Article April 8, 2002 Issue

A 'BLENDED' FAMILY 2 religions 2 cultures 1 LOVE

with contributions from Kayed Kahlil, Amy

Kayed Kahlil was born in a refugee camp in Baalbeck, Lebanon, and raised in Shatila refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon. He is Palestinian by birth. When Kayed was 18, he received a scholarship and came to the US to study engineering. In 1990 he met Amy, an American Jew, and they fell in love and got married. Now Kayed and Amy have two children, with a third due any day. The family lives in Massachusetts. Kayed is now a chiropractor. Recently they were interviewed on the radio edition of the Sentinel.

When you two thought about getting married, was religion an issue?

Amy: Not for me. I knew that I wanted to marry Kayed because he is a wonderful man—wise, and a leader. Funny, smart, driven. All the things you would want in a husband. It didn't matter to me where he was from. Also, when I was growing up, one of the messages that my parents drove home to me was that you don't discriminate—you don't persecute people because they're different from you.

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