The Ziadie family is prominent in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, the descendants of half a dozen Maronite Catholic brothers who emigrated from Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

 in the early 1900s.

Lady Colin Campbell

Lady Colin Campbell

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, previously Georgia Ziadie, is descended from this family through her father, Michael Ziadie. She says the Ziadies have gone from being "revered to reviled to treasured as exotica" and are a more important family than the aristocrats into whom she married. The opera director Sir Peter Jonas

Peter Jonas (director)

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is her cousin, the son of Hilda May Jonas (née Ziadie), the second of fifteen children of Tewfik Ziadie, Michael Ziadie's brother.