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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation’s complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping Lebanese and Syrian society and politics. Yet, the party remains largely unknown and misunderstood, a condition that stems from the lack of any comprehensive study of it. This book fills this gap. Syrian nationalism and nationalist movements, generally speaking, have been largely neglected and ignored by historians, scholars, and observers of the Middle East. So, too, has the SSNP. The lack of detailed and nuanced analyses has left significant g...
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iraqi responses in the 1930s and throughout the war. While acknowledging the individuals, forces, and organizations that did support and collaborate with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Arab Responses to Fascism ...
Covering Sadat, Mubarak, and the post‐revolution periods, this book presents a contemporary intellectual history of the Egyptian secular left in politics since 1970. It covers a timeframe which witnessed cycles of repression and inclusion and explores how leftist parties which lack mobilization capacity respond behaviourally and ideologically to political openings, evaluate political opportunities, and assess the feasibility of elections. The author tells the story of two secular parties that fairly represent the secular spectrum, examining the options the leftist parties chose in order to survive the competition with strong Islamist and state-led parties. These are the Tagammu Party, a le...
An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.
Conference held April 27-May 1, 2001, Beirut.
Johann Andreas Ernst Wernicke (1788-1867) married Friederike Maria Regina Sachse in 1819, and immigrated from Germany to Newton, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Descendants lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in to the early 1600s.