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Feb 11, 2013

Transcript of Callie Saleeby interview online

The transcript of the interview conducted with Callie Saleeby is now on our website under the Saleeby Family collection. You can access it here. Callie speaks openly in this rich interview about her Scotch-Irish upbringing in Wilmington and Fayetteville, NC. I had to raise the children that was left when my mother died when I was twelve. And… 

Feb 7, 2013

Museum Exhibit: Graphic Design

Cultivating a space imbued with the spirit of the project through font design, color schemes, and images choices. An overt but rarely considered aspect of museum exhibits is the cohesive design of the exhibit panels and gallery space that highlight the content of the exhibit and imbue the space with a tone consistent with its… 

Feb 6, 2013

Museum exhibit: Video gaming stations

There’s no better way to understand the struggles, accomplishments, obstacles and life-changing choices of early Lebanese immigrants than to play one in a video game! As I mentioned in the last post, we are using this week as an opportunity to update the community on our progress on developing the museum exhibit! We are working with… 

Jan 30, 2013

Help us achieve our goals today!

Please take a moment to support the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies at NC State University, which works hard to document, preserve, and publicize our common legacy. We hope to raise $130,000 for the museum exhibition. * * * Dear Friends, Over the past 130 years Lebanese-Americans have created a rich legacy in North Carolina. We… 

Jan 29, 2013

Our video at AHA in New Orleans!

As proud collaborators with NC State University’s Department of Public History, the Project was excited to be featured in their short video that showed at this year’s American Historical Association meeting in New Orleans, LA. The video explored the field of public history and used the Project as a chief illustration of the great working being… 

Jan 9, 2013

In honor of Sister Mary Michel Boulus, 1926-2012

In December 2012, Mercy Sister and devoted member of the Lebanese-American community in North Carolina, Mary Michel Boulus, died at the age of 86. A woman full of zeal, Sister Mary Michel was the former President of Sacred Heart College in Belmont, NC, and was awarded the Presidential Shield of the Republic of Lebanon from… 

Jan 7, 2013

The Importance of Oral History

As many of you know, The Lebanese in North Carolina Project began as an endeavor to collect oral testimonies from members of the community; to document stories of family, work, immigration, religion, food, marriage, education and more.  And we succeeded in conducting over 50 interviews with people living around the state as well as a… 

Jan 4, 2013

Happy New Year!

We have big plans for 2013, which we’ll share with you very soon! For now, we are beginning to transcribe the interviews we conducted as part of our mission to capture oral histories of the Lebanese-American community. We started this project with the rich interview with Mr. Mitchell Mack. Mack graduated from Morrisville High School,… 

Dec 12, 2012

Project awarded $10,000 Grant from NC Humanities Council

Khayrallah Program’s Lebanese in North Carolina Project Wins $10,000:  Award granted by North Carolina Humanities Council RALEIGH, N.C—The Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies at North Carolina State University was awarded $10,000 by the North Carolina Humanities Council for the 2012 cycle. This award is to help fund The Lebanese in North Carolina Project, a 3-year old effort… 

Dec 10, 2012

Mapping Early Lebanese, Part I

This installment provides background on the year-long collaborative project with The Digital Innovation Lab. The next installment will include the interactive tools designed for the community. Telling the story of the largely unstudied Lebanese community in North Carolina would not be possible without the generous donations of family photographs and home movies as well as…