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Where the Coffee Never Stops: Syrian-Lebanese Qahwa Spots Are Quietly Reshaping American Community Life
Food & Culture

Where the Coffee Never Stops: Syrian-Lebanese Qahwa Spots Are Quietly Reshaping American Community Life

From Chicago's northwest side to the streets of Dearborn, a new wave of Syrian-Lebanese coffee houses is doing a lot more than serving cardamom-spiced qahwa. These spaces are becoming living rooms for diaspora communities — places where Arabic flows freely, grandparents argue about backgammon, and a twenty-something born in Houston can hear her grandmother's dialect for the first time.
Their Stories, Their Camera: A New Wave of Syrian-Lebanese Women Filmmakers Is Changing What Gets Seen
Heritage & Identity

Their Stories, Their Camera: A New Wave of Syrian-Lebanese Women Filmmakers Is Changing What Gets Seen

For too long, Syrian and Lebanese women appeared in American films mostly as background figures or symbols of a distant conflict. Now, a generation of Syrian-Lebanese female directors and screenwriters is flipping the camera around — and the stories they're telling are complicated, funny, heartbreaking, and completely their own.
Feed Everyone First: What the Syrian-Lebanese Table Really Means in America
Food & Culture

Feed Everyone First: What the Syrian-Lebanese Table Really Means in America

In Syrian-Lebanese households across America, the act of feeding someone is never just about food. It's a declaration, a memory, and sometimes a quiet form of resistance. We sat down with families in three different cities to talk about the meal rituals they've carried across oceans, the concept of diyafa that shapes how they host, and what it means to keep a table set when so much else has changed.
Heritage & Identity

Oud in the Algorithm: How Syrian-Lebanese Artists Are Winning Over American Ears

From TikTok clips that stop mid-scroll to Spotify playlists curated by curious college kids in Ohio, Syrian-Lebanese music is quietly having its American moment. Second-generation musicians are blending the oud, the mijwiz, and centuries-old maqam scales with hip-hop beats and indie pop production — and audiences are genuinely hooked. We talked to some of the artists leading the charge about what it means to make music that lives between two worlds.
Grandma's Hands Know the Recipe: How Syrian-Lebanese Home Cooks Are Keeping Culture on the Table
Food & Culture

Grandma's Hands Know the Recipe: How Syrian-Lebanese Home Cooks Are Keeping Culture on the Table

Across kitchen tables in cities like Detroit, Dearborn, and Los Angeles, Syrian-Lebanese grandmothers are doing something quietly extraordinary — turning everyday cooking into an act of cultural preservation. We talked to families navigating the delicate, urgent work of capturing recipes before they exist only in memory. Here's what they told us, and how you can start doing the same.
Digging Through Borders: A Practical Guide to Tracing Your Syrian-Lebanese Roots Through DNA and Family Records
Heritage & Identity

Digging Through Borders: A Practical Guide to Tracing Your Syrian-Lebanese Roots Through DNA and Family Records

Whether your family left Beirut in the 1890s or fled Aleppo more recently, piecing together your Syrian-Lebanese ancestry is both more possible and more complicated than ever before. Between modern DNA tools and old-fashioned archival digging, diaspora members across the US are uncovering stories that borders and time tried to bury. Here's where to start.