(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook (Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria write by Nicola Migliorino. This book was released on 2008. (Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Armenian community. Since 1970, the coming to power of the Asad family has contributed to a partial recovery of Armenian ethno-cultural diversity, as the community seems to have developed some form of tacit arrangement with the regime. In Lebanon, on the other hand, the Armenian community suffered the consequences of the recurrent breakdown of the consociational arrangement that regulates public life. In both cases the survival of Armenian cultural distinctiveness seems to be connected, rather incidentally, with the continuing 'search for legitimacy' of the state.
Armenians Beyond Diaspora
Armenians Beyond Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armenians Beyond Diaspora write by Tsolin Nalbantian. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Armenians Beyond Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 1950s. Tsolin Nalbantian 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.
Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor
Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor write by Marcello Mollica. This book was released on 2021-10-27. Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians. The authors draw on documentary material and fieldwork carried out in 2013-2019 among Syrian Armenians in Armenian and Lebanese urban settings. The stories of Syrian Armenians reveal how contemporary events are seen to have direct links to the past and to reproduce memories associated with the Armenian genocide; the contemporary involvement of Turkey in the Syrian war, for example, is seen on the ground as an attempt to control the Armenian presence in Syria. Today, the Syrian Armenian identity encapsulates the complex intersection of memory, transnational links to the past, collective identity and lived experience of wartime “everydayness.” Specifically, the analysis addresses the role of memory in key events, such as the bombing of Armenian historical sites during the commemorations of 24 April in the Eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor; the (perceived) shift from destroying Syrian Armenians’ material culture to attempting to destroy the Armenian community in urban Aleppo; and the informal transactions that take place in the border area of Kessab. This carefully-researched ethnography will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and political science who specialize in studies of conflict, memory and diaspora.
The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-1939
The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-1939 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-1939 write by T. H. Greenshields. This book was released on 1978. The Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon, 1915-1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Armenians of Aintab
The Armenians of Aintab - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Armenians of Aintab write by mit Kurt. This book was released on 2021-04-13. The Armenians of Aintab available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A TurkÕs discovery that Armenians once thrived in his hometown leads to a groundbreaking investigation into the local dynamics of genocide. mit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab, the cityÕs name during the Ottoman period, had not only been destroyedÑit had been replaced. To every appearance, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city. Kurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In particular, he examines the population that gained from ethnic cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the prosperous ArmeniansÑwho were active in manufacturing, agricultural production, and tradeÑwere ejected. Although the official rationale for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat of rebellion, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited mostÑprovincial elites, wealthy landowners, state officials, and merchants who accumulated Armenian capitalÑin turn financed the nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along both ethnic and political lines. The Armenians of Aintab draws on primary sources from Armenian, Ottoman, Turkish, British, and French archives, as well as memoirs, personal papers, oral accounts, and newly discovered property-liquidation records. Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground level.
