Syria’s Transnational Rebellion

Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvReem Bailony,Georgia) Bailony, Reem (Associate Professor, Agnes Scott College

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This book brings to light the little-known story of Syrian-Lebanese migrant mobilizations around the 1925 Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate. Situated within the wider context of the emergent post-World War I international system, the book centres Syrian-Lebanese transnational efforts as central to understanding the fluid era of the 1920s. From the League of Nations in Geneva to the banquet halls of Detroit, global Syrians acted as synapses connecting networks within and beyond the French Mandate as they clamoured to create change back home. Syrian-Lebanese diaspora networks drew in and entangled a French colonial infrastructure that became vulnerable to migrant mobilizations, prompting the French to combat the rebellion outside of Mandatory borders. Syria's Transnational Rebellion shows how the diasporic activities challenged the emerging postwar order even as it helped solidify its norms, crystallized a separatist Lebanese nationalism, and tested the limitations of nation-states in formation.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt554 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAlternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Antal sidor280
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399518109

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsTimeline of EventsCast of PlayersIntroduction: Diaspora Mobilisation and a Changing World Order1. Geneva: The Mahjar, the Mandate and the Syro-Palestinian Congress2. Damascus: Global Reverberations of a City under Bombs3. Rashaya: Transnational Suffering and the Making of Lebanon4. Detroit: Uncle Sam and Amir Shakib Arslan5. Al-Azraq: Refugees, Rebels and the Children of the DesertConclusion: Reckoning with Revolutionary EchoesBibliographyIndex

Immensely readable and meticulously researched, this book charts the post-World War I Syrian fight for independence and statehood in new and thought-provoking ways. Placing the 1925 Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate at the centre of her analysis, Bailony writes a compelling story of how diaspora politics, and the patriotic aspirations of migrants, reverberated across the Middle East, Europe and the United States — shaping insurgent geographies, past and present.