget you.

hello all, welcome to all bassa families.... and thx all

ana bassawi min lobnan ana kteer bahib at3arraf 3ala nass ykono khassatan min ilbassa ana baftikhir inno ana min hay il baldi tag rasi wallahi
momkin at3arraf my email : [email protected]
my phone number 03434688

I thought al bassa people are very little , like me and my families and some other that we are still living in Lebanon, but I never knew its all over the world, I؟m really impressed that our hometown people still remember their home land, and their village ,keep it up؟؟؟
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME؟؟؟WE SHALL RETRUN؟؟..

salam all

Marhaba to all Bassawiyi,

I'm the daughter of both a bassawi mother and father, I live in Seattle, Washington, USA, and I'm very glad to find this site.

Someday I WILL go back to where I belong, and so will everyone who has a right to be there.

Salamat,
Rana Haddad

mar7aba esme mahmoud aldoukhi men albassa sokan lobnan ana mo2em fe alswed ta7yate elkon wweslam

Bassawi have seen this website good work go on. we will never foreget our homeland even after death.

My father is from Al-Bassa and like all of you i've grown up with wonderful stories about the place.

I now live in New Zealand...thousands of miles away, but it's sites like this which remind us of our past and heritage.

Keep up the good work

I am Bassawie I am 12 years old I am proud of my country and my bigest desire is to return to my homeland my village albassa and something else I would like to spit on Sharon and his goverment. My grandparents all of them died from sadness thank you.

I am so happy to find this web site. I'm a graduate student in film and video and I will be making my thesis video about Al-Bassa and the community we have here in Toronto. My grandparents are from Bassa, I was born in Lebanon, and we now live in Canada. If anyone has information, stories, photographs, video footage of more recent trips to Bassa, or would be willing to be interviewed please contact me by email. I am also interested in the diasporic Bassa communities that gather in various parts of the world, and how the younger generations maintain their identity.
Thanks,
Vicky Manuel.
[email protected]

I have heard so much from my grandmother and my parents about their beautiful memories in his beautiful village, and with every picture i see of albassa, I try to relate a story to it.
We cant just let our history go.Foreigners dont know of our existance there before 1948, so lets tell them, and keep the memories alive. For all, my father is Youssef Chaer.My mother is Fahime Samara,and we live in Michigan now.

As a Bassawye married to a Bassawy living between Lebanon and Canada. this website brought warm memories of my childhood, the church where we used to live next to, and the mountains that we climbed escaping to Lebanon. God bless you for your effort and I hope I can contact many of my village friends over a muhammer dish washed down by a dip of dibs wa tahynie

My grandparents' description has clearly failed to portray the stunning beauty of Al Bassa. A site that moved us all to tears. It is vital to keep track of every little village's history and the war crimes committed in it.

Thank you for putting this up on the web.

My name is K. E. Ginblat, from al-Bassa north of Akaa. Today is my first time to see photos of my Grandfather's lands which I heard so much about. I like to thank the Webmaster so much for a job well done, & to say: We SHALL remember al-Bassa untill the last Bassawi. yours, K.E. Ginblat, Ottawa, Canada

It is a pleasure to find that this little village of Al Bassa is being remembered