The Snare  
“Arabia—a pilgrim returns from Mecca to find he has been mulcted of his money.”           
In Oriental Stories, Vol 2, No 3, Summer, 1932

A Woman of the Hills       
Short Story Fiction, Language: English, 1933
Published in Magic Carpet.

Hillbred 
Fiction, Language: English  
​Originally published in Asia Magazine in December 1936.
In 1947, published in The World of Great Stories: 115 stories, the best of modern literature.

A recently found newspaper article from the McDowell County Observer dated Friday, July 10, 1936 stated that Arreph, a local writer, recently received word that the first installment of his short story, Resurrection is to appear in this month's edition of Syrian Light, a monthly newspaper published in Oklahoma City.  "There will probably be three installments of the story", the author said.  A copy of this article is shown on this website in the section Family News, Family History page created for Arreph.  The article goes on to mention other published stories by Arreph including Wager and Bride of the Brave which appeared in Syrian World, The Snare (see above) which was published in Oriental Stories and A Woman of the Hills (see above) which appeared in Magic Carpet.  He has also written short stories for Colliers. 

Colette Khoury (Arabic: كوليت خوري) (also written as Kulit Khuri, Colette al al-Khuri, Colette Khuri) is a Syrian novelist and poet, born in 1931, daughter of Suhail al-Khoury, who is also the granddaughter of former Syrian Prime Minister Fares al-Khoury. Khoury graduated from Damascus University with a bachelor's degree in French literature and she received a diploma from the school of literature in Beirut. Khoury's notability stirs from her work in politics and literature. Her work as a writer focuses on love and erotica, a subject that was previously taboo in Syrian culture.  In 1959, her book Days With Him (Ayyam Maahou) shocked the Arab world in which she wrote openly about love.   

Colette was born into a notable family, as her grandfather, Fares al-Khoury is known as a hero for his resistance to the French. In addition, her father had been minister for village and town affairs. Khoury was also very patriotic, as she wrote several collections of stories about the 1973 October War, also known as the Yom Kippur War one of which was called Luminous Days (1984).

Khoury was a pioneer of Arab feminism, and wrote angry stories in the 1950s about men and their selfishness. Khoury's career began in 1957 and has spanned more than 6 decades. Her literary career began with the publication of a collection of poems in French entitled "Vingt Ans" (Beirut, 1958).  In it Khoury expressed her discontent with social constraints and the emptiness and aimlessness of her life; she also described her attempts to find salvation in love. Much of Khoury's work stemmed from her desire to avoid blatant retaliation; writing was the best and only way she could express herself. Khoury dedicated her work to immersing herself in the female psyche, particularly defending women's right to love. Khoury once said, "Since I always felt the need to express what was welling up inside me...the need to protest, the need to scream...and since I didn't want to scream with a knife, I screamed with my fingers and became a writer."  Many of Khoury's stories covered topics like love and erotica, particularly from a female's perspective. Khoury has written more than 20 novels, as well as many political and literary articles.

• Days With Him - Ayyām maʻah (1961)
• One Night - Laylah wāḥidah (1961)
• Kiyān (1968)
• Dimashq baytī al-kabīr (1970)
• Qiṣṣatān (1972)
• Wa-marra ṣayf  (1975)
• Daʼwah ilá al-Qunayṭirah  (1976)
•  al-Ayyām al-maḍīʼah : qiṣaṣ (1984)
• Wa-marra ṣayf : riwāyah (1985)
• Imraʼah : majmūʻat qiṣaṣ (2000)
• al-Marḥalah al-murrah : qiṣaṣ ṭawīlah (2002)
• Sa-talmisu aṣābiʻī al-shams : qiṣṣah ramzīyah (2002)
• Fī al-zawāyā-- ḥakāyā : tisʻ qiṣaṣ wa-masraḥīyah (2003)
• Kūlīt Khūrī : būḥ al-yāsmīn al-Dimashqī (2008)
• Wa-yabqá al-waṭan fawqa al-jamīʻ (2010)

Alixa Naff was a Lebanese-born American historian. She focused much of her research on the first wave of Arab American immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century.

Dr. Naff is considered the mother of Arab American Studies. She believed that the Arab American immigrants’ experience was important to research. When she found that primary materials were non-existent, she went out and collected and preserved oral histories and artifacts.

Alixa Naff was born to Faris and Yamna Naff in Rashaya al-Wadi, a village about 8 miles north of Kfeir Zeit, located in present-day Lebanon within the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1921. They arrived in Spring Valley, Illinois on January 1, 1922, and lived there until moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1929. They moved to Detroit, in June 1931, where her father worked in the grocery industry.
Naff documented Arab immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This first wave of mostly Christian immigrants was the first major emigration from the Middle East to the U.S.  Naff donated her collection of artifacts and oral histories from early Arab immigrants to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Naff had driven throughout the nation to collect oral histories and family heirlooms for the collection. She amassed more than 450 oral histories, 2,000 photographs, and more than 500 artifacts. The personal and household objects included such items as kibbe pounders, Middle Eastern musical instruments, peddler’s boxes, and clothing.

The Faris and Yamna Naff Collection, which was named in honor of her parents, is available for research through the National Museum of American History.
Dr. Naff’s work has been featured in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She has also appeared in numerous television and radio programs, including NPR and CNN.

Dr. Naff’s work is important because it helps to shed light on the often-overlooked history and experiences of Arab Americans. She has shown that Arab Americans have played a vital role in American society since the late 19th century and that they continue to make important contributions to the country today.
 
Articles and Chapters in Books
 
Arabs In America: A Historical Overview, Chapter 1, pp 8 – 29, of “Arabs in the New World,” Edited by Sameer Y. Abraham and Nabeel Abraham. Wayne State University, 1983
 
The Early Arab Immigrant Experience, pp. 9 - 22, in The Development of Arab-American Identity, edited by Ernest McCarus, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1994
 
Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (2000)
Wayne State University Press
 
“Arab American and the War on Terror: From Patriotism to Profiling” (2002)
 
‘The Syrian American Diaspora and the Making of an Arab American Identity” (2004)
 
“Arab Americans and the Politics of Citizenship” (2006)
 
“The Arab American Experience in the post-9/11 Era” (2008)
 
“Arab Americans and the 2008 Presidential Election” (2009)
 
“Arab Americans and the 2016 Presidential Election” (2017)