... of nomadic tribes in French mandate Syria, this essay shows that creative appropriation of the automobile actually helped nomadic groups to strengthen their position and to defend their economic and political interests. Automobiles allowed tribal chiefs to experience enhanced mobility, facilitating a faster...

...Kristin V. Monroe Based on newspaper resources from Lebanon’s French mandate period (1920–46), Monroe’s essay offers a new perspective to a developing global historiography of automobility by considering, in a provisional way and primarily as a basis for further research, how the driving of cars...

... carved out five new nation-states—Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Iraq, and Palestine—to be governed, for a time, under British and French mandatory administrations overseen by the Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) of the League of Nations. 14 The mandates system and the minority rights regime thus...

... of contemporary public opinion.4 Similar revisions are possible   of for French-mandated Lebanon and Syria. Here, as in other parts of the Arab world, pro- Studies...

... © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Ottoman Empire agriculture statistics Eastern Mediterranean French Mandate In 1905, representatives from the Ottoman Empire gathered in Rome with their counterparts from countries around the world for the founding of the International Institute...

... protectorate and to not include it in French Algeria. The reference by a French official that the Mzabis were claiming minorities rights was not indicative of any systematic or official categorization of Mzabis as a minority. Like in Mandate Syria, French officials were still debating in the 1930s what...

... compared to that of the French. ­Ottoman Empire in the 1860s, Mount Lebanon en- written this report on 20 June 1930 and sent it to his joyed a semiautonomous status, which prevented superiors. See MAE, Mandat, Syrie-Liban, Study Sum...

... and cultural origins of these engineers' statism by tracing the trajectories of two of its leading proponents—Abd-El-Al and Joseph Naggear—from the French Mandate into the postindependence period. This generation trained to work in or with the state, and cultivated among themselves an enlightened bourgeois...

... . Tageldin Shaden . Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt . Oakland : University of California Press , 2011 . White Benjamin Thomas . The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria . Edinburgh : Edinburgh...

... Directions.” 282 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 34:2 • 2014 site produced through governmental and disci- the French mandate, a law that dictated the pro- plinary practices that foreground, in the case of cedures for sectarian...

...- ferred to differing attitudes to reason and ratio- hanli, Hatay (Antakya), just before Hatay, a nality prevalent in certain societies in different small town in southern Turkey, was placed periods of history. For Meriç the civilizational under the French mandate. His father was a dividing lines...

... and Austrian empires, and in 1932) and the French mandate of Syria (includ- Ireland, which was a British colony until the Irish ing Lebanon). Self-­government was left ambigu- Free State was created in 1922. There were league ous for the B and C mandates, that is, the former...

... the recent study of Another theme that runs through the book is that of Elizabeth Thompson on Syria and Lebanon during the the complexity of relations with both the male-led Pal- French mandate, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Pater- estinian Arab national movement and the British colo- nal...

..., often obliging the colonizer to “catch up” with their tactics. Sakatni explores the practices of nomadic groups under the nascent French Mandate state in Eastern Syria in the 1920s. He shows how Bedouin shaykhs , such as Nuri Sha'lan of the Ruwala tribe, used motorcars within the evolving practices...

... the prevent the French army from entering Damas- Palestinian opposition to the mufti, and refused cus in July 1920. Al-Qawuqji continued to op- to recognize the mufti’s authority in Palestine. and pose the French mandate of Syria and Lebanon Later, this rivalry deepened. During World War...

... for all ises of the French Mandate (1924 to 1946). On one citizens, male or female. hand, French promises of republican rights for all citizens were taken up by women as a way to push Genealogies of Syrian Feminism...

... is not a marginal figure in his own privileging and restoring colonial-­era architec- communally defined setting. In addition to the ture of the French mandate. Yet in one of the Beirut...

..., “Navigating Knowledge.” 17. I am extremely thankful to Kirsten Schied for making me aware of this history. See also Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate , 407 . The Kheiri brothers are regarded to this day as the founders of the Lebanese Scouting movement. See wikivisually.com/wiki...

... in French Thought . Translated by Porter Catherine . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1993 . Wilson Henry S. Origins of West African Nationalism . London : Macmillan , 1969 . Young Robert J. C. “Postcolonial Remains.” New Literary History 43 , no. 1 ( 2012...