Tanoury Family Papers

Lebanese--United States

Photographs

Biographical/Historical Note

Dahr Tanoury's paternal grandparents, Dahr Joseph and Rose Nasby, emigrated from Baskinta, Lebanon to the northeastern United States around 1917. They had three children, Edward Joseph, Virginia, and Norma. Edward, Dahr Tanoury's father, served in the Navy during World War II. He married Shirley Hughes in 1959. She had two children from a previous marriage, Shelly and Dee, and the couple had two children together, Edward Joseph and Dahr Joseph. In 1992, Dahr Tanoury moved to Raleigh for work and in 1994 joined the Triangle Lebanese Association.

Scope/Content Note

This collection contains photographs of four generations of the Tanoury family after their immigration to the United States around 1917.

Dahr Tanoury

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

1944-2008, undated

Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.

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