migration

Oct 26, 2016

‘For God’s Sake Send Me Ten Lira,’: Women, Migration, and World War I in Mount Lebanon

This post is authored by Graham Auman Pitts, who is currently a post-doc in NC State’s International Studies department. He completed his dissertation at Georgetown University on the environmental history of Lebanon. The primary sources are letters from residents in Lebanon preserved in the US National Archives. You can browse these letters here. You can also… 

Sep 30, 2015

Latin America & the Arab World: One Hundred Years of Migration

This post is written by Lily Balloffet, the 2015-2016 Khayrallah Center Post-Doc Fellow. Read our interview with Lily from March where she discusses her dissertation topic of Arabic speaking immigrant communities in Argentina; her ideas of identity; and different ways that Arabic speakers assimilated into South American culture. Lily received her PhD from UC Davis and countless… 

Mar 25, 2015

Uninvited and unwelcome: a brief introduction to early Lebanese migration to Australia

This article is written by Anne Monsour. She has a PhD in history from the University of Queensland. View her full bio after the article. Despite the long and dangerous journey, nineteenth century immigration from Lebanon to Australia mirrored that from Lebanon to the Americas but only until 1901 when the newly formed Commonwealth of… 

Feb 4, 2015

Methods of Finding Population Statistics of Lebanese Migration Throughout the World

This blog post was written by Megan Cullen, Research Assistant for the Khayrallah Center. In late September 2014, I became a Research Assistant for the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. My project investigated the patterns of Lebanese migration throughout the world, in order to establish the most reliable estimates of current diaspora…