Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own

ISBN-13: 9781474458573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Leiden Unive Tsolin (Lecturer in Modern Middle East History

Opis

This book argues that Armenians around the world in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950sTsolin Nalbandian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946 8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of principally power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Repositioning Armenians in Newly Post-Colonial Nation-States: Lebanon and Syria, 1945/1946 2. The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political-Cultural Impact of the 1946-1949 Repatriation to Soviet Armenia; 3. Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election; 4 . Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflict; Conculsion; Bibliography.