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Mar 11, 2015

Meet the Khayrallah Center’s New Post-Doc Fellow: Lily Balloffet

This interview was conducted over email with Caroline Muglia, who works with the Khayrallah Center. Lily Balloffet is the winner of the 2015-2016 Middle East Diaspora Post Doctoral Fellowship, a prestigious award that is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences whose scholarly work addresses any aspect of Middle East Diasporas. Lily’s fellowship…

Mar 9, 2015

Opening Reception: Levine Museum of the New South

This article is written by our friends of the Metrolina Phoenician Club, a social and philanthropic club located in Charlotte, NC. The Metrolina Phoenician Club is pleased to have co-sponsored the Opening Reception of Cedars in the Pines: The Lebanese in North Carolina museum exhibit, held on Friday, March 6 at the Levine Museum of the…

Mar 5, 2015

Spanish Flu Grips Vermont’s Young Lebanese, 1918

This post is written by Marjorie Stevens, Assistant Director and researcher for the Khayrallah Center. Her last article was on the Creighton-Danby Collection at the Gregg Museum. In 1918, one of the most devastating pandemics in history ravaged the world. Roughly three to five percent of the global population died, or fifty to one hundred…

Mar 4, 2015

David Joseph Wins 2015 Khayrallah Prize

The Khayrallah Center is pleased to announce that Mr. David Joseph, a Lebanese-Australian playwright, was selected as the 2015 Khayrallah Art Prize winner. David was awarded this prize, which includes a $1000 monetary award, for his solo play titled Deceptive Threads.

Feb 27, 2015

Syrian-American Business Directory Project, 1908-1909

This article is written by Haley Vartanian, a student at NC State University majoring in International Studies and studying Arabic. For the past six months I have been working with Dr. Akram Khater, a history professor at NC State University and the director of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, to digitize…

Feb 19, 2015

Transforming Arabic: 20th century Lebanese authors in the U.S.

In the first three decades of the 20th century, Lebanese authors living in the United States revolutionized Arabic language and literature. In the words of Mikhail Nu’aymi, one of these authors, their purpose was: “To lift Arabic literature from the quagmire of stagnation and imitation, and to infuse a new life into its veins so…

Feb 11, 2015

Meryl Murman: Lebanese-American Artist “addicted to questions without answers”

This post is written by Meryl Merman, a Lebanese-American interdisciplinary artist. Her newest work is a choreographic residency called The Lipstick. You can learn more about Meryl and her work here. When asked where my work stems from, I often reply that I am addicted to questions without answers. I tend to use the creative process as a…

Feb 9, 2015

Dr. Jonathan Ocko: In Honor of his Compassion, Humor and Advocacy

This post is written by Caroline Muglia, Social Media Manager for the Center. She received her Masters in Public History from NC State University’s Department of History in 2011 and her Masters in Library Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2012. On January 22, 2015,  NC State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences…

Feb 4, 2015

Methods of Finding Population Statistics of Lebanese Migration Throughout the World

This blog post was written by Megan Cullen, Research Assistant for the Khayrallah Center. In late September 2014, I became a Research Assistant for the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. My project investigated the patterns of Lebanese migration throughout the world, in order to establish the most reliable estimates of current diaspora…

Jan 28, 2015

Lebanese in the Brazilian National Market

This article is written by John Tofik Karam who was a core faculty member in the Latin American and Latino Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago at the time of this writing. He now works as Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching…