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Browsing Digitized Materials from Michael W. Suleiman Collection by Title

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  • "Afifa Karam" 
    Rustum, As'ad (Al-Hoda, 1904-11-24)
    A poem in praise of Afifa Karam.
  • Al-Ayam's Treasury of Great Personalities 
    Maloof, Joseph N. (Al-Ayam Press, 1899)
    Includes a section on Arab immigration, the Arab American community, its socio-economic conditions and press. Pictures.
  • "Al-Islah Moves Away from New York" 
    Unknown author (Al-Mushir, 1900-06-13)
    The editor/publisher of Al-Mushir, Selim Sarkis, reports that Al-Islah newspaper will move out of New York City in order to re-appear bigger and stronger. Sarkis encourages Shibel Dammous, the editor of Al-Islah, to devote ...
  • "Al-Muqtataf and Al-Jami'ah's Call to Engage in Farming" 
    Antun, Farah (Al-Jami'ah, 1908)
    Concludes that for Arabs in the U.S., it is more beneficial to stay and farm than to return home. Farming is favored over peddling, which becomes a source of shame and embarrassment.
  • America Save the Near East 
    Rihbany, Abraham Mitrie (Beacon Press, 1918)
    Rihbany wrote this book as a plea to the U.S. to "save the Near East," mainly "Syria" -- i.e., present-day Lebanon, Syria, Mandatory Palestine and Jordan. In the process of arguing that "Syrians" are capable of ruling ...
  • "America's Only Moslem Mosque to Go" 
    Unknown author (Moslem [Muslim] World, 1923-01)
    Discusses tearing down the only mosque in North America at that time. The mosque had been built by Mohammad Karoub, an "immigrant from Arabia."
  • "American Citizenship" 
    Nakad, Khattar Yusuf (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1914-05-14)
    Argues against panic in the wake of denial of citizenship to George Dow, in South Carolina, based on argument that Syrians were not white. Calls for petitioning Congress on the issue.
  • "American Naturalization and the Rights of Man" 
    Shumayyel, Shibli (Fatat al-Shara, 1909-12)
    Author criticizes the head of the Naturalization Council in the U.S. as unrepresentative of Americans as a whole when he denied "Syrians" the right to American citizenship. He calls for changing the statute on which the ...
  • "The American's Distrust of the Immigrant" 
    McLaughlin, A.J. (Popular Science Monthly, 1903-01)
    Argues that most desirable immigrants for U.S. are unskilled laborers and those between the ages of 15 and 45. Based on these criteria, Syrians/Arabs rank low. Also, they are rated less desirable because of their relatively ...
  • "The Americanized Syrian Girl" 
    Azkul, Mikhail (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1915-07-29)
    Cautions Syrian/Arab girls against abandoning the wonderful qualities and conservative behavior of Syrians/Arabs. If they are to become Americanized, they should follow the example of the better-class American girl -- who ...
  • "Andromak" 
    Unknown author (Al-Mushir, 1896-04-18)
    Reports that, on 14 March 1896, members of the "Syrian Youth Society" in New York performed the play "Andromak," which had a large audience of "Syrians" and Americans.
  • Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1903 
    U.S. Congress, House of Representatives (Government Printing Office, 1903)
    Much statistical information about immigration (to and from) the United States by Syrians/Arabs and those from Turkey or Turkey-in-Asia.
  • "Answers to Questions from Samuel Barbay" 
    Mubarak, Yohanna Jirjis (Al-Hoda, 1904-12-08)
    Reports that there were 88 Syrians in Fond du Lac, WI, most of them working in factories, except for six peddlers and one shoe repairman. The city also had three hand-written newspapers.
  • "Arab Fugitives from Cayenne" 
    Unknown author (New York Daily Tribune, 1878-12-12)
    Eight Tunisian prisoners in jails in French Guiana escaped and arrived in New York where they were given jobs chopping wood.
  • "Arab Women and Turkish Women" 
    Muhaysin, Mohammed (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1915-01-12)
    Finds Turkish women more liberated than Arab, especially Muslim, women. The New World magazine, the Arabic-speaking magazine, established in U.S. by Afifa Karam is good -- but has hardly any signed articles, other than ...
  • "The Arabic Language in America" 
    Unknown author (Al-Hilal, 1907-10)
    Details the names and years of establishment (with some mistakes) of Arabic newspapersin the U.S., as well as some of the Arab literati there.
  • "Arabic Newspapers in the World" 
    Unknown author (Al-Hilal, 1903-10-15)
    Includes a list of Arabic newspapers published in the U.S.
  • "Are the Syrians Arabs?" 
    Ajami, Tawfiq (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1914-12-04)
    The writer states that Syrians are not worthy of claiming that they are Arabs since they have not acted like the proud, self-respecting Arabs who would not have tolerated Turkish rule.
  • "An Article about Syrian Women Peddlers in the U.S." 
    Hajj, Yusuf (Kawkab America, 1893-09-01)
    Agony and shame are expressed at the alleged bad behavior of Syrian women peddlers.
  • The Assimilation of the American Arab Community in Greater Washington 
    Childe, Cromwell (New York Times, 1899-08-20)
    Attempts to take the "romance" out of accounts about Little Syria, especially the lower Washington Street section. States that only the poor live there whereas rich Syrians/Arabs do business in Little Syria by day and get ...

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