Mapping the Mahjar
Mapping the Mahjar is a project meant to visually represent information about Lebanese immigrants to the U.S. and elsewhere. Through visual representations, we seek to understand the social, economic, cultural, and demographic aspects of Lebanese communities. Below are essays providing such perspectives. We will continually add new essays combining text, maps, graphs, and other visuals.
- What death certificates tell us about the lives of Lebanese (Marjorie Stevens – October 14, 2014)
- Tragedy Strikes a Lebanese Community, 1918 (Marjorie Stevens – November 5, 2014)
- Methods of Finding Population Statistics of Lebanese Migration Throughout the World (Megan Cullen – February 4, 2015)
- Spanish Flu Grips Vermont (Marjorie Stevens – March 5, 2015)
- Sneak Peek: Mapping Syrian-American Businesses (Haley Vartanian – May 27, 2015)
- Counting the Lebanese in the US: 1900-1930 (Marjorie Stevens & Peter Knepper – October 28, 2015)
- How did migration affect the health of the early Lebanese American community? (Dr. Akram Khater, Marjorie Stevens, & Sarah Soleim – January 7, 2016)
- Questioning Assumptions: Gender & Lebanese Immigration (Marjorie Stevens – February 4, 2016)
- Understanding the Life and Work of Lebanese American Business Owners in the 1900s (Dr. Akram Khater – June 6, 2016)
- Michael Shadid: A Syrian Socialist (Dr. Akram Khater – August 24, 2016)
- Debut of Syrians in New York: Mapping Movement, 1900-1930 (Marjorie Stevens – September 6, 2017)
- Naif Farah: A Syrian in New York (Ethan Ley & Katherine Schinabeck — December 6, 2017)