OF LEBANESE HERITAGE – A 25TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT

How has being of Lebanese descent influenced your life?

All ALHS members, their families and friends are invited to contribute. What is your lived
experience of being of Lebanese heritage? You are invited to share this experience in whatever
form you choose. It can be one sentence, a paragraph, a longer piece, a poem or even a sound
recording.

You might write about a person, an event, an object, a special memory, a photograph, a smell,
a taste, a plant/tree or personal experiences. The contributions will be put together in book
form.
Please submit your contribution/s via email to Yvonne Matta at [email protected]
and Margaret Clapham at [email protected] by 31 May 2025.

Below are some questions to consider:

❖ What is your Lebanese heritage? How far back is your connection to Lebanon? Were you,
your parents, grandparents, or great grandparents born in Syria/Lebanon?
❖ When did you first realise you were of Lebanese background?
❖ What was Lebanese about your childhood and upbringing?
❖ When do/did you feel Lebanese?
❖ Is there something you do/like/think/feel that is particularly Lebanese?
❖ Have you ever felt you are not Lebanese enough?
❖ Have you ever felt you are not Australian enough?
❖ What about language – Arabic, English? What does it feel like not understanding what is
being said?

We look forward to receiving your responses and hope many of you will participate.