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