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Meet Elizabeth Saylor, 2016-2017 Khayrallah Center Post-Doctoral Fellow

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The homepage of Fihris.org, reading "Explore Arab American History" with a search bar.

Feb 9, 2026

Fihris.org

The Khayrallah Center is thrilled to announce that Fihris.org — your resource for searching and translating the archive’s Arabic manuscripts — is now available for public use. Fihris revolutionizes the Arabic archive as we know it. It renders previously inaccessible documents immediately accessible from anywhere in the world by not only hosting manuscript images but also…
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…

May 11, 2016

Meet Elizabeth Saylor, 2016-2017 Khayrallah Center Post-Doctoral Fellow

The Khayrallah Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Middle East Diaspora Studies (with preference given to Lebanese Diasporas). This award is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences whose scholarly work addresses any aspect of Middle East Diasporas. The Center congratulates Elizabeth on her contribution to the field.  What drew you to apply for the Khayrallah Center…