A 1950s Nabisco identification card for Victor Kuri (senior) from his time working in the Nabisco production line in Chicago. According to Maximo, Victor's job was to transport trays of finished baked products to packaging and replacing full trays…
A family history written by Maximo Kuri focused on his father's side that documents his family's life in, and leading up to leaving, Lebanon and the life of the Khourys in South Africa, in Mexico, and in Canada.
A photograph of Victor Kuri (senior) at an exhibit in the Kusak Art Gallery in Zona Rosa, Mexico City. He stands in front of an art piece with an unknown man standing on the other side.
Victor Kuri (senior), Maximo Kuri's father, playing basketball at Valvoline's No. 7. Victor became a semi-professional basketball player, joining the Mexico City YMCA at an early age, after his parents, Hanna and Dalel Khoury, separated in 1945.
Maximo Kuri's maternal grandparents, Margarita and Francisco, walking in walking on San Juan de Letran Street in the 1950s. Image captured by a street photographer.
Photograph of Guillermina Kuri, her daughter Mayela, and her husband Victor Kuri drinking jellab at a Beirut terrace during their trip to Lebanon in 2003.
Photograph of Victor and Guillermina, Maximo Kuri's parents, at their wedding on December 10, 1960. They are both looking at the camera, smiling, as they embrace each other.
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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 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
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 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.
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.
