Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection

Arabs--United States

Newspapers--United States

Arabic Periodicals

Arab American Newspapers

Biographical/historical note

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCA), headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey, oversees seven dioceses with over 250 parishes in the United States and Canada. 

The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication The Word is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic Al-Kalemat appeared in 1933, and the English iteration The Word began anew in 1957.

The original copies of the periodical are housed at the Antiochian Heritage Library in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Antiochian Heritage Library was founded in 1987, and its collections focus on information about early Christianity, the theology of the Orthodox Church, and religious and cultural themes in Middle Eastern history. 

Scope/content note

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection includes both Arabic-language volumes of Al-Kalemat and English-language volumes of The Word (also called Al-Kalemat, Al Kalimat, Al Kalimah, and الكلمة), covering the years 1905-1993. The periodical focuses on current events and debates from an Antiochian Orthodox perspective. 

The periodical is written and published by The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and continues to be published monthly excluding July and August. Some years and issues are not included in the collection, and there are some years that the publication did not run.

The collection also includes various parish commemorative booklets from Antiochian Orthodox churches in different regions of the United States, including but not limited to, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York.

The English-language volumes are located here on the KCLDS Archive's website. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s Arabic Newspapers database.

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

1905-2013

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.

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For a list of all the volumes and issues of Al-Kalemat held by the Khayrallah Center please see here.

Antiochian Heritage Library and Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America