TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nalbantian,Tsolin
TI  - Armenians beyond diaspora: making Lebanon their own 
T2  - Alternative histories : Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
SN  - 978-1474458573
U1  - 305.89199209562 23A
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 205-220
N2  - 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
ER  -