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Browsing Digitized Materials from Michael W. Suleiman Collection by Title

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  • "Genevieve and Louisa" 
    Unknown author (Al-Hoda, 1906-06)
    Written in the form of a letter from a Syrian/Arab woman immigrant to a friend back home, it describes her life in the U.S. Extols freedom for women -- but within the bounds of what is "decent" for women. The same is ...
  • "Girls and the Selection of a Husband" 
    Sruji, Suleiman (Al-Hoda, 1904-12-03)
    Claims that Syrians/Arabs are generally not interested in educating their female children, and mainly teach them crocheting and/or send them out to peddle.
  • "Girls Should Be Careful in Selecting Their Husbands" 
    Amm, Caroline Milad (Al-Hoda, 1904-11-26)
    Writer cautions against girls marrying for love without concern for future welfare and happiness. Seeking the advice of parents is encouraged.
  • The Government's Importation of Camels: A Historical Sketch 
    Carroll, Charles C. (Government Printing Office, 1904)
    Importation and treatment of the camels are detailed carefully and named individually (p. 401). The imported cameleers are hardly mentioned except as numbers: "six Arabs," "a Turk" (p. 399), "One of the Arabs" (p. 400). ...
  • "Hebrew, Magyar and Levantine Immigration" 
    McLaughlin, Allan (Popular Science Monthly, 1904-09)
    The article provides a portrait of three different groups of immigrants in America: the Hebrews (or Jews), the Magyars, and the "Levantine Races." McLaughlin is not very positive towards the immigrants from the Levant; he ...
  • "His Partner in Good and Ill" 
    Raphael, J.G. (Al-Akhlaq, 1921-05)
    Raphael disagrees with Afifa Karam's complete exoneration of a woman who gets her husband to tie up the former lover who jilted her so that she could kill him with an iron rod. Raphael states that both the woman and her ...
  • A History of Cleveland Ohio 
    Orth, Samuel P. (1910)
    Refers to Turkish (most likely Arab) immigration to Cleveland which peaked in 1907. Table.
  • "The History of Emigration and Its Causes" 
    Unknown author (Al-Zuhur, 1910)
    Good early analysis of causes of Arab immigration to the New World.
  • The History of Syrian Trade in America - Mokarezel 
    Mokarzel, Salloum (Syrian-American Press, 1929)
  • History of the Syrian Emigration to America 
    Kherbawi, Basil M. (Al-Dalil Press, 1913)
    One of the earliest attempts to provide a sketch of "Syrian" emigration and its causes, as well as the size, composition and location of the various Arabic-speaking communities in the U.S. Though there is a near-obsession ...
  • "Household Expenses" 
    Tannous, Victoria (Al-Akhlaq, 1920-03)
    Argues that the woman should be in charge of household expenses because women are "naturally" more economical.
  • "How Could He Be Satisfied with Her?" 
    Karam, Afifa (Al-Hoda, 1904-08-02)
    Argues that an educated man cannot be satisfied with an uneducated wife.
  • "I Love Those Who Love Me and Forgive Those Who Hate Me" 
    Karam, Afifa (Al-Hoda, 1904-09-22)
    In an introduction to the article, the editor praises Karam and defends her against attackers who do not like to see a Syrian/Arab woman expressing her views in public, and who ask who she might be. Karam tells about ...
  • "I Saw Her, Then I Saw Her" 
    Bellama, Najla (Al-Sa'ih, 1922)
    Reprint of an article in a Beirut newspaper in which author denounces the false modernism of the "city" woman or some Syrian/Arab women in the West, where modesty, good manners, decency, strong family and feminist beauty ...
  • "If We Cannot Reform Women Gently, We Should Not Curse Them" 
    Karam, Afifa (Al-Hoda, 1904-07-28)
    Accusing women of malicious gossip is not fair, although some do gossip, but so do men. If Syrian/Arab women gossip, it is because they are uneducated and cannot converse about intellectual or useful topics. Men are to ...
  • "Immigrant Races in Massachusetts: The Syrians" 
    Cole, William Isaac (Massachusetts Department of Education, 1921)
    Provides background, numbers, distribution, occupations, and assimilation.
  • Immigrant Races in North America 
    Roberts, Peter (Association Press, 1912)
    Includes a brief section on "Syrians," who supposedly spoke "Syriac."
  • "The Immigrant Syrian Woman" 
    Arida, Mary (Al-Sa'ih, 1918-01-17)
    Damning and powerful statement about the backward conditions of Arab women in the U.S. They are described as ignorant, indolent and pre-occupied with food and housekeeping. The Arab-American press and Arab-American ...
  • The Immigration and Settlement of the Syrians 
    Ansara, James M. (Harvard College, 1931)
    In his thesis, James Ansara gives a history of Syrian immigration to and life in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • "Immigration and the Public Health" 
    McLaughlin, Allan (Popular Science Monthly, 1904-01)
    States that there is some truth to the notion that immigrants constitute a menace to U.S. public health. Among immigrants with high levels of disease (especially trachoma) are Syrians/Arabs. This danger is increased if ...

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