Alixa Naff

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.

Biography Alixa Naff was born to Faris and Yamna Naff in Rashaya al-Wadi, a village located in present-day Lebanon within the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. followed by a Ph.D. in 1972.

Alixa Naff died from a short illness at her home in Mitchellville, Maryland, on June 1, 2013, at the age of 93.

Publications by Alixa Naff

Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. The Arab Americans. Chelsea House Pub, 1998. (Juvenile Non-Fiction) "Growing Up in Detroit," in Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Wayne State University Press, 2000.