From Urfa to Beirut: The Tale of the Terzi Family... A Dynasty Shaping the East with Golden Fingers

Al Liwaa: The story began before the tales we know were born. In 1796, Mikerdich Terzi and his family left Urfa, “present-day Turkey,” heading for Damascus to establish his first workshop. In 1860, the upheavals that swept the Levant drove Mikerdich’s descendants, Dimitri Touma Terzi, his brothers and sisters, to Beirut, while four…