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Voices from the past: Arab American oral histories
In 1962 Dr. Alixa Naff set out to tell the story of Arab immigrants from Syria and Lebanon. In addition to investigating an area that had received little scholarly attention, her use of oral history as the basis of the research was innovative. Oral history was a relatively new field in the early 1960s and, primarily, was used to document the life stories of famous people, predominantly men. Naff's proposed study of the everyday men and women who left their homes and traveled to the United States to make new lives combined oral history practices with the techniques of folklore fieldwork. The resulting interviews recorded the experiences of the immigrant generation in their own words.
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