 Muqim and his eldest son Mahfouz went back to the northern regions of the country.His descendants still bear the name Mahfouz.Following social and political upheavals, the Boustanis settled in every single region of Lebanon – in Giyeh, Marj, Jounieh, Tripoli, in the Koura and the Beqaa – as well as in Syria (Damascus and Aleppo) Turkey and Egypt.