(Ebook) Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own by Tsolin Nalbantian ISBN 9781474458566, 9781474458580, 9781474458597, 1474458564, 1474458580, 1474458599

(Ebook) Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own by Tsolin Nalbantian ISBN 9781474458566, 9781474458580, 9781474458597, 1474458564, 1474458580, 1474458599

This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial 1940s and 1950s.Tsolin Nalbantian explores Armenians’ discursive re-positioning within the newly independent Lebanese nation-state; the political-cultural impact (in Lebanon as well as Syria) of the 1946–8 repatriation initiative to Soviet Armenia; the 1956 Catholicos election; and the 1957 Lebanese elections and 1958 mini-civil war. What emerges is a post-Genocide Armenian history of – principally – power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence.