George Antonius
George Habib Antonius,
CBE (hon.) (; October 9, 1891May 21, 1942) was a
Lebanese author and diplomat who settled in
Jerusalem. He was one of the first historians of
Arab nationalism. Born in
Deir al Qamar to a Lebanese
Eastern Orthodox Christian family, he served as a civil servant in the
British Mandate of Palestine. His 1938 book ''
The Arab Awakening'' generated an ongoing debate over such issues as the origins of Arab nationalism, the significance of the
Arab Revolt of 1916, and the machinations behind the post-World War I political settlement in West Asia and North Africa. In the book, he raised concern about the fate of religious coexistence in Palestine in the face of Zionist colonization, while also recognizing the horror of anti-Jewish Nazism.
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