This collection is made up of digitized materials and is open for research.
The English-language volumes in this collection are provided on the Khayrallah Center Archive’s website for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s Arabic Newspapers database.
For any questions regarding the materials, please contact the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive at kcldsarchive@ncsu.edu.
Materials in this collection dated 1905-1956 are in Arabic. Materials dated 1957 to the present are in English.
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCA), headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey, oversees seven dioceses with over 250 parishes in the United States and Canada.
The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication The Word is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic Al-Kalemat appeared in 1933, and the English iteration The Word began anew in 1957.
The original copies of the periodical are housed at the Antiochian Heritage Library in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Antiochian Heritage Library was founded in 1987, and its collections focus on information about early Christianity, the theology of the Orthodox Church, and religious and cultural themes in Middle Eastern history.
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection includes both Arabic language volumes of Al-Kalemat and English language volumes of The Word (also called Al-Kalemat, Al Kalimat, Al Kalimah, and الكلمة), covering the years 1905-1993. The periodical focuses on current events and debates from an Antiochian Orthodox perspective.
The periodical is written and published by The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and continues to be published monthly excluding July and August. Some years and issues are not included in the collection, and there are some years that the publication did not run.
The collection also includes various parish commemorative booklets from Antiochian Orthodox churches in different regions of the United States, including but not limited to, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York.
For a list of all the volumes and issues of Al-Kalemat held by the Khayrallah Center please see here.
This collection is arranged chronologically by type beginning with newspapers and ending with a selection of parish commemoratives.
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
These materials are digital copies of an original resource held by another institution. The KCLDS Archive often works with other institutions to make digital materials available online to the public. KCLDS is not able to grant permission to use or reproduce these materials. The KCLDS Archive strongly encourages users to contact the holding institution for permission to use or reproduce materials from their holdings.
[Identification of item], Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection, NS 0021, Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora
Gift of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, 2022 November (Accession No. 2022.005).
Processed by Celine Shay, Laura Lethers, Allison Hall, and Anna Maria Hester, 2022 November-2023 April. Finding aid created by Laura Lethers and Allison Hall, 2023 April.
This collection is made up of digitized materials and is open for research.
The English-language volumes in this collection are provided on the Khayrallah Center Archive’s website for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s Arabic Newspapers database.
For any questions regarding the materials, please contact the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive at kcldsarchive@ncsu.edu.
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[Identification of item], Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection, NS 0021, Hoda Z. Nassour and Herbert R. Nassour Jr., MD, Archive of Lebanese Diaspora
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
These materials are digital copies of an original resource held by another institution. The KCLDS Archive often works with other institutions to make digital materials available online to the public. KCLDS is not able to grant permission to use or reproduce these materials. The KCLDS Archive strongly encourages users to contact the holding institution for permission to use or reproduce materials from their holdings.