Arab American Bar Association of MA: Boston Little Syria Walking Tour
About this Event
Join the AABA of MA for a walking tour of Boston's historic Little Syria, led by Chloe Bordewich, co-founder of the Boston Little Syria Project.
The Boston Little Syria Project (www.bostonlittlesyria.org) preserves and shares the history of Boston’s first Arabic-speaking neighborhood, which thrived between the 1880s and the 1950s in today’s Chinatown and South End. It was once home to thousands of immigrants from Ottoman-controlled Syria, but few visible traces remain. Working closely with descendants, the initiative has engaged the public in the story of this diaspora community through walking tours, exhibitions, oral histories, a digital map, and the digitization of family archives.
Chloe Bordewich is co-founder of the Boston Little Syria Project with Lydia Harrington. She holds a PhD in modern Middle Eastern history from Harvard (2022) and was a postdoctoral fellow in public and digital history at Boston University and the University of Toronto. From 2026-27, she is Visiting Assistant Professor of Public History at NYU Abu Dhabi.
The walking tour will meet at the Chinatown Gates in downtown Boston and will conclude in the South End of Boston.
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