Diaspora History
The history of the varied Lebanese Diaspora communities is rich with stories of challenges, accomplishments, frustrations, successes and failures. It spans the globe geographically, covers over 150 years of recent history and touches on every conceivable topic. Here we highlight some of those stories. The articles are listed chronologically by their date of publication with the most recent essay appearing on top.
General
- Ameen Rihani, Lebanese activist for Palestine (Dr. Jacob Norris – August 11, 2015)
- Mary Mills (1912-2010): African-American Nurse in Lebanon (Micah Khater & Graham Pitts – September 2, 2015)
- Adoptive Diaspora (Dr. Raja Abillama – October 19, 2015)
- Teaching the History of Lebanon (Dr. Akram Khater – July 5, 2016)
- “For God’s Sake Send Me Ten Lira’: Women, Migration, and World War I in Mount Lebanon (Dr. Graham Pitts – October 26, 2016)
- Transplanted Family Trees – In Search of Yazbek: What Makes Us Who We Are? (Cecile Yazbek – February 1, 2017)
Australia & New Zealand
- Uninvited and unwelcome: a brief introduction to early Lebanese migration to Australia (Dr. Anne Monsour – March 25, 2015)
- Lest we forget: Australian Lebanese and the Great War ~ 1914-1918 (Dr. Anne Monsour – June 3, 2015)
- Lebanese in Australia and the politics of whiteness (Dr. Anne Monsour – December 22, 2015)
- The Chasm of Assimilation – My Mother’s New Zealand Cousins (Cecile Yazbek – September 7, 2016)
North America
- How the Lebanese Became White? (Dr. Akram Khater – November 20, 2014)
- Lebanese Women and the Right to Vote (Dr. Akram Khater – December 3, 2014)
- Midwives in the 19th-century Syrian Colony of New York City (Dr. Linda K. Jacobs – December 17, 2014)
- Transforming Arabic: 20th century Lebanese authors in the U.S. (Dr. Akram Khater – February 19, 2015)
- From Pageant Queen to U.N. Worker: The Rosemary Hakim Collection (Dr. Matthew Jaber Stiffler & Elyssa Bisoski – April 22, 2015)
- InfoGraphic: Lebanese Americans (Dr. Akram Khater – August 28, 2015)
- The Myth and the Anti-Myth of the Syrian Immigrant (Dr. Linda K. Jacobs – September 15, 2015)
- ”Syrians” and Race in the 1920s (Dr. Akram Khater – April 27, 2016)
- Arbeely Family: Pioneers to America and Founders of the First Arabic Language Newspaper (Dr. Akram Khater – November 30, 2016)
- The Desire for Progress in The Syrian World: Education (Nicole Coscolluela – January 4, 2017)
- Southwestern Syrians: Los Arabes of New Mexico: Compadres from a Distant Land (Dr. Jay Price – April 26, 2017)
- Complicating the Lebanese Peddler Myth (Dr. Akram Khater and Zoe Avery – May 10, 2017)
- Lebanese-Americans in World War I (Dr. Akram Khater – June 8, 2017)
- Annie Abdo: A Peddler . . . A Tulsa Woman (Hakim, Randa, Claire Kempa, Marilyn Drath, & Marjorie Stevens — October 10, 2018)
- Fighting Injustice: The Story of Herbert Nassour (Dr. Akram Khater — March 25, 2019)
- “A Boatload of Horses”: Alan Jabbour’s Family Immigration Saga (Dr. Sabra Webber — April 26, 2019)
- A Waking Dream: Syrian Migrants’ Journey to the Americas (Randa Tawil — June 25, 2019)
- Passing a Camel Through Ellis Island: Arab American Press and the Immigration Act of 1924 (Diogo Bercito — August 28, 2019)
South Africa
- Albinos in the Laager – Being Lebanese in South Africa (Cecile Yazbek – June 21, 2016)
South America
- Lebanese in the Brazilian National Market (Dr. John Tofik Karam – January 28, 2015)
- Latin America & the Arab World: One Hundred Years of Migration (Dr. Lily Balloffet – September 30, 2015)
- “The Many Labors of Progress”: Digitally Mapping the Arab-Argentine Community (Dr. Lily Balloffet – May 25, 2016)