America: As an Arab American Narrator Views It
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Title
America: As an Arab American Narrator Views It
Subject
Arab Americans
Immigrants-19th century-Arab
Immigration-19th century-Arab
Description
The goal of the project is to create a digital record that documents the context surrounding the first wave of Arab immigrants who settled in America during the 19th century and became known later as Arab-Americans.
Creator
Interviewers: Madelaine Baker, Eric Branigin
Interviewee: Jackie Homsy-O'Keefe
Interviewee: Jackie Homsy-O'Keefe
Publisher
Denison University
Date
Fall 2020
Contributor
Dr. Hanada Al-Masri, project director
Cheryl A Johnson, online presentation of the digital materials
Cheryl A Johnson, online presentation of the digital materials
Rights
Arab-American Project by http://arab-american-project.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
English
Collection Items
Jackie's Family History
The interviewee talks about her family's history as they migrated from one country to another.
Food and Celebrations
Jackie speaks about the traditional holidays that she experienced as a child. She talks about the traditional foods that her family would prepare.
Language and Culture
Jackie reflects on how her father's native language affected his way of communicating in English as well as how her Middle Eastern cultural identity is based in such things as traditional foods.
Religion and Politics
Jackie discusses the impact that religion had on her life. She speaks about the Melkite Church, which is related to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and is mainly centered in Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine. She also speaks about her family's…
Arab-American Culture in Midcentury New York: An Oral History
This Scalar project aims to depict the circumstances of Arab-Americans prior to the contemporary political climate.
America: As an Arab American Narrator Views It
This project undertook the construction of a testimonial narrative on the immigrant experience and through a series of four face-to-face interview sessions, the project captured, understood and documented the family life and history of Jackie Homsy…