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The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies has put together “Turath,” a digital exhibition to understand and celebrate the history of Arab American contributions to art, literature and press. The exhibit is the culmination of a year of attempts at understanding the historical impact of race in America as well as a divisive conversation about immigration for at least the past three presidencies.
Headed up and curated by Akram Khater, the director of the Khayrallah Center and a history professor; Marjorie Stevens, senior researcher; Mandy Paige-Lovingood, an NC State public history Ph.D. candidate; and Samantha Aamot, an NC State public history M.A. candidate, the exhibition marks the centennial celebration of the re-establishment of al-Rabitah al-Qalamiyya, an early Arab American literary society, in 1920. According to Stevens, the exhibition focuses on Arab Americans between 1880 and 1940. ....

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