Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own

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) ...