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This project utilizes death certificates to determine the impact of migration on the health of first- and second-generation Arab Americans.

This extensive project digitizes and analyzes Dr. Nagib Abdou’s directory, which records 7,337 names of “Syrian” businesses and their owners, and discusses Abdou’s travels across the world.

The project, led by Dr. Graham Auman Pitts of Georgetown University with visualization by the Khayrallah Center, maps and analyzes remittances sent to relieve suffering in Lebanon during World War I.

In 1908, Salloum Mokarzel and Habib Otash published The Syrian Business Directory. Using information from the directory, this project tells the story of early Arab-American business owners in the United States through interactive maps.

This project traces New York City’s Syrian/Lebanese immigrants across three decades to examine important historical questions.

In 2023, the Khayrallah Center was gifted a diary written by Hanna Gaith who came from Yabroud in modern-day Syria and emigrated to Capilla del Monte, Argentina in 1908. In the diary, written in a common 19th century calligraphic style, Hanna narrates his own childhood, education, and political thoughts.

The Index of Arab American Archives offers a gateway for researchers to access various collections of Arab American histories housed in US institutions.

This project reclaims the hidden stories of the Arab American working class, inviting viewers to rethink the prevalent narrative of Arab immigration and include the richer diversity of immigrant experiences.

Voices of the Mahjar is a podcast-style series of interviews that brings to life the histories of the Lebanese diaspora and discusses the issues diasporic communities face across the world today.

This project explores the stories and lives of Syrian-Lebanese immigrants in Texas beginning in the 1870s, including interviews, archival images, interactive maps, and a documentary.

This digital project explores a unique collection of letters from Angele Hobeiche Kmeid-Ellis, who immigrated from Lebanon to Carthage, New York in 1926. Over time, Angele used these shared memories in her own writing as a way to transport herself back to the home she left behind.

This multi-part project features a documentary film and webpage to tell the story of N’oula and Hasna Romey, Lebanese immigrants who encountered racial terror in 1920s Florida, leading to their deaths at the hands of police and a lynch mob.

This project highlights the stories of Lebanese mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950, uncovering the rich stories of industrial workers in a New England mill town.

Written by Dr. Linda Jacobs with visualization by the Khayrallah Center, this project explores the lives of the Arbeely family, who are broadly recognized as the first Syrian family to emigrate to the US.

Using death certificates of Lebanese-Americans from 19 states, we examine how migration impacted the health of immigrants.

Using decennial census records from 1900 to 1940, we compiled demographic portraits of Lebanese in the United States.

In collaboration with the Rihani Museum in Freike, Lebanon, the center digitized and remastered a 1937 speech by Ameen Rihani. In addition, the center is digitizing a large portion of the museum’s archival holdings.

Lebanese-American surgeon Herbert Nassour dedicated his career to providing quality healthcare to the racially and economically marginalized people of Texas. However, his heavily discounted procedures threatened the economic foundation of the American Medical Association, which tirelessly worked to shut him down.

On Friday, May 17th, 1929, N’oula and Hasna Romey were tragically killed within hours of each other, falling victim to a widespread pattern of racially motivated hostility, vitriol, and physical abuse directed at early Arab immigrants who came to, worked, and lived in America between the 1890s and the 1930s.

Cedars in the Pines narrates the lives of Lebanese immigrants in North Carolina, who labored to build new homes, raise families, and enrich the state with their culture and hard work. It tells of a legacy that is as much about great accomplishments as it is about the quiet and unassuming.

Turath displays early Arab American cultural life through a multimedia virtual exhibit, presenting the work of Arab American artists, writers, poets, performers, musicians, and journalists who built a remarkable legacy of creativity.

Cedars in the Pines tells the story of Lebanese immigration to North Carolina. The exhibit premiered at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh in February of 2014 and traveled to New Bern and Charlotte, NC, before closing in August of 2015.

Composed of eight conveniently transportable panels, The Lebanese in America is a traveling exhibit that details the history of Lebanese immigration to the U.S. from 1880 through today.

Our 2025 survey found that during economic collapse, political instability, and war in their home country, the people of the Lebanese Diaspora routinely step in to provide financial, emotional, and practical support. This report offers an accessible look at who the Lebanese diaspora are, why they give, and the many ways they strengthen their homeland.

The Lebanese American Public Opinion survey is meant to gauge the public opinions of nearly 1.3 million Americans of Lebanese descent, and how factors such as age, gender, education, and income shape their views. This survey reinforced the social and political findings from the previous year’s survey.

The survey is meant to gauge the public opinions of nearly 1.3 million Americans of Lebanese descent, and how factors such as age, gender, education, and income shape their views. In this inaugural survey, we have found the majority of the Lebanese American community falls well within the center to center-left range of the political spectrum.

In Fall 2016, the Khayrallah Center and NC State’s Institute for Nonprofits undertook a joint preliminary study of Lebanese-American philanthropy. This collaborative project was a first step toward understanding what motivates Lebanese-Americans to donate (or not) their time and resources to organizations and causes, both here and in Lebanon.

Search handwritten Arabic manuscripts, letters, and historical documents.

Search historical Arabic newspapers, periodicals, and books from North and South America.

Browse photographs, letters, maps, oral histories, exhibitions, and digitized archival items.

Search collection guides, family papers, archival collections, and box lists in the Archive of Lebanese Diaspora.

Search Lebanese immigrant census records, people, households, names, and residences in the United States.

Search Syrian and Lebanese-American business owners, businesses, cities, states, and places of origin in English and Arabic.

Search senders and recipients of money through the U.S. Consulate, their residences, payment amounts, dates, and record book references.

Names, addresses, and occupations of Syrian and Lebanese business owners in Argentina, from directories published in 1917, 1927–1928, and 1942.

Infographics and census profiles describing the socioeconomic characteristics of Lebanese Americans in the United States.

Using data from the 2024 American Community Survey, the Khayrallah Center has compiled socioeconomic statistics about the Lebanese American population to compare them with the general U.S. population. The survey reveals that Lebanese Americans exceed U.S. national averages across many socioeconomic metrics, exhibiting higher income levels, greater educational attainment, and a heavy concentration in professional…

The infographic below provides a socio-economic and demographic profile of the Lebanese-American population currently residing in the US. The data were collected using the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), and particularly its 2013 3-Year Estimate. It is important to note that this survey samples–rather than counts–the population in the US with 3 million…

Research articles and book reviews on Middle Eastern and North African migration, diaspora, history, and culture.