How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance

Thompson, Elizabeth F.

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

05/2021

496

Mole

Inglês

9781611854640

15 a 20 dias

447

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PART I: AN ARAB STATE IN SYRIA 1: Damascus: Enter the Prince 2: Aleppo: A Government and Justice for All 3: Cairo: A Sheikh Prays to an American President PART II: A CHILLY PEACE AT PARIS 4: Wooing Woodrow Wilson 5: The Covenant and the Colonial Color Line 6: A Sip of Champagne, with a Sour Aftertaste PART III: SYRIA'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 7: The Syrian Congress and the American Commission 8: A Democratic Uprising in Damascus 9: Revolution at the Quai d'Orsay 10: The Prince, the Sheikh, and "The Day of Resurrection" 11: Wilsonism Colonized at San Remo PART IV: THE CONSTITUTION: A CIVIL WEAPON AGAINST COLONIZATION 12: The Sheikh versus the King: A Parliamentary Revolution 13: Women's Suffrage and the Limits of Islamic Law 14: A Democratic Constitution for Christians and Muslims PART V: SYRIA'S EXPULSION FROM THE CIVILIZED WORLD 15: Battle Plans for Syria 16: The French Ultimatum and Faisal's Dissolution of Congress 17: Maysalun: The Arab State's Last Stand 18: Wilson's Ghost in Geneva Epilogue: Parting of Ways-The Liberal, the Sheikh, and the King Appendix A: Members of Congress in March 1920 Appendix B: The Syrian Declaration of Independence, March 8, 1920 Appendix C: The Syrian Constitution of July 19, 1920
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Syria; Syrian congress; Arab congress; Woodrow Wilson; Damascus; League of Nations; Rashid Rida; Prince Faisal; Ottoman; Ottoman Empire; Syrian constitution; Arab spring; T.E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia