Browse Collections (106 total)

The Romey Lynchings: A Story of Lebanese Immigrants Collection

Biographical/Historical note In the early morning hours of Friday, May 17th, 1929, a Lebanese immigrant was lynched in Lake City, Florida. He was shot…

Contributors: Sandra Moses Ryland and Teresa Bishop Angove, Processed by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2019-2020. Collection Guide written by Amanda Forbes, 2020., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2024 February.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0046/kc0046_19311211_reaction_14.pdf

Al-Gurbal Newspapers

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-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-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-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.

Father Nicola Yanney Timeline

Biographical/Historical Note This timeline of the life of Father Nicola Yanney was written and compiled by Father Christopher Morris of St. George…

Contributors: Linda Jacobs, Collection Guide written by Marjorie Stevens, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October.

Yanney, Nicola timeline.pdf

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.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0018/AEllis_027.pdf

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.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0001/Abdalla001_wm.pdf

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.

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.

Mira’at al-Gharb Newspapers, مرآة الغرب

Biographical/Historical Note Mira’at al-Gharb, مرآة الغرب [Mirror of the West] was one of the longest-running Arabic newspapers in the United States,…

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.

Beirut Consulate Post Records Collection

Biographical/Historical Note The Beirut Consolate Post Records Collection represents a selection of records from the United States Consulate in…

Contributors: Collection Guide written by Marjorie Stevens, 2016., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/gr0005/Beirut_Consulate163_RG84_NARASM_Part2OCRWM.pdf

Collection of Lawrence Public Library Materials

Biographical/Historical Note In the first decades of the 20th century, Lawrence, Massachusetts was home to one of the largest populations of Syrian…

Contributors: These records were digitized by the Khayrallah Center in collaboration with the Lawrence Public Library Special Collections., Processed by Claire A. Kempa and Marjorie Stevens, 2017. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2017., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October.

StJos_1955_Jubilee_OCR.pdf

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.

Wadea and Aelyas Kassab Memoirs

Biographical/Historical Note Wadea Kassab was born in Damascus in 1872 to an Orthodox family connected to British and American Protestant…

Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Linda Jacobs and Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0035/kc0035_001.pdf

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-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.

Creighton Family Papers

Biographical/Historical Note Clara Elise Linn was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1892. In her youth, Clara was involved the Christian Endeavor…

Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0021/kc0021_112.jpg

Kawkab Amirka Newspapers, كوكب أمريكا

Biographical/Historical Note Kawkab Amirka, كوكب أمريكا [Star of America] was the first Arabic-language newspaper published in the United States. It…

Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa, 2017-2018. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2018., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023.

Newspaper Collections

The collections linked at the bottom of this page are historic newspapers and journals.The Arabic-language newspapers held by the KCLDS Archive are…

Ameen Rihani Audio

Follow this link for the audio clips: Ameen Rihani audio

Contributors: Richard Toth, Audio Cleaning Online

Mokarzel Family

Introduction Naoum Antoun Mokarzel (1864-1932) and Salloum Antoun Mokarzel (1881-1952) were influential intellectuals who immigrated to the United…

Contributors: Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa

al hoda book_sm_wm.pdf

The Syrian World Newspapers

Biographical/Historical Note Salloum Mokarzel, a Lebanese American intellectual, founded The Syrian World in 1926. Salloum Mokarzel was the younger…

Contributors: Processed by Claire A. Kempa, 2015-2017. Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2017., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 August.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/NS0002/TSW1926_00volume1_index_reducedWM.pdf

Thomas Family

Lorraine Thomas interview with Mandy Benter, 2014

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Safy Family Papers

Biographical/Historical Note In 1894, George Joseph Safy immigrated to the United States at 26 years of age; he lived in New York City for nine years,…

Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Khayrallah Program staff and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0031/kc0031_001.pdf
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