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Mar 30, 2016

Rahme Haidar – The Writer

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…

Mar 17, 2016

Rahme Haidar – The Performer

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.…

Mar 7, 2016

When to Stop Archiving

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

Archive Spotlight: Basil M. Kerbawy, Early Lebanese American Historian and Advocate

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…

Feb 10, 2016

Book Review: Karim Dimeschkie’s, Lifted by the Great Nothing

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…

Feb 4, 2016

Questioning Assumptions: Gender & Lebanese Immigration

This post is written by Dr. Akram Khater, Director of the Khayrallah Center, and Marjorie Stevens, Senior Researcher at the Khayrallah Center. For similar posts, check out migration and health, and Lebanese in the US Census. At the entrance to the Port of Beirut there stands a statue of a man in 19th century village…

Jan 19, 2016

Two Poems from Jacobo the Turko, a work-in-progress

This post is written by Phillip Bannowsky, an Instructor of English at University of Delaware. He served as secondary English Chair at both Academia Cotopaxi in Quito, Ecuador (1992-95) and at International College in Beirut, Lebanon (2002-05). Phillip has published a novel, The Mother Earth Inn (2007), and two volumes of poetry, The Milk of Human Kindness…

Jan 15, 2016

Joseph Geha Wins 2016 Khayrallah Prize

The Khayrallah Center is pleased to announce that Mr. Joseph Geha, a Lebanese-American author, was selected as the 2016 Khayrallah Prize winner. Geha was awarded the Khayrallah Prize, which includes a $2500 monetary award, for his novel Lebanese Blonde. Early next year, Geha will travel to NC State for a public ceremony in which he will receive the award and read from his…

Jan 15, 2016

Previous Winners of the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies: 2014-16

See past winners of the Khayrallah Center prize in migration studies.

Jan 14, 2016

Bodies in Motion: Middle East Migrations

The Moise A. Khayralla Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies hosted an international conference titled Bodies in Motion at NC State University.