Tawfiq’s early life and childhood was heavily impacted by World War I, which began when he was around three years old. The 1916 famine in Mount Lebanon forced Tawfiq and his family to leave their hometown and move to Zahle, where his father decided to reestablish their losses by opening a small restaurant. Unfortunately, around that time there was a new fever outbreak in the city of Zahle, and Tawfiq’s family had no choice but to go back to the village they had to abandon before.[1]