2013

Apr 2, 2013

Why celebrate the Lebanese festival?

This weekend marks the 15th annual Lebanese festival held in downtown Raleigh. The Triangle Lebanese Association has done a wonderful job promoting this event, so check out their website for details. The Khayrallah Program for Lebanese Studies will also have a table! Stop by and say hello! Beginning in 1998, the Festival seeks to celebrate…

Mar 13, 2013

Kathryn Findelin sings her heart out (at Meredith College!)

The Lebanese community has made generous contributions to North Carolina from business to politics; from culinary endeavors to science and technology. Kathryn Findlen, daughter of Dorothy Findlen and granddaughter to Alma Farris (the youngest 96-year-old we know!) is making her contribution on the stage. A Mezzo Soprano who grew up in North Carolina, Kathryn is…

Mar 8, 2013

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Today, at the Library of Congress, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, delivered an exhilarating talk called  “The Loss and Rebirth of the Library of Alexandria.” His talk began with a discussion of the ancient library in Alexandria including some of its earliest advocates to today’s modern library complete with digital materials. Over…

Mar 7, 2013

Educating North Carolina

The Project is working hard to expand our community by way of education. Our collaboration with education consultant Linda Robinson of Connections-NC, Inc. allowed us to create a comprehensive experience for all North Carolina residents focused on the contributions of Lebanese Americans on the state, the region and the country. With Linda’s help, we created…

Mar 5, 2013

Mashriq & Mahjar

This is a post about the new peer-reviewed academic journal organized by the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies. Yes, we’ve been busy! But, before I wax poetic about the journal itself, I’d like to take you on a tour of sources. Riveting, I know! Here’s a quick tour that I’m called Anatomy of a Source.…

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.…

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…