* There were 2 Atallah passengers on the Titanic:
+ Malake Attalah (Female, 17 years old, died in the sinking, body was never recovered)
+ Sleiman Attala (Male, 30 years old, died in the sinking, body was never identified)
They were likely traveling separately, because their ticket numbers were not consecutive (2627
and 2694), they were traveling in different classes (her ticket cost twice as much as his),
and their last names were spelled slightly differently. They both boarded the Titanic
at Cherbourg in France on April 10, 1912. Her address of record was Beirut, Lebanon,
and his was Ottawa, Canada. He was a journalist. [Source: http://www.atallah.org/ ]
* The origin of the name Atallah is Aramaic, an ancient Semitic language that dates
back 3000 years. Since Atallah means the same thing in Arabic as in Aramaic ("Gift
of God"), when the Atallah switched from Aramaic to Arabic they kept their name.