2021
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 […]