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Jun 8, 2017

Lebanese-Americans in World War I

This article is authored by Dr. Akram Khater, Director of the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies and Khayrallah Distinguished Professor of Lebanese Diaspora Studies, and Professor of History at NC State. His latest article focuses on complicating the Lebanese peddler myth. Like other immigrant communities to the US, the Lebanese have fought in many of…

Feb 27, 2014

Press in News & Observer

Check out Akram talk about the Lebanese immigrants to North Carolina and the exhibit! “Everyone has their own stories, from the kitchen from grandma, from grandpa,” he said. “But we wanted to gather these into a common story and sort of celebrate the hard work and the many years of the contribution coming here, working…