Syria’s Transnational Rebellion

Reem Bailony is an Associate Professor of Middle East History at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She is previously a Druze Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Studies and a Senior Smithsonian Institution Research Fellow.

• 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.