Kheir Fakhreldin

@kheir.bsky.social

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University Archivist at Chicago State. PhD student at Dominican University SOIS. Archival exhibitions, cultural memory in literature and music, iconoclasm, local history, encyclopedic novels, UMich & B1G women's sports, 12-string guitar. #SaveNARAChicago

Antique books from Thomas Jefferson’s collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, including Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

Kheir Fakhreldin smiling at Lyric Opera before the performance of A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness on November 25, 2025.

Haki R. Madhubuti in the Chicago State University Archives reading room watching a TV screen playing a video of Gwendolyn Brooks speaking at the 1992 Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference at CSU.

View of the stage from the sixth floor of the Civic Opera House, Chicago.

Michigan Wolverines freshman shooting guard Syla Swords in a white uniform with number 12 running with a basketball in her left hand during a game.

Manuscript for “Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois.

Parallax by Nancy Cunard.

Cabinets in the vault of the Illinois State Archives, Springfield.