Research Catalog

Title

Diasporas of the modern Middle East : contextualising community / edited by Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Gorman, Anthony, 1959-
• Kasbarian, Sossie

Description

vi, 416 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Diaspora studies and Middle Eastern studies come together in this collection of 15 detailed case studies. The contributors demonstrate that concepts central to diaspora such as "homeland", "host state", "exile", "longing", "memory" and "return" have been deconstructed and reinstated with new meaning through each unique diasporic experience. Situating communities within their own narratives of conflict, resistance, war, genocide, persecution, displacement and migration, this collection addresses the ways in which different groups have struggled to claim and negotiate a space for themselves in the Middle East. It shows how these efforts have been aided and hampered by the legal, historical, social, political, economic, colonial and post-colonial peculiarities of the region.

Alternative Title

Contextualising community

Subject

• Arabs > Foreign countries
• Iranians > Foreign countries
• Middle East > Emigration and immigration
• Southeast Asia > Emigration and immigration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Post-Ottoman reconfigurations. Model citizens or a fifth column? Greek Orthodox (Rum) communities in Syria and Turkey between secularism and multiculturalism / Haris Theodorelis-Rigas -- Muhammad Farid: between nationalism and the Egyptian-Ottoman diaspora / Ehud R. Toledano -- Evolution of a North Caucasian community in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey: the case of Anatolian Ossetians / Georgy Chochiev -- The Italians of Egypt: return to diaspora / Anthony Gorman -- II. Exile, 'return' and resistance. Diaspora tourism and identity: subversion and consolation in Armenian pilgrimages to eastern Turkey / Zeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian -- Stories of identity and resistance: Palestinian women outside the homeland / Maria Holt -- III. Community in host states -- establishing new homes. The 'others' within: the Armenian community in Cyprus / Sossie Kasbarian -- Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: worthy lives in unworthy conditions / May Farah -- IV. New diasporas. Malayalee migrants and translocal Kerala politics in the Gulf: re-conceptualising the 'political' / M.H. Ilias -- Diaspora, immobility and the experience of waiting: young Iraqi refugees in Cairo / Elisa Pascucci -- Home in Lebanese diaspora literature / Jumana Bayeh.

Call Number

JFE 16-6500

ISBN

• 9780748686100
• 074868610X
• 9780748686117 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780748686131 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015451835

OCLC

884243257

Title

Diasporas of the modern Middle East : contextualising community / edited by Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gorman, Anthony, 1959- editor.

Kasbarian, Sossie, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6500