The babysitter is related by marriage to the daughter of the Vice President of The American University of Beirut, who was photographed with Malcolm at Oxford...
I tried. It was all too complicated, no one wanted to know.
Google has it:
Fouad Sarruf - majdalany.com
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The late Fouad Sarruf, former president of American University of Beirut, and formerly with UNESCO, was my mother Lorice Sarruf\’s first cousin. I am hoping to find out more about her family, as I am planning a trip to Lebanon to see her family\’s root. I live in France and in Belgium now and am a retired university professor. Do you know if there are any Sarruf\’s living in Lebanon still?
I remember connections such as these from the research threads. I just had not seen (or missed them) those particular clear connections.
I am fairly simple minded, too; as you know.
To be clear to the simple minded and/or totally unknowing, the story needs to be told as a narrative, imho. I hope it will, some day before we all die of old age!