"Memoirs" by Wadea Kassab recounts Wadea's life from his childhood in Damascus and Bloudan, to his immigration to America in 1889, and through his pursuit of education and a career in dentistry.
A letter and stamped envelope from Namtallah Hobeiche addressed to Reverend Father Kail Ellis, 6401 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19151, U.S.A.,, dated 7 October 1980. Sent by Airmail from Beirut, Lebanon. Contains two stamps.
كتاب الغريب في الغرب [Kitab al-Ghareeb fi al-Gharb], or Strangers in the West: The Trip of Mikhail Asad Rustum to America, 1885-1895, was one of the first, if not the first, travelogues about America written by an Arab author. It recounts the…
Kawkab Amirka, كوكب أمريكا, Vol. 1, no. 36.Articles in English include: a lengthy travelogue about a trip to Greece; a history of the fall of Constantinople; and a short article about France's efforts to colonize the Saharan desert.
A photograph of the front pages of Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary's Experiences, a 1914 book by W. S. Nelson about missionary work in Syria.
