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CORRECTION! Our Facebook Live AMA is at 12:00 PM EST on June 24, 2026.

We are excited to be hosting our first AMA next week!! 👀 Have any questions for us regarding the history of Lebanese immigrants worldwide? Leave them in the comments below, and we'll do our best to answer all of them!

In light of the exceptionally difficult circumstances facing Lebanon, the Lebanese Government has launched a global humanitarian alliance to provide direct cash assistance to families impacted by the ongoing crisis, in partnership with trusted humanitarian organizations, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save the Children, World Vision, CARE International, Himaya Daeem Aataa, and the Danish Refugee Council.

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Our Nassour Archive of Lebanese Diaspora now has a Frequently Used Collections page!! Visit it to check out the top 10 most visited collections of the month:

The Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora Welcome to The Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora, housed in the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. This archive is made possible in large part thanks to the generous gift provided by Jimmy Nassour and Dina J....

The book Qaryati ʿUyoun al-Wadi, which details the history of the Saabeq Maalouf family to places in Central America, South America, and North America, was written in 1978 by Dr. Hanna Elias Maalouf. The Saabeq Maalouf family originated in Beka, Lebanon, and settled in Oyoun Al Wadi in the early 18th century. Oyoun Al Wadi is a rural village located in the Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians) region of Syria.

The Beathe Family Papers (1978-1983) are now live on our archive website, containing this book in its entirety! Check it out here: https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/94506 #?c=&m=&s=&cv=

This , we're highlighting the Kahdy and Wehbie Family Papers, which document the lives of George Kahdy, Nellie Mettrey Wehbie Kahdy, and their three children, Barbara, George, and Georgette.

In 1944, George met Nell Wehbie through his parents, who were friends of Mike and Mary. At the time, Nell was working as a high school teacher in Warsaw, North Carolina. She also worked for the Red Cross in Washington D.C., where she lived with her sister, Amelia, and Amelia's husband, Joe Salem. On July 9, 1944, Nell and George married at Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh. While George was stationed at Eglin, the couple lived in Milton, Florida. They had their first child, Barbara, on July 14, 1945. On January 16, 1948, they had twins George and Georgette.

This collection spans over decades of the family's history, showcasing not just the lives of George and Nell, but also the upbringing and adult lives of their children and even grandchildren.

Read more about the family using our finding aid: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/kc0026

Or, view the collection on our archive website: https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/119

Your Family, Your History is one week away, and spots are almost full! Make sure to RSVP to save your spot in this interactive webinar, which will give you the tools you need to preserve your Lebanese family history ✅

https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/nVD8K9BXQs-FBeVfcz5p5Q #/registration

“This is the first ever full-text searchable Arabic manuscript archive, made possible through the proprietary AI model that we have developed at the Khayrallah Center,” explains Khayrallah Center director Dr. Akram Khater. “Now, you can enter one or more words, and Fihris will retrieve the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of documents that contain that/those word(s).”

We are excited to share that Fihris has been featured on the International Federation for Public History's blog, Bridging! Read it here: https://ifph.hypotheses.org/7764