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

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Genesis of a Project -- The Power of a Cultural Paradigm for British Mandate Palestine and Christian Communities -- Precedents -- Looking at Cultural Diplomacy in a Proto-National Setting: Towards an Integrative Approach -- Overview of the Book -- Speaking to the Silences? -- Bibliography -- Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy -- Introduction Part I Indigenising Cultural Diplomacy? -- Bibliography -- Orthodox Clubs and Associations: Cultural, Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Transjordan, 1925-1950 -- Orthodox Laity in the Emirate of Transjordan: Developing Diplomatic Ties in a Political Sphere in Reconfiguration -- Orthodox Laity During the Interwar Period: Regional Networks and Circulations -- Claims for Cultural and Educational Facilities in the New Capital -- Orthodox Laity and the Mandate Representative: Creating Political Ties -- The Orthodox Notables in Transjordan and the Development of the Arab Orthodox Nahda Association -- The Foundation of the Arab Orthodox Nahda Association: A Palestinian Connection? -- The Arab Orthodox Nahda Association: Creating a Communal Urban Presence -- Migration and Regional Circulation: Expanding the Arab Orthodox Imprint in Amman -- The 1940s and the Change of Diplomatic Paradigm -- From Sunday School to the Educational Association -- Sporting and Cultural Associations: Family Networks and Know-How -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Making Stage of the Modern Palestinian Arabic Novel in the Experiences of the udabā� Khalīl Baydas (1874-1949) and Iskandar al-Khūri al-BeitJāli (1890-1973) -- A Cultural Life Before Its Destruction -- Literature, Nahda and Russian Schools in Palestine.

Khalīl Baydas and the Foundation of Norms of the Palestinian Novel -- Iskandar al-Khūri and Palestinian Literary Realism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sound Power: Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem -- St Saviour's Schola Cantorum -- Controlling and Patronising Orphans Through Music -- A Musico-Political Agenda -- Lama: From Cecilianism to the Nakba -- Reverberating Around a Changing City -- Bibliography -- The Melkite Community, Educational Policy and French Cultural Diplomacy: Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee -- Melkite Archives for a Melkite Cultural History -- The Archives of the Patriarchal Residence: Rabweh -- Library of the Monastery of Saint-Sauveur: Joun -- Archives of the Melkite Patriarchate: Damascus -- Educating the Melkites �a la fran�caise -- Grigorios Hajjar: Bishop of the Arabs and Prince of Preachers -- Hajjar's Educational Policy in Galilee -- French in the Melkite Schools -- The Melkites Between Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy -- Grigorios Hajjar, an Agent of Cultural Diplomacy -- Bibliography -- Cultural Diplomacy in Mandatory Haifa: The Role of Christian Communities in the Cultural Transformation of the City -- The European Presence in Haifa -- Cultural Transformation in Haifa and the Role of Christian Communities -- Culture as a Tool for Consolidating Palestinian National Identity -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate -- Introduction Part II Colonial Hegemony, Arab Virt�u and the Philosophy of History: Excavating, Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate -- Bibliography -- Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: History and Archaeology in a Colonial Space -- The Palestine Mandate Department of Antiquities -- Palestinians in the Department of Antiquities.

Stephan Hanna Stephan and Na'im Shehadi Makhouly -- Stephan and Makhouly After 1948 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Between Diplomacy and Science: British Mandate Palestine and Its International Network of Archaeological Organisations, 1918-1938 -- The Institutionalisation of Archaeology in Palestine in the Early 1920s -- The Establishment of a Transnational Archaeological Network in Palestine -- Excavation Methods and Archaeological Tourism as Diplomatic Tools -- Bibliography -- Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine -- Artistic Missions -- The Trade Fair During the British Mandate -- Fair Competition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors -- Introduction Part III European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine -- Setting the Stage -- The Christians of Palestine, and the European Deployment of Hard and Soft Power -- European Christian Competition: Battling for Influence -- Palestine at the Crossroads -- Bibliography -- Diaspora-Building and Cultural Diplomacy: The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate -- The Establishment and Development of the Greek Diaspora Community -- The Jerusalem Greek Diaspora in the Mandate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Palestine Society: Cultural Diplomacy and Scholarship in Late Tsarist Russia and the Soviet State -- Porphyrii Uspenskii and the First Russian Mission in Jerusalem -- Russian Institutions in Jerusalem After the Crimean War -- The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914) -- The Palestine Society and Russian Mission During WWI and in the Interwar Period -- World War I -- The Russian Mission during World War I -- The Russian Palestine Society in the Interwar Period.

The Question of the Properties: Contacts with Palestine -- Research Work of the Palestine Society, 1919-1930 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine, 1915-1938 -- Actors, Structures, and Goals in the Late Habsburg Monarchy -- From Turmoil to the Consolidation of the Republic-A New Beginning in Palestine? -- Authoritarian Austria and Palestine -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- A Coherent Inconsistency: Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine, 1918-1938 -- In Search of a Working Definition of Cultural Diplomacy -- The Italian Consulate in Jerusalem: A Short History -- Pre-Fascist Italy Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine -- "La Strada Delle Suore" -- The Italian Hospital (Building) -- Fascist Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine 1934-1939 -- Radio Bari -- The Protector of the Jews -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine: Cultural Diplomacy and Outreach in the British Mandate Period -- The Latin Patriarch Barlassina: A Tireless Fighter -- The Latin Patriarchate's Cultural Policies During the Mandate -- The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and Its Raison D'�etre -- The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and Its Activities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- A "Significant Swedish Outpost": The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920-1930 -- Background -- Early Mandate Years -- "Needed Among the Arabs" in Mandatory Palestine -- The Arab Teachers -- Parents and Children: Expectations and Attractions -- Why Did Arab Parents Send Their Children to the Swedish School? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- French Cultural Efforts Towards Jerusalem's Arab Population in the Late British Mandate in Palestine -- Preliminaries.

The Founding of a Centre de Culture Fran�caise de J�erusalem -- The Idea of a French Lyc�ee (Secondary School) -- French Courses -- The Centre de Culture Fran�caise -- The Fate of the CCF -- Early Days -- WWII -- Conclusion: After WWII -- Bibliography -- Conclusions -- Cultural Affiliation and Identity Constructs Under the British Mandate for Palestine -- Bibliography -- Epilogue -- Education -- Newspapers -- Humanitarianism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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