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‘Bodies in Motion’ Conference Recap

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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…

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,…

May 9, 2022

Middle East Migrations: 2022 Conference

Join the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for the 2022 conference titled "Middle East Migrations."

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…

Jan 9, 2020

New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations: 2020 Conference

The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (NC State University) will host an international conference—titled New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations —at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) on September 11 – 13, 2020. The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, in conjunction with the editors of Mashriq & Mahjar: The Journal of Middle East and North African…
Bodies in motion

Apr 1, 2015

‘Bodies in Motion’ Conference Recap

This article is written by John T. Karam, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University, the conference, “Bodies in Motion: Middle East Migrations,” revealed not only a ship, but rather an entire caravan with ever-expanding…