Alain Farhi

Alain Farhi is a retired businessman with a passion for genealogy. He started tracking the Farhi families in the early 1980s and now covers many families of Middle East origins and beyond. His Les Fleurs de l’Orient website currently numbers over 147,000 families and 409,000 names. The majority of these families are Sephardim, together with Ashkenazim and Karaïtes, as well as Christians, Moslems and other religions. The site includes many personal documents and links to resources.

Farhi has been a speaker at several IAJGS conferences and Zoom lectures. He has published articles in Avotaynu (USA), Shemot (UK) and AJOE (France). Farhi is one of the founders of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (Jerusalem) , member of the Committee of NebiDaniel Association (France), administrator of the Sephardic Heritage DNA Project at Family Tree DNA and a lifetime member of the Palm Beach, Florida, Jewish Genealogy Society.

Born in Egypt and educated in France, Farhi chose the United States as his country of adoption but also lived in Singapore, Belgium, Switzerland, Taiwan and London. He is married with two children and four grandchildren.

A list and links of his speeches and published papers can be found at https://farhi.org/documents_webmaster.htm