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8 de may. de 2024 · It begins by tracing the fusion of Anglophile mimicry and anti-colonial resistance typical of her parents – George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening (1938) and Katy Antonius, Mandatory Jerusalem’s leading socialite.
Hace 5 días · The lecture revolves round the central concept of the Arab-Jew. It examines the circumstances surrounding the Jewish exodus from Iraq in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It challenges ...
Hace 6 días · As in 1860, Antonius envisions a local and European collaboration to settle interreligious and interethnic tensions and conflicts. Once again, he resorts to the model of the Tanzimat firman of 1856 granting equal civic rights to religious and ethnic minorities.
8 de may. de 2024 · George Antonius: The Formative Years. Susan Silsby. History, Political Science. 1986; George Antonius was born in Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon) on 19 October 1891 at a time when, after four centuries of Ottoman rule, the Arab nationalist movement was in an embryonic stage.
Hace 4 días · For Fieldhouse, Antonius makes a huge jump from charting the revival of cultural interest in the Arabic language, and the development of Arab nationalist secret societies in Syria, to broader claims about the awakening of a widespread Arab consciousness and desire for independence.
Hace 4 días · The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
Hace 5 días · 23 May 2024. Bayan Haddad, an instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature, received the George Antonius Birzeit Visiting Fellowship to work on a comparative literary reading of Northern Ireland and Palestine.
