1st Edition
Syria in World War I Politics, economy, and society
INTRODUCTION M. Talha Çiçek Chapter 1: Myth of the Unionist Triumvirate: the Formation of the CUP Factions and their Impact in Syria during the Great War M. Talha Çiçek Chapter 2: Muhammad Kurd Ali and the Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia in the Ottoman Campaign against Arab Separatism Salim Tamari Chapter 3: A Propaganda Tour Organized by Djemal Pasha: The Arab Literati’s Visit to the Gallipoli Front, 18 - 23 October 1915 Ayhan Aktar Chapter 4: ‘We will treat you as we did with the Armenians’: Djemal Pasha, Zionism and the evacuation of Jaffa, April 1917. Roberto Mazza Chapter 5: The Ottoman Government and the Zionist Movement during the First Months of World War I Hilmar Kaiser Chapter 6: Fragments of Wartime Memories from Syria and Lebanon Najwa al-Qattan Chapter 7: Economy, Environment, and Famine: World War I from the Perspective of the Syrian Interior Elizabeth Williams Chapter 8: Shukru Bey and the Armenian Deportations in the Fall of 1915 Hilmar Kaiser
Biography
M. Talha Çiçek is an assistant professor at the Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey, and the author of War and State Formation in Syria (Routledge, 2014).
"...This is a very important contribution to the study of Syria in a crucial period...I definitely recommend this book and will personally use it in my reading lists about Syria." - Josef Olmert, Middle East Media and Books Reviews Online
