Voices of the Mahjar: Stories from the Lebanese Diaspora

In this episode Dr. Owain Lawson and Dr. Akram Khater discuss the history of development and energy/electricity in mid-century Lebanon.

In this episode, Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish and Dr. Akram Khater discuss the expectations, debates, and transformations within both state institutions and popular movements in Lebanon as the country transitioned to an independent state.

In this epsiode, Dr. Ussama Makdisi and Dr. Akram Khater discuss a period in Lebanese/Ottoman history where thinkers and intellectuals in Bilad al-Sham began to imagine, discuss, and implement a new and secular political order to replace the old Ottoman system.

A first generation American of Lebanese descent, Helen Malhame became a leading fashion designer in New York. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

N'oula Romey was the fourth victim of racial terror that year in Florida, and one of ten people who were lynched by white mobs across the US in 1929 alone. He and his wife's tragic murders were not an isolated incident, but a part, and the culmination, of 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. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

Lebanese diasporic community organizers, avant garde intellectuals, and activists were instrumental in transforming their host societies for the better, and envisioning a more progressive and equitable Lebanon. One of these crusaders is Dr. Herbert Nassour, Jr., who dedicated his life to bringing affordable healthcare to the underprivileged in Texas. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

Lebanese diasporic community organizers, avant garde intellectuals, and activists were instrumental in transforming their host societies for the better, and envisioning a more progressive and equitable Lebanon. One of these crusaders is Dr. Herbert Nassour, Jr., who dedicated his life to bringing affordable healthcare to the underprivileged in Texas. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

Cedars in the Pines, narrates the lives of Lebanese immigrants who have journeyed from Lebanon to North Carolina and labored here 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 rests in the quiet and unassuming. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

Cedars in the Pines, narrates the lives of Lebanese immigrants who have journeyed from Lebanon to North Carolina and labored here 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 rests in the quiet and unassuming. Watch the documentary: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLZZhoUlWcHO3OPwPEPIY4mXBYY_f0sb

In the early morning hours of Friday, May 17th, 1929, a Lebanese immigrant was lynched in Lake City, Florida.

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

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

In a conversation with Kail Ellis and Alfreda Ellis, stories from the Ellis Collection come to life, including emigrating to the United States in the 1920's and the Lebanese community in Carthage, New York.  

This is a collection of interviews about Helen Malhame's life and work, with a mixture of 16 mm home movies which can be viewed on the Khayrallah Center YouTube page.

The Legacies of Labor: The Lebanese in Lawrence podcast series uses clips from oral histories to describe the experience of Lebanese-American immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950. In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Emeline Provost, and Robert Hatem describe their parents' experiences working in the mills and its dangers. You also can hear a clip of what it would have sounded like in the mills to give you an idea of the working conditions.

The Legacies of Labor: The Lebanese in Lawrence podcast series uses clips from oral histories to describe the experience of Lebanese-American immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950. In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Anthony Ramey, and Robert Hatem talk about the pressures on the children of immigrants to find work outside of the mills and the dissipation of the community as urban renewal set in.

The Legacies of Labor: The Lebanese in Lawrence podcast series uses clips from oral histories to describe the experience of Lebanese-American immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950. In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Rosalie Habeeb, Robert Hatem, and Abraham Bashara describe why their families left Lebanon and came to Lawrence.

The Legacies of Labor: The Lebanese in Lawrence podcast series uses clips from oral histories to describe the experience of Lebanese-American immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950. In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Rosalie Habeeb, and Soloman Hyatt describe what life was like for the Lebanese immigrants living in Lawrence.

The Legacies of Labor: The Lebanese in Lawrence podcast series uses clips from oral histories to describe the experience of Lebanese-American immigrants living in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1950. In this series of clips, Rosalie Habeeb and Thomas Kattar share what they heard from their parents about being in Lawrence during the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.

Juliet Bistany, Anthony Ramey, and Robert Hatem talk about the pressures on the children of immigrants to find work outside of the mills and the dissipation of the community as urban renewal set in.

In this series of clips, Rosalie Habeeb and Thomas Kattar share what they heard from their parents about being in Lawrence during the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike.

In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Emeline Provost, and Robert Hatem describe their parents' experiences working in the mills and its dangers.

In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Rosalie Habeeb, and Soloman Hyatt describe what life was like for the Lebanese immigrants living in Lawrence.

In this series of clips, Juliet Bistany, Rosalie Habeeb, Robert Hatem, and Abraham Bashara describe why their families left Lebanon and came to Lawrence.

Podcast Episode