Feb 22, 2023
In writing our lives, we find a starting point in a memory or an experience, something we feel it is important to document. As a child, growing up under apartheid in South Africa, there were things I observed for which I had no words.
Feb 13, 2023
The Khayrallah Center is pleased to announce that the 2022 Khayrallah Prize was awarded to Pascale Seigneurie for her film, Roadblock, directed by Dahlia Nemlich and produced by Marine Vaillant.
Dec 1, 2022
The Khayrallah Center is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies.
Aug 30, 2022
This past summer (2022) around one million Lebanese immigrants visited Lebanon. Their arrival was awaited with great anticipation by many in Lebanon.
May 9, 2022
Join the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies for the 2022 conference titled "Middle East Migrations."
Feb 11, 2022
The Khayrallah Center is pleased to announce that the 2021 Khayrallah Prize was awarded to Ahmad Mohsen for his novel al-Sama'a layssat Ma'ana [Heaven is Not on Our Side], and Oualid Mouaness for his film1982. Each will receive a $5000 monetary award, for their groundbreaking work.
Jan 31, 2022
Nicholas Stanley-Price first encountered the name of Theophilus Mogabgab when doing archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus for his doctorate from Oxford University. His career since then has been mainly in international organizations dedicated to cultural heritage preservation. He lives in Rome, Italy. The name of Theophilus Mogabgab (1886-1965), a native of Famagusta in Cyprus, was well…
Sep 23, 2021
Since the 1980s, Bob Rossi has been working on a social history of Colorado coal mining communities and an account of the 1927–28 Colorado mine workers’ strike. A part of this work has entailed documenting the lives of Syrian and Lebanese families in the Colorado coalfields (1). Rossi is a retired union organizer who had…
Sep 7, 2021
This is a short blog post written by Amanda Forbes of the Khayrallah Center. If you would like to read the letters on our digital archive please click here. If you would like to read more about this family’s story and how it relates to the greater story of Lebanese immigration, check out Dr. Akram…
Jul 27, 2021
In 2020 the Khayrallah Center Archive was gifted 32 vinyl records of Arabic music from Kail Ellis as an addition to the Angele Hobeiche Kmeid-Ellis Collection, which can be viewed here and over the course of the past year the records were digitized by Jason Evans Groth at the NCSU library and can now be…
