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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.

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June 24, 2025

LGBTQIA+ and the Arab Diaspora: an Oral History Collection

The Khayrallah Center’s LGBTQIA+ and the Arab Diaspora Oral History Project seeks to record and preserve the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+-identifying individuals of Middle Eastern and/or North African descent. For Pride Month 2025, we want to highlight the first four transcripts from this series, all of which are publicly accessible via the Hoda Z. Nassour…

April 21, 2025

Transformative Gift Endows Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Archive

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has received a $2 million gift to endow the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies’ archive, deepening its impact on scholarship and community engagement worldwide.

January 30, 2025

Gift Establishes Akram Khater Distinguished Professorship in Arab Migration Studies

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) recently received a generous gift from an anonymous donor to establish the Akram Khater Distinguished Professorship in Arab Migration Studies. It will support the work of a professor of any rank in Arab migration studies within the Department of History who will also serve in the college’s Moise A. Khayrallah…

Abdou’s Directory

The 676 pages of al-Safar al-Mufid (Dr. Abdou’s Travels) contain an encyclopedic amount of information. On one hand, it was an unprecedented directory of thousands of “Syrian” business owners and workers across the world. But it was also a guidebook for immigrants to help them navigate state bureaucracies and commercial transactions in a variety of countries. View the Khayrallah Center’s newest digital exhibit here.

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