From the Holy Land to the New World  and Back : Transnational Arab Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Dominique CADİNOT

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From the Holy Land to the New World and Back : Transnational Arab Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Authors:

Dominique CADİNOT

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2013 Issue 38, pp.31-47

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2013

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734446

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606

Abstract:

 

In his most famous work, The Syrians in America  1924 , historian  Philip Khuri Hitti, expert in Islamic Studies, and pioneer of the academic  study of Semitic languages and Arab culture in the United States, wrote:  “Syria has always been an inhospitable place to live in and a splendid  place to leave”  49 . Through this humorous note, he expressed the  dilemma faced by many his fellow citizens, who, at the beginning of the  twentieth century, reluctantly made the decision to flee their homeland.  A Maronite Syrian Christian, Hitti was in fact recounting the story of the  Christian communities who lived under the yoke of Ottoman imperialism.  Inhospitality, at the time, resulted partly from the inferior status that such  Christians had been forced to endure by the Ottoman governors since the  sixteenth century. However, in the first decades of the twentieth century,  geopolitical frictions were also compelling many people in the Near East to  venture abroad. The Syrian provinces of the empire were indeed chronically  beleaguered by religious strife, much of which European nations instigated.  Whereas the French vied for control of the Catholic congregations and the  Maronites in particular, the British supported the Druze community.

Article Details

From the Holy Land to the New World and Back : Transnational Arab Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

Authors: Dominique CADİNOT

Publisher: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2013 Issue 38, pp.31-47

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2013

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734446

Frequency: Bi-Annual

pISSN: 1300-6606

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Authors:

Dominique CADİNOT

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2013 Issue 38, pp.31-47

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2013

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734446

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606