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OUR FAMILY
BAROUD & AYUBI
THROUGH PAST & PRESENT
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The Baroud family has been in curacao for over 85 years. They began, like immigrants during that period of 1920’s, to join the growing economy and serve the community of Curacao. 

 

The presence of a lot of jobs on the island presented a great opportunity for the baroud family to come. This increased the demand for various types of businesses in order to keep up with the economic growth. That made Curacao attractive for many immigrants. 

 

The family participated in different types of enterprise such as the retail and production of furniture, mattresses and mirrors, and also department stores. Even today a lot of the Baroud family lives on the island on curacao

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Fantasia is a traditional equestrian performance practiced during cultural festivals in the middle east. Fantasia is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is "Game of gunpowder''.

 

It consists of a group of horse riders, wearing traditional clothes and charging along a straight path at the same speed so as to form a line, at the end of the ride (about a two hundred meters) all riders fire in the sky using old gunpowder guns. The difficulty of the performance is synchronization during the acceleration and specially during firing so that one single shot is heard. Gunpowder is called 'Baroud' and traditional gun 'moukahla', hence the name "la3b el baroud" or "game of gunpowder".

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