European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030555399
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030555399
• Author: Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri

This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious transformations of Arab Christian communities in Palestine via cultural lenses from an entangled perspective.
The 17 chapters reflect diverse research interests, from case studies of individual archives to chapters that question the concept of cultural diplomacy more generally. They illustrate the diversity of scholarship that enables a broad-based view of how cultural diplomacy functioned during the interwar period, but also the ways in which its meanings have changed. The book considers British Mandate Palestine as an internationalized node within a transnational framework to understand how the complexity of cultural interactions and agencies engaged to produce new modes of modernity.

Table of contents:

1. Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy
2. Introduction
3. Indigenising Cultural Diplomacy?
4. Cultural Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Transjordan 19251950
5. Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem
6. Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee
7. The Role of Christian Communities in the Cultural Transformation of the City
8. Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate
9. Excavating Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate
10. History and Archaeology in a Colonial Space
11. British Mandate Palestine and Its International Network of Archaeological Organisations 19181938
12. Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine
13. European Private and Governmental Actors
14. European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine
15. The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate
16. Cultural Diplomacy and Scholarship in Late Tsarist Russia and the Soviet State
17. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine 19151938
18. Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine 19181938
19. Cultural Diplomacy and Outreach in the British Mandate Period
20. The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem 19201930
21. French Cultural Efforts Towards Jerusalems Arab Population in the Late British Mandate in Palestine

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