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  • "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 ...
  • "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.
  • "The Enemy of Newspapers Is also Their Prisoner" 
    Unknown author (Al-Mushir, 1897-12-25)
    This article most likely is by the editor/publisher of Al-Mushir, Selim Sarkis, who attacks the Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Hamid for clamping down on newspapers in his empire--while currying favor with them in Europe and America. ...
  • "Emigration" 
    Atallah, Iskander (Al-Kalimah, 1909-09-15)
    States that, out of two million "Syrians," half a million emigrated to North and South America. Not being used to freedom, some of them turned it into license (some even committing bigamy) to the embarrassment and shame ...
  • "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."
  • "My Syrian Neighbor Tells Me Stories" 
    Jenness, Mary (The Survey, 1921-10-29)
    A series of Arab folktales told to the author by a Syrian/Arab immigrant neighbor. In the process, as introductory remarks, the author paints a sympathetic picture of Arabs.
  • "Elections in the United States and the Syrians" 
    Juhayna (Al-Ayyam, 1898-10-10)
    On the occasion of gubernatorial elections in New York, the writer compares freedom in the U.S. with tyranny and injustice in Ottoman Turkey where poor economic conditions caused Syrians/Arabs to emigrate to the U.S. Calls ...
  • "Will the East Rebel?" 
    Juhayna (Al-Ayyam, 1898-11-14)
    This incomplete series of perceptive articles discusses the need for "Syrian" rebellion against the Ottomans--and what is required for success. Areas of discussion include newspapers, rights and obligations if citizens, ...
  • "Syrians and Emigration" 
    Unknown author (Al-Ayyam, 1898-03-03)
    Notes increase in emigration from "Syria" and encourages Syrian/Arab immigrants to move beyond their two trades (store owners or peddlers) if they are to succeed.
  • Reports of the Immigration Commission, Abstracts of Reports of the Immigration Commission 
    Unknown author (Government Printing Office, 1911)
    Under "Races or Peoples" are entries for "Arabian," "Mongolian, Mongol, Mongolic, Mongoloid, Asiatic, or Yellow Race," "Syrian," and "Turkish." Arabians are Semites, Syrians are "Christians and Aryans, not Semites" p. 217, ...
  • "Why the Leadership of Jesus?" 
    Rihbany, Abraham Mitrie (American Unitarian Association, 1910)
    For Unitarians, Jesus provides a good example of a "leader" to follow, not a savior in the traditional Christian sense.
  • "A Just Word" 
    Antun, Elias (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1915-04-02)
    In the dispute over whether to stay under the Russian Orthodox church or to follow the Antiochian Church, the writer (and the newspaper?) favors the Russian Church and claims that it has been most generous to the Orthodox ...
  • "The Black Soldier" 
    Unknown author (Al-Hoda, 1918-04-20)
    This translated essay is in praise of the Black soldier, especially the fighting by Blacks in various wars, beginning with the American Civil War, and including WWI.
  • Fifty-Three Years in Syria 
    Jessup, Henry Harris (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1910)
    Brief references to Syrian/Arab emigration to the United States.
  • "Our Social Life [in America]" 
    Arida, Raphael (Al-Sa'ih, 1921)
    Views of Arida presented in an interview: Syrian merchants seem to devote all their time to trade and then talk about it, with no interest in other cultural issues; women's rights are trampled, while equality of sexes is ...
  • Immigrant Races in North America 
    Roberts, Peter (Association Press, 1912)
    Includes a brief section on "Syrians," who supposedly spoke "Syriac."
  • "The Meaning" 
    Sam'an, Khalil (Al-Hoda, 1898-05-03)
    A poem depicting the life and the peddling trade of Syrians/Arabs.
  • Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance 
    Putnam, F. W. (Thomson Publishing Co., 1894)
    Includes pictures of Arabs from Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, etc. who were at the 1893 Columbian World Fair in Chicago.
  • Which Side [Are We On]? 
    Ajami, Tawfiq (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1915-04-19)
    The writer argues that "Syrians," despite their claims of patriotism, have not helped "Syria." They did, however, rush to provide financial help and to volunteer in the American army in the war against Mexico.
  • "The Call to go into Farming" 
    Rustum, Mikhail As'ad (Meraat-ul-Gharb, 1912-08-21)
    In an article and a poem, the writer approves of and supports the call for Arab Americans to go into farming as the trade that is more respectable and especially more profitable than peddling.

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