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Between the Ottomans and the Entente - The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (Hardcover)
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Between the Ottomans and the Entente - The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925 (Hardcover)
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Since 2011 over 5.6 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, Lebanon,
Jordan, and beyond, and another 6.6 million are internally
displaced. The contemporary flight of Syrian refugees comes one
century after the region's formative experience with massive
upheaval, displacement, and geopolitical intervention: the First
World War. In this book, Stacy Fahrenthold examines the politics of
Syrian and Lebanese migration around the period of the First World
War. Some half million Arab migrants, nearly all still subjects of
the Ottoman Empire, lived in a diaspora concentrated in Brazil,
Argentina, and the United States. They faced new demands for their
political loyalty from Istanbul, which commanded them to resist
European colonialism. From the Western hemisphere, Syrian migrants
grappled with political suspicion, travel restriction, and outward
displays of support for the war against the Ottomans. From these
diasporic communities, Syrians used their ethnic associations,
commercial networks, and global press to oppose Ottoman rule,
collaborating with the Entente powers because they believed this
war work would bolster the cause of Syria's liberation. Between the
Ottomans and the Entente shows how these communities in North and
South America became a geopolitical frontier between the Young Turk
Revolution and the early French Mandate. It examines how empires at
war-from the Ottomans to the French-embraced and claimed Syrian
migrants as part of the state-building process in the Middle East.
In doing so, they transformed this diaspora into an epicenter for
Arab nationalist politics. Drawing on transnational sources from
migrant activists, this wide-ranging work reveals the degree to
which Ottoman migrants "became Syrians" while abroad and brought
their politics home to the post-Ottoman Middle East.
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