Nalbantian, Tsolin <br/><br/>
Armenians beyond diaspora :  making Lebanon their own / 
Tsolin Nalbantian 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  cop. 2021 
 - (IX-225 p.) 
 - Alternative histories : Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean .
<br/><br/>Bibliogr. p. 205-220 
<br/><br/> This book argues that Armenians around the world - despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I - developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. Tsolin Nalbantian focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s. Nalbantian explores Armenians' discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946-48 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1474458573 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.89199209562