Photograph of Alberto Kuri, Maximo's uncle, on his way to work at a night club in Tucson, Arizona where he was a Master of Ceremonies in the sixties. He was the third of Hanna and Dalel Khoury's four children.
Photograph of Bechara Khoury posed next to a flower arrangement with Farieda Khoury on the other side. Taken in late 1920s, shortly before they moved the family to South Africa.
An article written by Maximo Kuri about the city of Beirut and how it had recovered from the Lebanese Civil War. The piece was written at Wimpy's Cafeteria on Hamra Street, Beirut, on October 31, 2003. It was published by Reforma, a Mexican national…
Photograph taken of the Maximo and his siblings (in no particular order, Mayela, Guillermo, and Victor) and one unknown girl, posing in front of their pool. This photograph was likely taken in the 1970s
A photograph of a large pool and a basketball court at the Kuri home in El Pedregal de San Angel. Children are playing on the basketball court and a small jungle gym placed next to the basketball court. The Kuri family moved into a mansion on Calle…
Photograph of Dalel Khoury (resting her face on her hand) with my Victor Kuri as a baby and her other son, Jose, next to Victor, at a picnic with the Barquet family in Rio Frio, Mexico, c.1935. Ventura Barquet, future author of a popular cookbook, is…
A family photograph of the Khourys in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1961. Sometime in the 1920s, Bechara and Farieda Khoury (Maximo Kuri's paternal great great grandparents) moved the Khourys family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa as Lebanon's…
An exterior shot of Monte Cristo, a bakery/bistro operation started by the Kuri family in Canada that had three locations. It originally opened on Robson Street, in downtown Vancouver and was eventually sold by the Kuri family to a Kenyan immigrant…
A photograph of the interior of Monte Cristo, a bakery/bistro operation started by the Kuri family in Canada that had three locations. It originally opened on Robson Street, in downtown Vancouver and was eventually sold by the Kuri family to a Kenyan…
Photograph of part of the inside of Mexico Arte with Guillermina Kuri, Maximo Kuri's mother, behind the counter. Mexico Arte was a retail business that the Kuri family started in Vancouver, Canada where they imported Mexican pinewood furniture, blown…
