Sep 30, 2015
This post is written by Lily Balloffet, the 2015-2016 Khayrallah Center Post-Doc Fellow. Read our interview with Lily from March where she discusses her dissertation topic of Arabic speaking immigrant communities in Argentina; her ideas of identity; and different ways that Arabic speakers assimilated into South American culture. Lily received her PhD from UC Davis and countless…
Sep 24, 2015
The Khayrallah Center’s opening reception on September 15th was a great success. The fragrance of cedar chips and Lebanese food filled the air as about 60 faculty and staff from six university departments (History, English, Foreign Language, Graduate Research, Religious Studies and Philosophy) socialized and enjoyed the flavors of Lebanese food. Students working for the center…
Sep 16, 2015
This article is written by Linda K. Jacobs. It was originally published on her website, Kalimah Press. Check out Jacobs’ other article, “Midwives int he 19th-century Syrian Colony of New York City,” published by The Khayrallah Center. In 2013, Jacobs was part of a project called “Little Syria:” Lower Manhattan Before the World Trade Center.…
Sep 2, 2015
This article is co-written by Micah Khater and Graham Auman Pitts. Khater is a graduate (’15) of North Carolina State University with a B.A. in History and French. Originally from North Carolina, Pitts completed his dissertation in Georgetown University’s History department on the environmental history of Lebanon. In all likelihood only one individual has been…
Aug 11, 2015
Jacob Norris is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2010. His book, Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development, 1905-1948, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. His current research focuses on the town…
Jul 17, 2015
This post is written by Amanda Eads, a Sociolinguistics student at NC State University. It is the final installment in a 3-part series that describes the survey she conducted and her analysis that centers on language, identity, and Lebanese heritage. In Part I and Part II of this series, I have discussed statistical results of a…
Jul 1, 2015
This post is written by Amanda Eads, a Sociolinguistics graduate student at NC State University. It is Part 2 of 3 in a series that describes the survey she conducted and her analysis. You can read Part I and Part III. Studies of identity are complex due to its multi-layered and dynamic social nature. Exploring the relationship…
Jun 17, 2015
This post is written by Amanda Eads, a Sociolinguistics student at NC State University. It is Part 1 of 3 in a series that describes the survey she conducted and her analysis. You can read Part II and Part III. I’ve had the opportunity to ask this question several times over the past year while conducting…
Jun 3, 2015
This article is written by Anne Monsour. She has a PhD in history from the University of Queensland. This article is the third and final installment in her series. Read the first installment: Uninvited and unwelcome: a brief introduction to early Lebanese migration to Australia and the second installment: Lebanese in Australia and the Politics of…
May 27, 2015
In 1908 Salloum Mokarzel (the brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of Al-Huda, one of the earliest Arabic newspapers in the US) and H.F. Otash published an Arabic/English directory of the businesses owned by “Syrians” (as all early immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean were called) in the US. The Syrian-American Business Directories cataloged the businesses of the…
