Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism : : Attraction and Repulsion / / ed. by Israel Gershoni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bashkin, Orit,; Erlich, Haggai,; Gershoni, Israel,; Ginat, Rami,; Jankowski, James,; Kabha, Mustafa,; Nordbruch, Götz,; Webman, Esther,; Wildangel, René,; Zamir, Meir,; Zisser, Eyal,
• HerausgeberIn: Gershoni, Israel,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)

The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iraqi responses in the 1930s and throughout the war. While acknowledging the individuals, forces, and organizations that did support and collaborate with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism focuses on the many other Arab voices that identified with Britain and France and with the Allied cause during the war. The authors argue that many groups within Arab societies—elites and non-elites, governing forces, and civilians—rejected Nazism and fascism as totalitarian, racist, and, most important, as new, more oppressive forms of European imperialism. The essays in this volume argue that, in contrast to prevailing beliefs that Arabs were de facto supporters of Italy and Germany—since “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”—mainstream Arab forces and currents opposed the Axis powers and supported the Allies during the war. They played a significant role in the battles for control over the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Analysis of Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern Studies -- PART 1. Syria and Lebanon -- 1. A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese Press -- 2. Against the Tide: The Secret Alliance between the Syrian National Bloc Leaders and Great Britain, 1941–1942 -- 3. Memoirs Do Not Deceive: Syrians Confront Fascism and Nazism—as Reflected in the Memoirs of Syrian Political Leaders and Intellectuals -- PART 2. Palestine -- 4. More than the Mufti: Other Arab-Palestinian Voices on Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, and Their Postwar Narrations -- 5. The Spanish Civil War as Reflected in Contemporary Palestinian Press -- PART 3. Iraq -- 6. Iraqi Shadows, Iraqi Lights: Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Voices in Monarchic Iraq, 1932–1941 -- PART 4. Egypt -- 7. The View from the Embassy: British Assessments of Egyptian Attitudes during World War II -- 8. The Rise of Homemade Egyptian Communism: A Response to the Challenge Posed by Fascism and Nazism? -- 9. “The Crime of Nazism against Humanity”: Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of World War II -- 10. The War and the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse, 1945–1947 -- PART 5. Other Arab Voices -- 11. The Tiger and the Lion: Fascism and Ethiopia in Arab Eyes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index