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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance Copertina flessibile – 6 maggio 2021

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When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria.

Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, but other Entente powers plotted to protect their colonial interests. Under threat of European occupation, the Syrian-Arab Congress declared independence on March 8, 1920 and crowned Faisal king of a 'civil representative monarchy.' Sheikh Rashid Rida, the most prominent Islamic thinker of the day, became Congress president and supervised the drafting of a constitution that established the world's first Arab democracy and guaranteed equal rights for all citizens, including non-Muslims.

But France and Britain refused to recognize the Damascus government and instead imposed a system of mandates on the pretext that Arabs were not yet ready for self-government. In July 1920, the French invaded and crushed the Syrian state. The fragile coalition of secular modernizers and Islamic reformers that had established democracy was destroyed, with profound consequences that reverberate still.

Using previously untapped primary sources, including contemporary newspaper accounts, reports of the Syrian-Arab Congress, and letters and diaries from participants, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary, brief moment of unity and hope - and of its destruction.

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    6 maggio 2021
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    12.9 x 3.5 x 19.8 cm
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    1611854644
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1611854640
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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; Main edizione (6 maggio 2021)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 496 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611854644
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611854640
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M. A. Seifter
5,0 su 5 stelle The Great Theft of Democracy from the Arabs
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 novembre 2021
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Elizabeth Thompson has written a profoundly interesting, readable and valuable contribution to Middle Eastern scholarship. In this volume she has given all the leading figures a three dimensional reality, and full personalities. Her text narrates how the Western allies, victors of World War I, proceeded to discard Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and reserve the Middle Eastern lands of Iraq, and, chiefly here, Syria and Lebanon, for a continuation of Great Power imperialism under the fig-leaf guise of Mandates. These mandates would, on paper, prepare these countries and peoples for independence and full sovereignty, but, in reality, would only be a shell for continued European colonial rule. Two individuals stand head and shoulders above the rest in Thompson's narrative: First was Prince Faisal ibn Hussein, the presumptive parliamentary king of an independent, parliamentary monarchic Syria, and quite hopeful of these political destinies for his country and his people-yet cheated of his hopes by double-dealing European diplomats at Versailles, and then by high commissioners and governors, until he was finally booted out of Syria by the French after they crushed Syrian military forces in 1925, and then offered the booby prize of being offered, and then named the puppet king in a still-British-dominated Iraq. And one might mention Rashid Rida, the journalist, "Modern Islamist" and nationalist activist, who, unlike Faisal, saw through the wiles of the French and the British at Versailles in 1919, and rose to the helm of leadership of nationalist forces striving desperately in the 1920s for Syrian national unity and independence as based on, again, the Fourteen Points. Thompson's narrative is superbly readable, and, along with other writings by Eugene Rogen and James Gelvin, and several other historians of the region, her book offers the general reader and academic scholarship a new wisdom into the chaos, high promise and ultimate betrayals in the post-WWI Middle East. She also offers a convincing diagnosis of the reasons for the contemporary upheaval and violence in Syria since 2011, though without harping (too much) on the guilt of the West in helping to perpetuate entrenched Syrian (et al) authoritarianism, and equally entrenched ethno-religious divisiveness that allow not only the Asad regime to rule bloodily indefinitely in Damascus, but a militant, insurrectionary Islamic radicalism to develop under the authority of Hasan al banna, Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood. Thompson has also, valuably, included important documentation in her appendices, namely members of the Syrian Congress in 1920, the Syrian declaration of Independence (3/1920), and the Syrian Constitution (7/1920). My only criticism of the book is the author's prolonged citation of footnotes at the rear of the volume, which might have been shortened considerably. Yet, all in all, a superlative book for a better understanding of the Middle East and the modern travails of the Arab people of Syria. Well worth a purchase.
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Monika Thiel
5,0 su 5 stelle Ware zügig geliefert, alles OK
Recensito in Germania il 28 ottobre 2020
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Gerne wieder!
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Geoff H.
3,0 su 5 stelle Interesting but flawed study
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 17 ottobre 2020
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A fascinating study of the rise and fall of the Arab kingdom in Syria, characterised by Britain’s betrayal of the Arab revolt and France’s colonial ambitions. Thompson’s book contained much that I did not know, and was valuable in filling out the troubled picture of Faisal between his arrival in Damascus and his coronation in Iraq, and of the local politics surrounding the establishment of the kingdom. I cannot say how much of this is original research, and how much derived from elsewhere. The book has two main failings. The first is Thompson’s rather shouty manner. I understand her engagement, but she can too often appear to be drifting into the partisan or the polemic. The second is the writing, which can be repetitive, and shoukd really have been tightened up by a decent editor. Her judgments too are often dubious. For example, reports, apparently approvingly, Rida’s conclusions that a treaty between Sharif Hussein and Ibn Saud would have secured troops to combat France. But there was never any possibility of a treaty with Saud’s violent Wahhabi bigots, who were interested only in conquest if the Hejaz, and nor would his Bedouin forces have been able to combat France’s in open warfare. Faisal’s cautious approach reflected a bitter reality. And we get well into a gushing view of Woodrow Wilson before Thompson refers - in a rather mealy-mouthed way, to his virulent racism. So, in all, very useful, but could have been better.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Important but with a view point
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 18 febbraio 2024
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Whilst I do not agree with with the premise, it is a valid argument.
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Jo Phoenix
5,0 su 5 stelle finally, the arab side's point of view
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 ottobre 2021
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Finally! You get to hear what the arabs went through, what were they told, and how they were forced into mandates. History is written by the victor, so the Arab view was previously lost to history. This follows King Faisal's point of view in detail. Very interesting read. Glad these details were not erased with history.
Basically a summary on how the French and English conspired behind the Arabs and American's backs to create and control the mandates (1920's).
Another book "A line in the sand" discusses better how the British and French later stabbed each other in the back to remove the mandates (1940's) to finish the story.

Thank you Ms Thompson for giving the Arabs a voice.
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