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Alixa Naff

Dr. Alixa Naff was born in Rashayya al-Wadi, a village in the Anti-Lebanon—the western mountain range of the former Ottoman province of Syria, in modern-day Lebanon. Her parents, Faris and Yamna Naff, immigrated with their two little girls to the United States in 1921. She is considered the mother of Arab American Studies.

She believed that the Arab American immigrants’ experience was important to research. When Alixa found that primary materials were non-existent, she went out and collected and preserved oral histories and artifacts. 

Oral History Works:

Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience

The Arab Americans

Alia Malek

Malek was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1974.

Her parents had immigrated to the United States from Syria. Malek graduated from JohnsHopkinsUniversity in 1996. She then earned a J.D. degree at GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter. She worked as a ci