Turath K-12 Lesson Plans on Lebanese Migration History
The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies and the Lebanese Association for History Unveil Groundbreaking K-12 Lesson Plans on Lebanese Migration History. [Raleigh, May 26, 2023] – The Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, in partnership with the Lebanese Association […]
Ameen Rihani and Zoe Norris: Cross-Cultural Friendship of Writers at the Ragged Edge
Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn, former Antiques Columnist at The New York Times, writes about art, architecture, and design for the Times among other publications. She is biographer of artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857-1907) and writer Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914). […]
Visible at Last
This article is written by Cecile Yazbek who was born into a Lebanese family in East London, South Africa. She studied social sciences at Rhodes University and moved to Australia in 1986 where she continues to write. She is the […]
Summers of Promises and Disappointments
This past summer (2022) around one million Lebanese immigrants visited Lebanon. Their arrival was awaited with great anticipation by many in Lebanon. Aside from long delayed and much needed reunions with families and friends, their return was expected to bring […]
The Moghabghab Family in Cyprus,New York and Madeira, 1878-1974
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, […]
Syrian Families in the Colorado Coal Mining Communities
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 […]
Archive Spotlight: The Reverend Tobia Attallah Letter Collection
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 […]
My Mother’s 78 RPM Arabic Record Collection
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 […]
Alan Jabbour, “A Cultured Man”: Foodways, Music, and Syria Dreamin’
This blog was written by Folklorist, Sabra Webber. Webber is a professor emerita at The Ohio State University in the Department of Comparative Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She visited the Khayrallah Center in the […]
The Arab American Archive Collaborative: Enriching the Field by Increasing Public Access to Early Arab American Life
In July 2019 archivists, librarians, and researchers from the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, the Arab American National Museum, and the Houston Metropolitan Center partnered for a National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) Planning Grant titled: […]