Grandparents are a bundle of joy for each and every family. They teach us many life lessons... and growing up with their love and care makes them even more special.
Hearing stories of how they lived, how they grew up, and what they've been through amazes us because of how much times have changed.
Here are 10 Arabs who shared on Twitter how special their tetas and jeddos are:
1. Vintage cards
"Teta and Jeddo's wedding invitation."
2. Forever young
"A picture of the late legend Melhem Barakat, his friend, and my grandpa at my grandparent's house. That's not the point... the point is check where my grandfather's hand is!"
3. Role models
"Other photos of my late grandfather Hajj Hussein Ahmed Bin Khamis in 1948 with his brothers and relatives standing to defend Palestine and Jerusalem. May they rest in Peace."
4. Couple goals
5. Educated teta in an era when women were rarely educated
"My grandmother, may God have mercy on her, with my uncle on the balcony of their house with a dedication to my grandfather in 1964 ... My grandmother was educated and her handwriting was beautiful."
6. When your teta is quite the poet
7. This grandma was the bomb
8. When your teta is your BFF
9. Jeddo's house is here to stay
10. When visiting Jerusalem was possible
"My grandfather Mubarak and my father Saad al-Rumaydi and uncle Muhammad (may God have mercy on them) visited Jerusalem in1963 before it was closed by Zionists."