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The homepage of Fihris.org, reading "Explore Arab American History" with a search bar.

Feb 9, 2026

Fihris.org

The Khayrallah Center is thrilled to announce that Fihris.org — your resource for searching and translating the archive’s Arabic manuscripts — is now available for public use. Fihris revolutionizes the Arabic archive as we know it. It renders previously inaccessible documents immediately accessible from anywhere in the world by not only hosting manuscript images but also…
WE NEVER LEFT Film poster - a character pointing at a plane flying over the ocean from a beach.

Oct 16, 2025

WE NEVER LEFT

This October, the Khayrallah Center collaborated with the Triangle Lebanese-American Center to host a screening of WE NEVER LEFT, a documentary-style film born of the Lebanese diaspora’s complex feelings during a traumatic period in Lebanon. WE NEVER LEFT follows three Lebanese emigrants as they struggle with their distance from home during civil protests, the worldwide…
Withers Hall during autumn.

Sep 29, 2025

Graduate Studies: Middle East Public History

Whether your goal is a career in academia, cultural institutions, or the public humanities, this program will prepare you to shape how Middle East history is researched, taught, and shared with the world. We’re thrilled to be a part of NC State’s groundbreaking graduate program in Middle East Public History — the first of its…

Oct 16, 2025

Khayrallah Center Thinks Bigger With Research Facilitation Service

Since the Khayrallah Center first released its Arab American Newspaper Database in 2020, the collection has grown to nearly 500,000 pages of historical texts. The database helps fill a digital gap in Arab American archival material, which is challenging to digitize with common optical character recognition software. 
Call for Papers Public History in the Middle East

Sep 9, 2025

CFP: Public History in the Middle East

Conference Date: October 19–20, 2026Organizers: Qatar National Library’s Heritage Library & Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (NC State University)Location: Qatar National LibraryContact: Dr. Akram Khater and Maryam Al-MutawaSubmission Deadline: January 31, 2026 As a field that began in the US in the 1960s, public history brings to the fore the history of those whose voices and lives have been omitted from colonial…

Apr 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.

Jan 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…

Jun 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…

Mar 25, 2024

Middle East Migration Studies: Taking Stock, Plotting New Paths

The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies in conjunction with the editors of the Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies will host a workshop that seeks to offer critical reflections on the core debates and methodologies of MENA migration studies and open up new avenues for research on May 15-17,…

Jan 12, 2024

Call For Papers: “Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas”

Call for Papers: “Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas” WorkshopSeptember 13–16, 2024Khayrallah Center, North Carolina State University Palestinians have long conceived their liberation struggle as a transnational, anti-colonial movement that must necessarily build alliances with other marginalized and displaced peoples. The Americas – North, South and Central – constitute one of the key sites of…