May 25, 2016
This blog post is co-authored by Dr. Lily Balloffet, current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Khayrallah Center, and Darby Hehl, Spanish Language & Education Major (class of 2019) at NC State. Darby became involved with the Khayrallah Center after taking a Latin American History course with Dr. Balloffet in Fall 2015. Dr. Balloffet spent the past…
May 11, 2016
The Khayrallah Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Middle East Diaspora Studies (with preference given to Lebanese Diasporas). This award is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences whose scholarly work addresses any aspect of Middle East Diasporas. The Center congratulates Elizabeth on her contribution to the field. What drew you to apply for the Khayrallah Center…
Apr 28, 2016
On August 4th, 2020 a chemical explosion in warehouse number 12 in the port of Beirut, devastated the city. The explosion left hundreds dead, thousands wounded, and hundreds of thousands homeless. Leading up to this event, and amid the Covid-19 global pandemic, Lebanon has been facing a political crisis, a failure in its infrastructures, a financial…
Apr 27, 2016
This article is written by Dr. Akram Khater, Director, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies and a professor of history at North Carolina State University. He has published extensively on Lebanese migration to the United States. He is also the Khayrallah Chair in Lebanese Diaspora Studies, a University Faculty Scholar and the editor of the International…
Apr 15, 2016
On Monday, April 11, 2016, Dr. Maha Shuayb, the director of the UK-based Centre for Lebanese Studies delivered a public talk titled Bringing Back Hope: The Status of Education of the Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon. A packed room on NC State University’s campus of over 80 people, Dr. Shuayb spoke for 40 minutes and devoted…
Mar 30, 2016
This post is written by Amanda Eads, a Sociolinguistics student at NC State University. We published Part I of this series, Rahme Haidar-The Performer last week. Her previous writing includes a 3-part series on language and Lebanese identity. You can read Part I, Part II, and Part III on from the archives. Arab American literature began at the end…
Mar 17, 2016
This post is written by Amanda Eads, a Sociolinguistics student at NC State University. Her previous writing includes a 3-part series on language and Lebanese identity. You can read Part I, Part II, and Part III on from the archives. In the next installment of this series, author Amanda Eads will discuss Rahme Haidar, the Writer. “For…
Mar 7, 2016
This post is written by Renée Michelle Ragin, a PhD student in Literature at Duke University where her research focuses on the negotiation of national identity in post-conflict Middle Eastern and Latin American states. Wrestling with intergenerational memory in the wake of political violence is a challenge for many countries. For post-civil war Lebanon, many contend that…
Feb 18, 2016
This post is written by Claire Kempa, a MA student of Public History at NC State University. At the Center, she works on the digital archive and on Mashriq & Mahjar: A Journal of Middle East Migration Studies. Read more about this archival resource and the community member who donated it after the article! One of the most exciting additions…
Feb 10, 2016
This review is written by Joseph Geha, professor emeritus at Iowa State University and author of two books; Through and Through: Toledo Stories and Lebanese Blonde. His other books reviews include Rawi Hage’s, Cockroach and Rabih Alameddine’s, An Unnecessary Woman. Lifted by the Great Nothing, Karim Dimeschkie’s debut novel (Bloomsbury USA 2015, 305 pages) opens in 1996 in New Jersey, with two…
