This article provides an overview of 20th century Syrian/Lebanese literature on …
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Regional Thematic Articles
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Literature (Middle East)
By Najwa al-Qattan
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Music (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
By Jonathan Glasser
The World War One years are often treated as a blank spot in the musical history…
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Photography (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
By Issam Nassar
This article traces some of the uses of photography on the Ottoman fronts during…
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Post-war Societies (Middle East)
By Cyrus Schayegh
The immediate post-war Middle East formed part of a Eurasia-wide arc of instabil…
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Warfare 1914-1918 (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
By Mehmet Fatih Baş
When the Ottoman Empire entered the war, the potential Middle Eastern theater of…
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War Memory, Commemoration (Ottoman Empire/ Middle East)
By Kyle J. Anderson
Since 1914-1918 various practices of remembering World War I have coexisted and …
Encyclopedic Entries
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al-Da’uq, Umar
By Malek Sharif
Umar al-Da’uq was a merchant and notable of Beirut in the late Ottoman period. H…
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Arab Officers in the Ottoman Army
By Michael Provence
Perhaps 30 percent of the World War I Ottoman officer corps hailed from Arab reg…
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Caesar Affair
By Tylor Brand
In late 1916, the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee arranged for supplies to …
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Hakkı, İsmail Bey
By Malek Sharif
İsmail Hakkı was an experienced civil servant. He collected and published detail…
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Hoyek, Elias
By Youssef Mouawad
Elias Hoyek was Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites. He is considered to be o…
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Martyrs/Separatists, Syrian and Lebanese
By M. Talha Çiçek
The terms "martyrs" and "separatists" refer to the decentralist Arabists of Syri…
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Orphans (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
By Tylor Brand
War, massacres, displacement, famine and economic crisis left over 100,000 child…
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Syrian Protestant College
By Tylor Brand
The Syrian Protestant College (after 1920, the American University of Beirut) wa…
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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
