peddler
Complicating the Lebanese Peddler Myth
This article is co-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, and Zoe Avery who is studying Art History, French, […]
Lebanese in the Brazilian National Market
This article is written by John Tofik Karam is a core faculty member in the Latin American and Latino Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago. His research and teaching interests are ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, Brazil and what he calls “the Arab […]
“The stand” in 1895-1896 Wilmington
Newspapers in Wilmington, NC featured regular updates on the Syrian (Lebanese) immigrant community in the small town. The “stand” referred to in both articles is a peddler’s stand where foodstuffs, fresh produce or goods were sold. We are in the […]
Peddler’s license
An 1897 article in a Wilmington newspaper titled “The Peddlers License: A Word or Two About How To Many Peddlers Fake It” details the perception of Assyrian peddlers. Today, many families have ties to first-wave immigrants arriving in North Carolina […]