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Withers Hall during autumn.

Sep 29, 2025

Graduate Studies: Middle East Public History

Whether your goal is a career in academia, cultural institutions, or the public humanities, this program will prepare you to shape how Middle East history is researched, taught, and shared with the world. We’re thrilled to be a part of NC State’s groundbreaking graduate program in Middle East Public History — the first of its…
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…
The backs of a family of two parents and three children staring out at a landscape.

Sep 2, 2025

Lebanese Diaspora Philanthropy Report

In 2025, the Khayrallah Center collaborated with Catherine Abou-Khalil to conduct a survey that studied the giving patterns of the Lebanese Diaspora, asking questions about remittances, donations, and more. Once the survey was complete, we compiled our findings into a report and compared them with insights from our 2016 study. Executive Summary The Lebanese diaspora…
A photograph showing Prince Abd El Ilah standing outside the Iraqian Legation in Cairo, Egypt with Nourry El Said Pasha, Daoud El Hidary Pasha, ex-Iraqian Minister to London, Mohamed Yaseen Bey, and Tahseen El Askary, Iraqian Minister to Egypt.

Aug 6, 2025

The Haddad Family Papers Collection

The Haddad Family Papers (1894-1950) collection was recently published in The Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora at the Khayrallah Center in July 2025. This collection contains materials collected by Robert Haddad and his family. Robert Haddad (1930-2024) was passionate about education. He served as the president of…
An Arabic-language newspaper, al-Sayeh.

Jul 23, 2025

Bob Haddad on Arab-American Community, Literature, and Identity: the Voices of the Mahjar Podcast

The Khayrallah Center’s newest podcast series, Voices of the Mahjar, shares the experiences of Arabs and Arab Americans living in the diaspora. In our most recent episodes, Khayrallah Center Director Dr. Akram Khater and NC State Assistant Professor Dr. Elizabeth Saylor interviewed self-identified Syrian American Brooklynite Robert Mitchell Haddad. The Khayrallah Center is fortunate to…
A person holding Pride Flag looking out at a mountain range.

Jun 24, 2025

LGBTQIA+ and the Arab Diaspora: an Oral History Collection

The Khayrallah Center’s LGBTQIA+ and the Arab Diaspora Oral History Project seeks to record and preserve the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+-identifying individuals of Middle Eastern and/or North African descent. For Pride Month 2025, we want to highlight the first four transcripts from this series, all of which are publicly accessible via the Hoda Z. Nassour…

Apr 21, 2025

Transformative Gift Endows Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Archive

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has received a $2 million gift to endow the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies’ archive, deepening its impact on scholarship and community engagement worldwide.

Jan 30, 2025

Gift Establishes Akram Khater Distinguished Professorship in Arab Migration Studies

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) recently received a generous gift from an anonymous donor to establish the Akram Khater Distinguished Professorship in Arab Migration Studies. It will support the work of a professor of any rank in Arab migration studies within the Department of History who will also serve in the college’s Moise A. Khayrallah…
A decorative banner reading "NC State University Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Alixa Naff Migration Studies Prize 2024"

Jan 14, 2025

2024 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies Winner

The 2024 Alixa Naff Book Prize is awarded to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky for his book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. In Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, Dr. Hamed-Troyansky examines the transformative role of Muslim refugees from the North Caucasus in shaping the late…
Tarzan comic strip in Arabic. Al-Hoda Newspaper

Oct 17, 2024

Tarzan in Arabic

“Who is Tarzan?” Salloum Mokarzel (1881–1952) asked this question in his November 18, 1932, editorial in Al-Hoda. He wrote it as an introduction to, and in anticipation of, the debut of the Arabic-translated Tarzan of the Apes comic strip that was to appear in al-Hoda over the next thirteen years. In an effort to appeal…