Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism : : Attraction and Repulsion /

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

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 leadin...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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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

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