Browse Collections (110 total)
Tanoury Family Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Dahr Tanoury's paternal grandparents, Dahr Joseph and Rose Nasby, emigrated from Baskinta, Lebanon to the northeastern…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
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.
The Syrian Society of the City of New York Reports
Biographical/Historical Note The Syrian Society of The City of New York was established in 1892 with the aim of "promot[ing] the welfare of the Syrian…
The Syrian Spotlight Newspapers
Biographical/Historical note The Syrian Spotlight of the South was a Syrian periodical based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1935, The Syrian Spotlight…
Contributors: Materials donated by Elaine Viel in memory of her mother Margaret Macey, co-founder and associate editor of The Syrian Spotlight., Processed by Amanda Forbes, 2019. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 October.
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.
The World of Kahlil Gibran Collection
Biographical/Historical note Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), or Khalil Gibran, was born on January 6, 1883 in Bsharri to a Maronite Christian…
Contributors: Processed by Nay Ackhar, 2022 and Sarah Bernstein, 2023. Collection Guide created by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October.
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.
Wael and Lama Abou-Chakra Papers
Biographical/Historical Note Wael Abou-Chakra, the third of four children, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in December 1968. His family fled Beirut and…
Contributors: Processed by Khayrallah Program staff. Collection Guide content contributed by Claire A. Kempa and updated by Allison Hall, 2023 November.
Zaytoun and Murman Family Photographs
Biographical/Historical Note Ellis Zaytoun was born in Hammana, Lebanon on May 30, 1890. He immigrated to the United States in 1906 along with two of…
Contributors: Processed by Celine Shay, 2021-2022. Collection Guide content contributed by Celine Shay and updated by Allison Hall, 2021-2022 and 2023, December.
