Armenians Beyond Diaspora

Tsolin 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 & 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).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 - Repositioning Armenians in Newly Post-Colonial Nation-States: Lebanon and Syria, 1945/1946 Chapter 2 - The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political-Cultural Impact of the 1946-1949 Repatriation to Soviet ArmeniaChapter 3 - Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos ElectionChapter 4 - Making Armenians Lebanese: The 1957 election and the ensuing 1958 conflictConculsionBibliography

What emerges (from this book) is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.