Tag: lebanese-social-history
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Lebanese Emigration to the Americas: The Full Story of How Lebanon Reached Brazil, Argentina, and the New World
From Mount Lebanon’s villages to the ports of Buenos Aires, Santos, New York, and beyond, this is the history of how Lebanese migration became one of the most important stories in modern Lebanese identity. When people speak about Lebanese emigration to the Americas, they often tell it as a simple story of departure: people left,…
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The Lebanese Table: What the House Knew Before Anyone Said It
There is no dedicated dining room in the traditional Lebanese house. This is not an oversight. It is one of the most important facts about Lebanese food culture, and almost nobody talks about it. Friedrich Ragette spent years documenting Lebanese domestic architecture across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — the period when the traditional Lebanese…
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