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The Journey of America’s First Arab Immigrants
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The Untold Story of America’s First Arab Immigrants
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Carneys: Carnival Impresarios of the Early Syrian Diaspora
There is a long history of Arabs performing in the United States, beginning before the Civil War when North African acrobatic troupes (some including women) traveled around the East Coast and as far west as Iowa, performing athletic feats and tumbling on vaudeville...
The Syrian Colony of Boston, 1890-1910
(Above): Syrian women sewing at Denison House, Boston, 1912. It is interesting to compare the Syrian colonies of New York City and Boston. Both cities were major ports in the nineteenth century and, along with Providence and Philadelphia, were east coast entry points...
THE SYRIAN COLONY ON WASHINGTON STREET and the “Lost” Lower West Side
The lower west side of Manhattan, part of the historic First Ward, was a vibrant, architecturally significant neighborhood before it was completely obliterated by the construction of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and the World Trade Center in the mid-twentieth century....
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