Diasporas of the Modern Middle East : : Contextualising Community / / Anthony Gorman, Sossie Kasbarian.

Explores the changing conceptions and practice of diaspora in the modern Middle EastApproaching the Middle East through the lens of Diaspora Studies, the 11 detailed case studies in this volume explore the experiences of different diasporic communities in and of the region, and look at the changing...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Introduction: Diasporas of the Modern Middle East - Contextualising Community
  • I Post-Ottoman Reconfigurations
  • 1 Model Citizens or a Fifth Column? Greek Orthodox (Rum) Communities in Syria and Turkey between Secularism and Multiculturalism
  • 2 Muhammad Farid: Between Nationalism and the Egyptian-Ottoman Diaspora
  • 3 Evolution of a North Caucasian Community in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey: The Case of Anatolian Ossetians
  • 4 The Italians of Egypt: Return to Diaspora
  • II Exile, 'Return' and Resistance
  • 5 Diaspora Tourism and Identity: Subversion and Consolation in Armenian Pilgrimages to Eastern Turkey
  • 6 Stories of Identity and Resistance: Palestinian Women outside the Homeland
  • III Community in Host States - Establishing New Homes
  • 7 The 'Others' Within: The Armenian Community in Cyprus
  • 8 Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Worthy Lives in Unworthy Conditions
  • IV New Diasporas
  • 9 Malayalee Migrants and Translocal Kerala Politics in the Gulf: Re-conceptualising the 'Political'
  • 10 Diaspora, Immobility and the Experience of Waiting: Young Iraqi Refugees in Cairo
  • 11 Home in Lebanese Diaspora Literature
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index