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 eaguered-still-powerful-european-empires-new-ideology-took-hold-region-con
 cept-physical-separation-s/
SUMMARY:IMES Lecture Series Ethnic "Homelands": Imagining a New Middle East
 \, 1919 - 1948 With Laura Robson
DESCRIPTION:After 1919\, as much of the Middle East was absorbed into the b
 eleaguered but still powerful European empires\, a new ideology took hold 
 in the region: the concept of physical separation as a “solution” to a
  newly identified “problem” of ethnic and religious pluralism. Across 
 Europe and the United States\, Armenian\, Assyrian\, and Jewish diaspora g
 roups proved anxious to demonstrate their belonging in the ingathering of 
 civilized nation-states by supporting the project of a homogenous national
  “homeland\,” however remote it might be from their actual lived exper
 iences. Diaspora lobbying\, fundraising\, and vocal support for creating e
 thnically based political entities through strategies of transfer and part
 ition also found a reflection in some Arab discourse\, as Palestinian\, Sy
 rian\, and Iraqi Arab nationalists sought to make claims to independent st
 atehood within a global framework that demanded national homogeneity as a 
 corollary to sovereignty. This talk will explore how diaspora communities 
 shaped the emerging political landscape of the modern Middle East as they 
 declared that the only path to legitimate\, recognized political status in
  the new global order was through identification\, however distant\, with 
 an ethnic “homeland.”\n\nLaura Robson is a historian of the modern Mid
 dle East. Her current research and teaching focus on the history of religi
 ous and ethnic minorities in the twentieth century Arab world. She receiv
 ed her PhD from Yale University in 2009 and is now Associate Professor of 
 Modern Middle Eastern History at Portland State University in Portland\, O
 regon.
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:Elliott School of International Affairs\, Lindner Family Commons\,
  Room 602 - See more at: http://pomeps.org/event/new-challenges-for-islami
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 st\, Washington\, DC\, United States
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