European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918-1948: Between Contention and Connection

ISBN-13: 9783030555429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 492 str.

Karène Sanchez Summerer;Sary Zananiri

Recenzje

"In addition to some particularly impressive arguments presented here, the complete volume is invaluable for scholars in the field ... . From the Swedish School to the politics and culture of archaeological exploration and dig sites, to an examination of the Palestinian novel, the shared effort [in this book] to better understand the history of Palestine's Christians and their relationship to the broad world is an essential step in our understanding of this important minority group." (Noah Haiduc-Dale, REMMM Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Vol. 150, 2021)

Spis treści

Introduction - Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri

Part I Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy

Introduction: Indigenising cultural diplomacy? - Sarah Irving

Orthodox Clubs and Associations: Cultural, Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Jordan, 1925-1970 - Norig Neveu

Palestinian Translators and Intellectuals during Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: Russian Language in the Experiences of Khalil Baydas and Najati Sidqi - Sadia Agsous

Sound Power: Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem - Maria Chiara Rioli and Riccardo Castagnetti

The Melkite Community, Educational Policy and French Cultural Diplomacy: Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee - Charbel Nassif

Cultural Diplomacy in Mandatory Haifa: The Role of Christian Communities in the City’s Cultural Transformation - Maayan Hillel

Part II Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate

Introduction: Arab Virtù and the Philosophy of History: Excavating, Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate - Philippe Bourmaud 

Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: Historical and Archaeological Narratives in a Colonial Space - Sarah Irving

Between Diplomacy and Science: British Mandate Palestine and its International Network of Archaeological Organisations, 1918-1938 - Mathilde Sigalas 

Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine - Nisa Ari

Part III Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors

Introduction: European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine - Heather J. Sharkey

Between Athens and Al Quds: The Greek Community in Late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem - Konstantinos Papastathis

Russia and Orthodoxy in Palestine, 1900-1930s: Diplomacy, Institutions, Personalities - Lora Gerd

Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine, 1915–1938 - Barbara Haider-Wilson

A Coherent Inconsistency: Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine, 1918-1936 - Roberto Mazza

The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and the Latin Patriarchate’s Cultural Diplomacy in the British Mandate Period - Paolo Maggiolini 

A “Significant Swedish Outpost”: The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920-1930 - Inger Marie Okkenhaug

French Cultural Efforts Towards Jerusalem’s Arab Population in Late British Mandate Palestine - Dominique Trimbur

Conclusion: Cultural Affiliations and Identity Constructs during the British Mandate for Palestine - Tamara van Kessel

Epilogue: Secularist Networks, Cultural Institutions and Cultural Diplomacy in the Levantine Mandates - Idir Ouahes 

O autorze

​Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands.  

Sary Zananiri is Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, the Netherlands.  

Blurb

This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine via cultural lenses from an entangled perspective. 

The 17 chapters reflect diverse research interests, from case studies of individual archives to chapters that question the concept of cultural diplomacy more generally. They illustrate the diversity of scholarship that enables a broad-based view of how cultural diplomacy functioned during the interwar period, but also the ways in which its meanings have changed. The book considers British Mandate Palestine as an internationalised node within a transnational framework to understand how the complexity of cultural interactions and agencies engaged to produce new modes of modernity.

​Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research considers the European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in Palestine. She is the PI of the research project (2017-2022), ‘CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)’ (project funded by The Netherlands National Research Agency, NWO). She is the co-editor of the series ‘Languages and Culture in History’ with W. Frijhoff, Amsterdam University Press. She is part of the College of Experts: ESF European Science Foundation (2018-2021).

Sary Zananiri is an artist and cultural historian.He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow on the NWO funded project 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948)' at Leiden University, The Netherlands.