by Wolfgang Metzger | Nov 14, 2017
The Disappointed Consul: Nageeb J. Arbeely By Linda K. Jacobs in Jerusalem Quarterly When President Grover Cleveland nominated Nageeb J. Arbeely to the post of consul of Jerusalem in 1885, it was startling in many ways. First and foremost, Arbeely was an immigrant...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Nov 25, 2015
The Main Gate: American University of Beirut Linda K. Jacobs wrote an article about some of the first graduates of the American University of Beirut (AUB), which was then called the Syrian Protestant College, in the AUB’s magazine, The Main Gate. Read the full...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Oct 16, 2015
Gendering Birth and Death in the Syrian Colony of 19th Century New York City by Linda K. Jacobs, Mashriq & Mahjar 3, no. 1 (2015), 65-78 The present paper describes three Syrian midwives and four Syrian doctors who lived in the nineteenth-century Syrian colony of...
by Linda K. Jacobs | Oct 16, 2015
Playing East: Arabs Play Arabs in 19th Century America by Linda K. Jacobs, Mashriq & Mahjar 4 (2014), 79-110 This article explores the practice, widespread among the diasporic Syrians and North Africans of the nineteenth century, of pretending to be Arabs. “Arabs”...
