News

Sep 19, 2013

What’s happening with the exhibit?

Hello friendly community! For the last year, the team here at the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies has been working to develop, plan, design, draft and envision a full-scale exhibit to be housed at the NC Museum of History (pictured left) starting in February 2014. Like all aspects of the projects we engage in accomplishing,… 

Sep 17, 2013

Our Director in National Geographic!

Dr. Akram Khater, the Director of the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies is at it again. In case you’re wondering, we’re not certain he sleeps either! This time he provides some historical background for the Syrian-American community. As many of you readers know, the Syrian community has a rich history of immigration to the United… 

Sep 4, 2013

Freakonomics: Lebanese Most Successful Immigrants in the World

Freakonomics, the podcast, inspired by the 2009 best-selling book of the same name, recently tackled the question: Who are the most successful immigrants in the world? Now, this is a tough question, as you may imagine. But, they attempted to answer it. And can you guess what population they pointed to as the most successful?… 

Aug 15, 2013

Lebanese in Kansas

Remember the post about the Lebanese in Kansas (here) where we featured the work of historian Dr. Jay Price? Well, he and his colleague, Sue Abdinnour wrote an article entitled, Family, Ethnic Entrepreneurship and the Lebanese of Kansas that is the cover article featured in Summer 2013 Great Plains Quarterly (GPQ), a scholarly journal housed… 

Jul 29, 2013

Helen Thomas, 1920-2013

He left his home in Tripoli, Syrian now Tripoli, Lebanon, in the 1890s as a teenager. He had only a few cents in his pocket and a talisman containing the traveler’s prayer around his neck. This month, longtime White House reporter, often called “The First Lady of the Press,” Helen Amelia Thomas died. Her impressive… 

Jul 19, 2013

Moussa Domit collection

Hello faithful readers! Happy summer! We know that the Lebanese community here in North Carolina schedules a lot of travel over the summer season to Lebanon and other areas to visit family, friends, or explore new places. So, if you are checking in on the Project through this blog or on Facebook, we have an… 

Jun 13, 2013

1.5M Americans of Arab descent: Breaking down the Census report for Lebanese-Americans

If you follow our Facebook page or if you keep up with breaking news of the Census (!), you know that the Census’ ongoing survey called American Community Survey (ACS) just released a short report and accompanying statistics that reflect the the make-up of households in the United States. Because data collection takes some time… 

Jun 11, 2013

Our Newspaper Collection is growing!

For anyone that’s been perusing our archival collection recently, you’ll know that we are constantly adding material. In the last month, the biggest concentration has been in the Newspaper Collection where we now have 224 (and counting!) materials specifically newspaper articles and clippings ranging in date from the 1880s to the 1980s from newspapers located… 

Jun 7, 2013

We will be at the Library of Congress in September

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is hosting a symposium called “Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration” from September 26-27 in Washington, DC. We have been selected as one of the Project’s that best exemplifies new ways of collecting, understanding and disseminating elements of cultural heritage. We’ll be presenting on a… 

Jun 5, 2013

2013 Summer Institute for Educators

As you may know, the Lebanese in North Carolina Project has been working with state-based educators in a collaboration designed to increase awareness of global influences in the state, foster a deeper knowledge of the role of Lebanese-Americans on the state’s history, culture, politics, religion and civic life, and to facilitate a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary…