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Lebanese Power Struggles and Fashioning “Armenian” Space, 1957-1958

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Tsolin Nalbantian
Tsolin Nalbantian*
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Leiden University
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In 1957 and 1958, Lebanese Armenian political parties, through the medium of their newspapers, rearranged the Armenian neighborhoods of Bourj Hamoud and Corniche al-Nahr as Armenian territories, separate from, and often in opposition to, the Lebanese state. These Armenian parties, in vying with one another for authority over this territory, fashioned Armenian enemies of one another. The internal Armenian enemy of the Armenian nation was constructed from within the national space of Lebanon. The power struggle within the Armenian community in Lebanon challenges the placement of Armenians in the historiography of Lebanon, which considers them as refugees and therefore non-Lebanese or temporary residents of Lebanon as well as passive, impossible political actors.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , Winter 2013 , pp. 218 - 227
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 2013 

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