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Image of "Jurab-Ul-Kurdy" An Arab American newspaper published in NY in the early 20th century.

Explore Arab American History

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Arab American newspapers published in North and South America from the late 1880s to the mid 1900s.

منشورات الجالية العربية في أمريكا الشمالية والجنوبية، والتي صدرت ما بين أواخر ١٨٨٠ ومنتصف القرن العشرين.

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Image of Kawkab Amirka, the first Arabic newspaper published in the US

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Khayrallah Center logo, made of stylized Kufic script in Arabic

Early Arab immigrants in North and South America have left a remarkable legacy and history. Much of their histories have been recorded in millions of pages of Arabic newspapers, books, magazines, and other publications. Yet, this rich record has been largely inaccessible because it was dispersed and stored in disparate archives, and it was not digitally searchable.

 

In 2018 the Khayrallah Center set about to change this. We wanted to create a completely searchable database of these publications by developing Arabic OCR technology to render digitized images of these pages of history into searchable text. Now, through this open source website, you can search these records in Arabic and explore a heritage that spans 70 years, two continents, and tells the stories of these early Arab pioneers.

This is a Beta version of our project. This means we are working on adding new features and fixing any issues that may emerge. So, if you encounter any problem then please do not hesitate to contact us.

We welcome your support in maintaining and growing this free archive. Please consider donating a small gift to help sustain our efforts. Also, please let us know of any publications that we can add to this archive. You can email us information using the form below.

Page from Arab American newspaper Al-Sayeh

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