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- ↑ "Digital Archive" . Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ↑ "Museum Exhibit". Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ↑ PBS North Carolina Presents Cedars In The Pines, 2012, retrieved 2022-05-16
- ↑ Price, Jay (February 21, 2014). "New exhibit explores history of Lebanese immigrants in NC". News & Observer.
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- ↑ Price, Jay (October 14, 2014). "NCSU gets $8.1 million gift to start center to study immigration". News & Observer.
