Name: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
ISBN: 978-3-030-55540-5

Editors:

Karène Sanchez Summerer⁰,
Sary Zananiri¹

Karène Sanchez Summerer
1. Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Reframes the relationships between Jews, Muslims and Christians of Mandate Palestine, based on unexplored archival data
Explores the motivations of Western and Eastern European cultural policies and their impact in this region
Uncovers the diversity of Arab Christian cultural identity and nationalism

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxiii

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Introduction
- Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
Pages 1-27Open Access
Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 29-29
  
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2. Introduction Part I Indigenising Cultural Diplomacy?
  
  Sarah Irving
  
  Pages 31-36Open Access
3. Orthodox Clubs and Associations: Cultural, Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Transjordan, 1925–1950
  
  Norig Neveu
  
  Pages 37-62Open Access
4. The Making Stage of the Modern Palestinian Arabic Novel in the Experiences of the udabāʾ Khalīl Baydas (1874–1949) and Iskandar al-Khūri al-BeitJāli (1890–1973)
  
  Sadia Agsous
  
  Pages 63-78Open Access
5. Sound Power: Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem
  
  Maria Chiara Rioli, Riccardo Castagnetti
  
  Pages 79-104Open Access
6. The Melkite Community, Educational Policy and French Cultural Diplomacy: Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee
  
  Charbel Nassif
  
  Pages 105-125Open Access
7. Cultural Diplomacy in Mandatory Haifa: The Role of Christian Communities in the Cultural Transformation of the City
  
  Maayan Hilel
  
  Pages 127-150Open Access
Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 151-151
  
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2. Introduction Part II Colonial Hegemony, Arab Virtù and the Philosophy of History: Excavating, Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate
  
  Philippe Bourmaud
  
  Pages 153-159Open Access
3. Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: History and Archaeology in a Colonial Space
  
  Sarah Irving
  
  Pages 161-185Open Access
4. Between Diplomacy and Science: British Mandate Palestine and Its International Network of Archaeological Organisations, 1918–1938
  
  Mathilde Sigalas
  
  Pages 187-211Open Access
5. Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine
  
  Nisa Ari
  
  Pages 213-246Open Access
Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 247-247
  
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2. Introduction Part III European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine
  
  Heather J. Sharkey
  
  Pages 249-254Open Access
3. Diaspora-Building and Cultural Diplomacy: The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate
  
  Konstantinos Papastathis
  
  Pages 255-272Open Access
4. The Palestine Society: Cultural Diplomacy and Scholarship in Late Tsarist Russia and the Soviet State
  
  Lora Gerd
  
  Pages 273-302Open Access
5. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine, 1915–1938
  
  Barbara Haider-Wilson
  
  Pages 303-330Open Access
6. A Coherent Inconsistency: Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine, 1918–1938
  
  Roberto Mazza
  
  Pages 331-352Open Access

About this book

This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine via cultural lenses from an entangled perspective.

The 17 chapters reflect diverse research interests, from case studies of individual archives to chapters that question the concept of cultural diplomacy more generally. They illustrate the diversity of scholarship that enables a broad-based view of how cultural diplomacy functioned during the interwar period, but also the ways in which its meanings have changed. The book considers British Mandate Palestine as an internationalized node within a transnational framework to understand how the complexity of cultural interactions and agencies engaged to produce new modes of modernity.

Keywords

Open Access
British Mandate rule
Religious networks
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Cultural agenda
Urban history
Translation
Knowledge transfer
Trade
European states
Postcolonial
Zionism

Reviews

“In addition to some particularly impressive arguments presented here, the complete volume is invaluable for scholars in the field … . From the Swedish School to the politics and culture of archaeological exploration and dig sites, to an examination of the Palestinian novel, the shared effort [in this book] to better understand the history of Palestine’s Christians and their relationship to the broad world is an essential step in our understanding of this important minority group.” (Noah Haiduc-Dale, REMMM Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Vol. 150, 2021) “For students of cultural diplomacy, Mandate Palestine is marvellously complex. It involved not only Muslims and Jews but also manifold Christian communities, European governments, and foreign religious and secular missions, among others. And its cultural diplomatic actors helped shape various interplaying national, confessional, and imperial identities. Just as complex were the results, as this wonderful and wide-ranging volume shows. Varying wildly, state and non-state cultural diplomacy could be dialogue, dissent, propaganda, and more. A fascinating read for historians of the interwar Middle East and cultural diplomacy alike.” (Cyrus Schayegh, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Switzerland)

Editors and Affiliations

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri

About the editors

Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Sary Zananiri is Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
Book Subtitle: Between Contention and Connection
Editors: Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55540-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55539-9Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55542-9Published: 12 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55540-5Published: 30 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 465
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural History, Diplomatic and International History, History of the Middle East, History of Religion

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

Front Matter

Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy

Front Matter

Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate

Front Matter

Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors

Front Matter

About this book

Keywords

Reviews

Editors and Affiliations

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

About the editors

Bibliographic Information

Buying options