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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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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Alī, Muḥammad Kurd
By Samir Seikaly
In 1914 Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali was Damascus’ most prominent journalist, owner and ed…
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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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Arab Supporters of the Belligerent Countries
By M. Talha Çiçek
There were a number of Arab intellectuals who actively cooperated with the Enten…
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Beersheba-Gaza Line
By M. Talha Çiçek
The Beersheba-Gaza Line (or Defenses) are the three battles fought between the O…
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Cemal Paşa, Ahmed
By Hasan Kayalı
Cemal Paşa belonged to the top leadership of the Committee of Union and Progress…
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Empire
By Erez Manela
World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …
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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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Colonial Empires after the War/Decolonization
By James E. Kitchen
The First World War saw the colonial empires of France and Britain mobilised to …
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Extra-European Theatres of War
By Michelle Moyd
The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…
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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…
