List of Tables; Notes on Transliteration; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The origins of the Armenian presence in Lebanon and Syria; 2. (Re)constructing Armenia; 3. Coping with political change; 4. War, migration, and strategies of survival; 5. Difficult Recovery and uncertain future; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-237) and index
