The First World War as remembered in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean / ed. by Olaf Farschid, Manfred Kropp, Stephan Dähne. Würzburg : Ergon-Verl. [u.a.], 2006
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Title page
Conference on "The First World War as Remembered in the Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean", Beirut, 27th April to 1st May, 2001
Welcome address Manfred Kropp (Orient-Institut Beirut)
List of contents
The First World War as a Factor of Political and Social Transformation Olaf Farschid (Berlin)
Panel I: The Political and Social Impact of the First World War
A: Collective Memories of Societies Participating in the First World War, and Changing Forms of Self-Understanding under the Impact of the War
The First World War as the Defining Moment in Modern Armenian History Richard G. Hovannisian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Memory and Distorted Memory: the First World War in Italy Paul Corner (University of Siena)
Politicizing the Past: World War I in Modern Greek Ideology Ioannis K. Hassiotis (University of Thessaloniki)
Armenian Property, Ottoman Law and Nationality Policies during the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1916 Hilmar Kaiser (Solingen)
B: National and Social Group Discourses of the First World War
Babies or the Ballot? Women's Constructions of the Great War in Egypt Marilyn Booth (University of Illinois)
Clericist Catholic Authors and the Crystallization of Historical Memory of WW1 in Lebanonist-Particularist Discourse, 1918-1922 Dennis Walker (Monash University, Melbourne)
The Plight and Relief of God's Nation: The First World War and the German Templar Community in Palestine Helmut Mejcher (University of Hamburg)
Changes in Protestant Assyrian Self-Awareness after the First World War Martin Tamcke (University of Göttingen)
C: The Social Effects of the First World War. Suffering during and after the War
Panel II: Symbolic Processing of the First World War
A: Images, Histories, and Narratives of the War as Reflected in War Monuments, Historiography, Autobiographies and Literature
War Memorials and Cemeteries in Turkey Klaus Kreiser (University of Bamberg)
The Cult of the Fallen Soldiers in Italy after the First World War Oliver Janz (Free University of Berlin)
The Impact of the First World War on Lebanon's History and Memory: The Case of Shakīb Arslān (1869-1946) Axel Havemann (Free University of Berlin)
Taming the Past, Shaping the Future: The Appropriation of the Great War Experience in the Popular Fiction of the Early Turkish Republic Erol Köroğlu (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
La "Grande Guerre" vue par la diaspora turque en Suisse (1918-1923) Hans-Lukas Kieser (Université Zurich)
Individual and Collective Memories of the First World War Christoph Schumann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
A First-Person Account of the First World War in Greater Syria Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut)
The First World War as Represented in Autobiographies in Contemporary Damascus Khairia Kasmieh (Damascus University)
Immediate Recollections of the First World War: Two Ottoman Traval Accounts of Europe Börte Sagaster (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)
Monumentalism versus Realism: Aspects of the First World War in Turkish Literature Martin Strohmeier (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)
The First World War as a Time of Moral Failure: Its Reflection in Turkish Novels Christoph K. Neumann (Bilgi-University, Istanbul)
B: War Memories of Ottoman Army Officers from Different Ethnic Backgrounds. The Influence of Origin, Military Education and Common War Experience
Divergent Loyalties and Their Memory: How Three Albanians Shaped Their Histories of the Great War Isa Blumi (Trinity College, Hartford CT)
West and East as Analyed by a Disappointed Arab Officer and First World War Veteran Mahmoud Haddad (University of Balamand, Lebanon)
Marshal Fevzi Çakmak's Diaries: Records of the First World War Nilüfer Hatemi (Yeditepe University, Istanbul)
'Sherifian' Officers in Interwar Iraq and 'Germanophilia' - A Heritage of the German-Ottoman Military Partnership? The Case of Jaʿfar al-ʿAskarī Peter Wien (Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)
C: Ideological Reasoning of War Participation, and the Creation of Myths, Legends and Heroic Figures
The Role of Islam in German Propaganda in the Arab East during the First World War: Aims, Means, Results and Local Reactions Abdel-Raouf Sinno (Lebanese University, Beirut)
The "Traditional Turco-German Friendship" - Fact or Fiction? Hans-Peter Laqueur (Bremerhaven)
Jamāl Pacha, en une version libanaise L'usage positif d'une légende noire Youssef Mouawad (Lebanese American University of Beirut)
About the authors
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