{"product_id":"armenians-beyond-diaspora-making-lebanon-their-own-by-tsolin-nalbantian","title":"Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon Their Own by Tsolin Nalbantian","description":"\u003cp\u003eA socio-political and cultural history of the Armenians in Cold War Lebanon This book argues that Armenians around the world - in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s Tsolin Nalbandian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence. Key Features  Explores Lebanese Armenians' changing views of their place in the making of the Lebanese state and its wider Arab environment, and in relation to the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic  Challenges the dominant Armenian historiography, which treats Lebanese Armenians as a subsidiary of an Armenian global diaspora  Contributes to an understanding of the development of class and sectarian cleavages that led to the breakdown of civil society in Lebanon from 1975  Highlights the role of societal actors in the US-Soviet Cold War in the Middle East  Challenges the tendency to read Middle East history through the lens of dominant (Arab) nationalisms Tsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTsolin Nalbantian is Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University. She is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq \u0026amp; Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies and History Compass. She has written the entry 'Armenians in the Middle East' for the Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918821069085,"sku":"9781474458573","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-02-05at4.11.43pm.png?v=1770326106","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/armenians-beyond-diaspora-making-lebanon-their-own-by-tsolin-nalbantian","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}