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[Skeptic]

Steve Jobs: A tribute to the cousin I never met

I woke up yesterday to learn the devastating news of Steve Jobs' death. He was a close cousin of mine

• By Bassma Al Jandaly, Senior Reporter
• Published: 00:00 October 7, 2011
• ___________________________________________________________________
• Dubai: I woke up yesterday to learn the devastating news of Steve Jobs' death. He was a close cousin of mine, but we had never met or chatted.
  Steve was the son of my uncle Abdul Fattah Jandali, who left Homs in Syria and went to the US to study in the early 1950s. Soon, my uncle, born in 1934, grew fond of the American way of life and culture. He decided to live and work in the US after graduating in political science.
  Sad news always spreads far and fast. As I was getting ready to come to work, one of my cousins called from Homs to tell me that Steve had passed. But I already knew that. Another cousin from the US had broken the news early in the morning. Reem, my cousin from Homs, told me the Jandali family is shattered. Steve had convinced several family members to go to the US and pursue academics.
  And as the news sank in, I remembered how happy I was late last month when my uncle Abdul Fattah called me, remembering my family back in Homs and telling me how proud he was of me as a journalist. He said to me he would come to Dubai in the not too distant future. We chatted about our family roots and his memories of Homs, but we also talked about Steve's health and the future of Apple. It was then that I realised that Steve was not going to live much longer.
  
  
  
  
  John Abdul Fattah Jandali, father of Steve Jobs, born in 1934 in Homs in Syria.(Right) Steve Jobs
  
  Matter of time
  My uncle said to me that it was now a matter of time, and pointed to the fact that he already stepped down as the CEO of the company that he established, led and loved for a long time. Yesterday, he said: "I really don't have anything to say, I know [Steve is dead]."
  When we were children growing up in Homs, my mother Bushra Jandali Rifa'e, always mentioned a branch of the Al Jandali family who had decided to live in America. I never paid any attention.
  Another uncle, Abdul Wahid, who lives in Homs, told me that Abdul Fattah had a baby boy out of wedlock with an American woman, Joanne, and they gave him up for adoption. Abdul Fattah could not return to Syria because of this "scandal". Abdul Fattah married Joanne and they then had a daughter Mona Jandali Simpson, now a famous American novelist.
  Abdul Fattah John Jandali belongs to a prominent Sunni family from Homs. The family is a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
  Steve was born on February 24, 1955, and was named Abdul Lateef Jandali. Abdul Fattah is now the vice president and general manager at Pinnacle Entertainment, and a former professor of Political Science and Economics.
  I reflected on our connection this morning, about the family and about how scattered we all are. But even though some of us have never met, we share a bond, a connection.
  That got stronger yesterday. I wished that I had met Steve. I wished I could have said goodbye.
  
  source:http://gulfnews.com/business/technology/steve-jobs-a-tribute-to-the-cousin-i-never-met-1.887022

 

[ishwaq]

Mona Simpson (novelist)

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Mona E. Simpson (born Mona Jandali, June 14, 1957) is an American novelist, essayist, and biological younger sister of Steve Jobs. She is a UCLA professor of English.[SUP][1][/SUP]
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Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali, who was later a political science professor at the University of Nevada and is presently a vice president at Boomtown Casino and Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Her parents divorced in 1962, when Jandali was managing a refinery in Syria.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP] Her mother was an American of Swiss German descent and her father was Syrian.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] She later took her stepfather's surname, Simpson.


She is the biological sister of Steve Jobs, the late co-founder, CEO and chairman of Apple. Jobs, the elder sibling, was placed for adoption by their then-unmarried parents who married 10 months later, after Joanne's father (who reportedly opposed her marriage to a Syrian) died.[SUP][3][/SUP] Her 1987 novel, Anywhere But Here, is dedicated to her mother and "my brother Steve."[SUP][3][/SUP] She first met Jobs when they were adults, after she invited him to a party promoting Anywhere But Here where she revealed that they were siblings; Jobs was 32.[SUP][6][/SUP] The two of them forged a relationship where he regularly visited her in Manhattan. Simpson said "My brother and I are very close, I admire him enormously." Jobs said "We're family. She's one of my best friends in the world. I call her and talk to her every couple of days."[SUP][7][/SUP] The interactions between Simpson and Jobs, and learning how similar they were, had a major effect on Jobs. Steve Lohr of the New York Times wrote "The effect of all this on Jobs seems to be a certain sense of calming fatalism less urgency to control his immediate environment and a greater trust that lifes outcomes are, to a certain degree, wired in the genes."[SUP][6][/SUP] A few years earlier, Jobs was staunch on most of his character having been formed from his experiences, not his birth parents or genetics (Jobs frequently referred to his adoptive parents as "the only real parents" that he ever had[SUP][7][/SUP]). From Simpson, Jobs would learn more details about their parents, and he invited his birth mother Joanne Simpson to a few events.[SUP][8][/SUP] Simpson remains estranged from their biological father John Jandali, just as her late brother Steve Jobs did as well.[SUP][9][/SUP]
Simpson married television writer and producer Richard Appel in 1993[SUP][10][/SUP][SUP][11][/SUP] and they have two children.[SUP][12][/SUP] Appel, a writer for The Simpsons, used his wife's name for Homer Simpson's mother, beginning with the episode "Mother Simpson".[SUP][13][/SUP] They have since divorced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_(novelist)

 

[sarbakaf]

How many times Steve Reffered to his MUSLIM LINK
He followed Buddhist religion.

He was never recognized as a part of family till HE BECAME MILLIONNNAIRE....

One who follows religion of beloved prophet is more close to him compared to a family member who is not on religion. Example of relation ship with Abu Baker r.a shows the strength of love for an ummati ...while Abu Jahel was a family member but was an enemy of prophet and islam.


he was a great inventor ..has done alot of good for benifit of humanity but dont come up and prove him muslim etc just like you tried to do with Obama.

 

[junaids]

The family is a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

John Abdul Fattah Jandali, father of Steve Jobs, is now the vice president and general manager at Pinnacle Entertainment. Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc., is a leading developer, owner and operator of casino gaming resorts. More here: http://www.pnkinc.com/about_us.aspx

Lineage has nothing to do with anything. We will all be measured by our deeds.

 

[sngilani]

Family of Prophet (PBUH) does not matter if they do not accept Islam........Simple.

 

[King Brora]

I dont believe he was or that jandali family is direct descendant of our beloved Prophet MUHAMMAD pbuh. its just made up.