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Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Preserving Histories, Sharing Stories

The Khayrallah Center is dedicated to research about Lebanese immigrants in the US and throughout the world, and to preserving and sharing that knowledge with the scholarly community and general public.

Recent News

October 17, 2024

Tarzan in Arabic

“Who is Tarzan?” Salloum Mokarzel (1881–1952) asked this question in his November 18, 1932, editorial in Al-Hoda. He wrote it as an introduction to, and in anticipation of, the debut of the Arabic-translated Tarzan of the Apes comic strip that was to appear in al-Hoda over the next thirteen years. In an effort to appeal…

June 18, 2024

Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas Conference

The Middle East and North Africa Centre at the University of Sussex, the Centro de Estudios Árabes at the University of Chile, and the Khayrallah Center at North Carolina State University are co-organizing this conference on the centrality of Palestine within the wider American mahjar (land of migration), inviting contributions from scholars, writers, and activists. The conference will…

May 21, 2024

The Migration of Hanna Gaith

The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies is excited to announce the release of The Migration of Hanna Gaith, a digital humanities project that traces Hanna’s journey to “Amirka” in 1904. Hanna Gaith left behind a detailed, handwritten diary that tells the story of his migration patterns, his desire to leave Yabroud (located in modern-day…

Turath

The Khayrallah Center invites you to visit Turath, a groundbreaking virtual exhibition about early Arab American cultural life. It narrates this rich heritage through a multimedia exhibit that explores Arab American artists, writers, poets, performers, musicians and journalists who built  a remarkable legacy of creativity.

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What We Do

Learn about the mission and work of the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies.

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