People · Family: Dabbagh

Kamel al-Dabbagh

كامل الدباغ

With his brother Abdullah, Kamel al-Dabbagh opened a tannery in Akka. Family members say the two brothers were the first to take the name Dabbagh, which means tanner. Their father was Mahmoud al-Amin. In the 1932 photograph he is remembered as the man wearing a headscarf without an agal.

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