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Becoming AmericanBook 1985 • Naff, Alixa
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This monograph focuses on the assimilation of the early Arabic-speaking Syrian immigrants to the United States and the significant role that peddling played in the process. The material for this study was gathered from the testimonies of pioneer immi...Belief in the evil eye among the Chriatian Syrian-Lebanese in Americaarticle 1965 • Naff, Alixa
Arab Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This short article describes the belief in the evil eye among the Christian Syrian-Lebanese in America and its gradual decline in the mid-twentieth century. The material for this study came from interviews with first generation immigrants made by the...