Alixa Naff (September 15, 1919 – June 1, 2013) 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. The collection of her materials housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is an important of archive of primary sources documenting the lives of Arab-Americans in the 20th century.
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15 September 1919 Rashaya al-Wadi (present-day Lebanon)
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Died |
1 June 2013 (aged 93)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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