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Counting the Lebanese in the US: 1900-1930
This post is co-written by Marjorie Stevens and Peter Knepper. Marjorie is Senior Researcher for the Khayrallah Center with a primary focus is on archival research and development. Peter Knepper is a PhD student in Sociology at NCSU. He joined the […]
Sneak Peek: Mapping Syrian-American businesses
In 1908 Salloum Mokarzel (the brother of Naoum Mokarzel, the publisher of Al-Huda, one of the earliest Arabic newspapers in the US) and H.F. Otash published an Arabic/English directory of the businesses owned by “Syrians” (as all early immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean were […]