Browse Collections (109 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.
Bearta Al-Chacar Powell Photographs
Biographical/Historical Note Bearta Al-Chacar Powell was born in Ma’asser El Chouf, Lebanon to Ramiz Al-Shakar and Isabelle Maalouf, the fourth of…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
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.
Bracewell and Rizk Family Photographs
Biographical/Historical Note Houda Rizk Bracewell was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Soumaya Sokhn and Nassif Elias Rizk. She had three brothers, Elie,…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Carolyn Dorroll Photographs
Biographical/Historical Note Carolyn Monsour Dorroll was born on February 11, 1928, in Garland, North Carolina, the oldest child of Lebanese…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Charles Abed Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Charles “Charlie” Ibrahim Abed was born in Kano, Nigeria, in 1959, to Lebanese immigrants. The second youngest of five…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Christina Civantos Collection of Books
Biographical/historical note Dr. Christina E. Civantos, Ph.D. is a Full Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the…
Contributors: Processed by Amanda Forbes, Jordan Smith, Celine Shay, Harrison Camp, and Rachel Beth Acker, 2018-2020. Collection Guide written by Amanda Forbes. , Collection Guide contributed by Christina Civantos, 2018 December., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 June.
Collection of 20th Century Arab Music
Biographical/Historical note The music in this collection was performed by Arab Americans during the twentieth century. Some materials have been…
Contributors: University of California, Santa Barbara University Libraries Department of Special Collections, Collection Guide written by Claire A. Kempa, 2017., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 October.
Collection of Arabic Newspaper Clippings
Biographical/Historical note Mahmoud Fayad [Kattar Ferris Fayad or Khnattas Faris Fayad] arrived in the United States on August 30, 1909. He became a…
Contributors: Processed by Amanda Forbes, Margie Stevens, Rachel Beth Acker, and Dr. Amin Elias, 2019-2024. Collection Guide created by Laura Lethers, 2024 July.
Collection of Khalil Joseph Letters
Biographical/Historical Note Khalil Joseph was a Lebanese immigrant to the United States, specifically to West Virginia, in the late nineteenth and…
Contributors: Processed by Celine Shay, 2022. Collection Guide content contributed by Lala Al Saeedi and updated by Allison Hall, 2022 and 2023 December.
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.
Collection of North Carolina Newspaper Clippings
Biographical/historical note Robert H. Hartmann worked with Beverly Tetterton, a librarian at New Hanover County Public Library, to find newspaper…
Contributors: Collection Guide written by Khayrallah Center staff., Collection Guide and collection metadata updated by Laura Lethers and Ginni Leeman, 2024 August.
Collection of Reverend Tobia Attallah Letters
Biographical/historical note Reverend Tobia Attallah was a reverend of the Maronite Church who lived in Bayt Shabab village in Lebanon in the early…
Contributors: Processed by Amanda Forbes and Lala Al Saeedi, 2020-2021. Translations contributed by Akram Khater, 2020-2021. Collection Guide written by Amanda Forbes., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 June.
Creighton Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Clara Elise Linn was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1892. In her youth, Clara was involved in the Christian Endeavor…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December.
Diogo Bercito Collection of Books
Biographical/Historical note Diogo Bercito is a Brazilian journalist and scholar who specializes in Arab migration to Latin America. As a journalist,…
Contributors: Processed by Amanda Forbes, Celine Shay, Harrison Camp, and Rachel Beth Acker, 2020 and 2022., Collection Guide content contributed by Diogo Bercito, 2023 November., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2023 November.
Domit Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Moussa Domit was born May 24, 1932, in Mazraat al Toufah in Zgharta, Lebanon to Majed Moussa Domit and Jamili Yousef…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Edward Saleeby Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Edward Saleeby's father, Nasry Rashid "Charlie" Saleeby (an elder brother of Elijah Saleeby), was born in Lebanon in…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 December., Collection Guide updated by Laura Lethers, 2024 April and 2024 September.
El-Khouri Family Papers
Biographical/Historical note Joseph Maroun El-Khouri was born in 1924 in Kour, Batroun, Lebanon to Reverend Joseph Michael Maroun El-Khouri and Mariam…
Contributors: Marsha El-Khouri Shiver, Processed by Khayrallah Center staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Ginni Leeman, 2024 July.
Elizabeth Saylor Collection of Books by Women Arabic Writers
Biographical/Historical Note Salmā Sā’igh, Salwā Salāma, and Afīfa Karam were three prominent literary figures born in Syria in the 1880s. They each…
Contributors: Collection Guide content contributed by Elizabeth Saylor, 2017., Collection Guide updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Farris and Parker Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Dorothy Findlen descends from Samuel [Samir] “Sam” Abdo Parker (1890-1954) and Helen Kelly Parker (1891-1985). Helen…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Frank Lackteen Papers
Biographical/Historical note The Frank Lackteen Papers are a collection of documents, primarily correspondence, related to Frank Lackteen that were…
Contributors: Processed by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 . Collection Guide created by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October.
Fred and George Kadane Papers
Biographical/Historical note Fred and George Kadane were brothers born in Baskinta, Lebanon along with their sister and brother Charles (1889-1961).…
Contributors: Processed by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 . Collection Guide created by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October.
General Reference Collections
The collections linked at the bottom of this page are general reference collections held by the KCLDS Archive.
The collections include books,…
Habit Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note John Francis Habit immigrated to the United States with his brothers at the beginning of the 20th century. After settling…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Ishak Family Photographs
Biographical/Historical Note Doumit Ishak was born in Lebanon in 1964. He moved to the United States in 1985 and began college in Tennessee, but left…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
