Browse Collections (107 total)
Abdalla Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note The Abdallah family were Lebanese immigrants who lived in North and South Carolina. The family operated businesses across…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Al Jawater Newspapers, الخواطر
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Jawater, الخواطر [Reflections] was an Arabic newspaper produced in Mexico City, Mexico from 1909 to 1935. The…
Contributors: Processed by Amanda Forbes, 2021. Collection Guide created by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October-November.
Al-Ayyam Newspapers, الأيام
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Ayyam الأيام [The Chronicle] was a weekly Arabic newspaper published by Joseph (Ussef) Namaan Malouf at 60-62…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2017-2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October, and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 November.
Al-Bayan Newspapers, البيان
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Bayan, البيان [The Explanation] was a weekly Arabic newspaper published by Suleiman Baddour out of Brooklyn, New York.…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2017-2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October, and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 November.
Al-Fajr Newspapers, الفجر
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Fajr, الفجر [The Dawn] was a weekly political, literary, commercial, and humor newspaper produced by Fred G. Ghusn.…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Marjorie Stevens, 2018. Collection Guide written by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 August and November.
Al-Fatat Boston Newspapers, الفتاة بوسطن
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Fatat Boston, الفتاة بوسطن [The Young Boston] was a Syrian semi-weekly newspaper. It was published by W.E. Shakir in…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Majorie Stevens, 2017-2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 August, and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 November.
Al-Gurbal Newspapers, الغربال and Dírectorío Líbanés
Biographical/Historical note Al-Gurbal [La Criba, The Screen], was a magazine published by Lebanese immigrants in Mexico City, Mexico, from 1922 until…
Contributors: Centro Libanés
Al-Hoda Newspapers, الهدى
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Hoda, الهدى [The Guidance] was the longest-lived of the early Arabic newspapers, published from 1898 until…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2017. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2017., Addition processed by Allison Hall, Sarah Bernstein, and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023. Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October.
Al-Kown Newspapers, الكون
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Kown, الكون [The Universe] was an Arabic-language newspaper published weekly in New York City by Najeeb Sawaya, Nafi…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa, 2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa and Marilyn M. Drath, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 August.
Al-Majalla Al-Tijarriya Newspapers, المجلة التجارية
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Majalla al-Tijarriya, المجلة التجارية [The Syrian-American Commercial Magazine], was an Arabic-language monthly…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and student workers, 2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2019., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 August.
Al-Wafa Newspapers, الوفاء
Biographical/Historical Note Al-Wafa, الوفاء [Fidelity] was a semi-weekly Arabic-language newspaper published in Lawrence, Massachusetts between 1907…
Contributors: Al-Wafa was digitized by the Khayrallah Center in collaboration with Lawrence Public Library Special Collections and with thanks to Dr. Linda K. Jacobs. , Processed by Claire A. Kempa, 2017. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2017., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 August.
Albert J. Ellis Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Albert Joseph Ellis was born to Joseph and Mary Ellis in New Bern, North Carolina on June 6, 1913. He graduated from New…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Khayrallah Program staff and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December.
Alex Daye and Maronite Patriarchate Letters
Biographical/Historical note Alex Daye (As'ad al-Dayyeh) immigrated in 1889 from Tripoli, Lebanon. From the 1900s-1930s, he resided in Winston-Salem,…
Contributors: Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October-November.
Ameen Fares Rihani Papers and Audio Recordings
Biographical/Historical note Ameen Fares Rihani was born on November 24, 1876, in Freike, Lebanon. One of six children, Rihani was raised in a…
Contributors: Materials digitized in Freike, Lebanon by Walid Mourad and his team through a collaboration between the Khayrallah Center, the Ameen Rihani Organization, and the Ameen Rihani Museum., Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and Amanda Forbes., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2024 May.
Ameen Rihani Series 1: Letters
Materials in this series include over 2,800 letters, written primarily in English and Arabic, addressed to and from Ameen Rihani. The letters were…
Ameen Rihani Series 2: Personal Papers
Materials in this series include 168 letters, birth certificates, check and billing statements, travel documents, cards, newsletters, contracts, and…
Ameen Rihani Series 3: Manuscripts
This series contains 40 of Ameen Rihani’s published and unpublished manuscripts written in English or Arabic. The manuscripts were written between…
Ameen Rihani Series 4: Recordings, Photographs, and Drawings
Materials in this series include photographs of Ameen Rihani from 1896 through 1940 as well as portraits, drawings, sketches, and sculptures of Ameen…
Ameen Rihani Series 5: Press Clippings
Materials in this series include 7 bound scrapbooks containing materials written by or about Ameen Rihani, which were collected from newspapers and…
Amelia and Joseph Salem Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Joseph Ramon Salem was born in Hammana, Lebanon on May 5, 1909, to Freda George and Shikery Salem. Freda and Shikery had…
Contributors: Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Angele Hobeiche Kmeid-Ellis Collection
Biographical/Historical note Angele Hobeiche Ellis (1905-1994) was born to Alda el Khazen (1877-1945) and Namtallah Hobeiche (1863-1916) on June 12,…
Contributors: Processed by Samantha Aamot, Amanda Forbes, and Celine Shay, 2018-2020. Collection Guide created by Samantha Aamot, 2018., Translations of letters and other documents from Arabic to English completed by Dr. Hadia Harb of the Lebanese American University in Beirut and Lala AlSaeedi., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2024 April.
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection
Biographical/historical note The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCA), headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey, oversees…
Contributors: Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Processed by Celine Shay, Laura Lethers, Allison Hall, and Anna Maria Hester, 2022 November-2023 April. Collection Guide written by Laura Lethers and Allison Hall, 2023 April.
As-Sameer Newspapers, السمير
Biographical/Historical Note As-Sameer, السمير [The Entertainer] was an Arabic-language newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2017-2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October-November.
As-Sayeh Newspapers, السائح
Biographical/Historical Note As-Sayeh, السائح [The Traveler] was a weekly Arabic literary magazine that was founded by Abd al-Masih Haddad (Albert A.…
Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Khayrallah Center student workers, 2019. Additions processed by Najma Mohamud and Regan Everett, 2023-2024. Collection Guide created by Laura Lethers and Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October-November., Harvard Library
Baddour Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note The Baddour family of Goldsboro, North Carolina descends from Shickrey Baddour, who immigrated to the United States from…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December.
