Jerusalem - القدس الشريف: The Palestine Education Company on Salladin Street in 1964 - The company was established first in 1910 by Wadia Said ( Edward's Said Father) and his cousin Boulos Said. the business located first in the New City--More in the comments section

The Palestine Education Company on Salladin Street in 1964 - The company was established first in 1910 by Wadia Said ( Edward's Said Father) and his cousin Boulos Said. the business located first in the New City ( currently known as West Jerusalem) and had made a sizeable profit selling not only educational supplies imported from Europe like books and stationery, but the latest European office technologies, including calculators, typewriters, and other office machines. The company was headquartered in Jerusalem, with branches in Jaffa and Haifa and an import warehouse in the Port of Haifa by the 1930s.Seeing in Palestine the seeds of conflict, Wadie decided to open a branch of the family company in Cairo in the 1920s. He took over the new branch in Cairo, expanded its product base by importing new machinery from the US, and renamed it Standard Stationery. with Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1952 military coup toppling the monarchy and installing a socialist republic with him as president. As part of his widespread reforms, Nasser nationalized the economy and seized the assets of foreign nationals, including the Said family’s substantial businesses, factories, and workshops. With everything lost in Egypt, and with the Said family businesses in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa confiscated by Israel, Albert (Boulos Son) opened the Palestine Educational Company in East Jerusalem on Salah al-Din Street, as well as a branch in Amman a year later. When the War broke out in 1967, The Saids again lost their business in East Jerusalem.