Community Read 2023-2024: Hadha Baladuna

Through stories of individuals and families, this exhibit traces the histories of Arab immigrants to the United States through four periods, starting in the 1880s through the present

Explore items in the Smithsonian Museum related to Arab American History and Culture - including photographs, paintings, documents, booklets, and other artifacts

The Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection is the result of research conducted by Dr. Alixa Naff relating to the study of the early Arab immigrant experience in the United States from about 1880 through World War II. The study began with oral history interviews in 1962 and became a major project in 1980 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It documents the assimilation of Arabic speaking immigrants in the United States. The full collection is housed at the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution.

"Little Syria was a cultural hub of New York’s first middle eastern community. It was the home of Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani and their Arab-American circle of educators and intellectuals. It was the neighborhood in which the linotype machine was converted to Arabic characters, a device which would revolutionize Arabic-language journalism throughout the world: the first Arabic language newspapers in North America are printed in New York, beginning with Kawkab America in 1892." This blog links highlights items from the New York City Library's collections related to Little Syria

Unsettled Lives documents the history of Iraqi migration to metro Detroit in the wake of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

"Halal Metropolis is a series of exhibitions that explores the facts, fictions and the imaginaries of the Muslim population(s) in Detroit and South-east Michigan as viewed through historical and archival research, documentation of current conditions, and explorations of future desires. "

"In Michigan, immigrant families have created a distinctive custom of converting their basements and garages into social spaces." This online exhibit explores this and other customs that adapted Dearborn architecture.