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Book Synopsis'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. It discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion, diplomacy and identity in the Middle East in the interwar period. This original annotated translation and accompanying articles provide a thorough explication of Khoury’s memoirs and their significance for the social, political and religious histories of twentieth-century Palestine and Arab relations with the Greek Orthodox church. Khoury played a major role in these dynamics as a leading member of the fight for Arab presence in the Greek-dominated clergy, and for an independent Palestine, travelling in 1937 to Eastern Europe and the League of Nations on behalf of the national movement. Contributors: Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Konstantinos Papastathis, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Cyrus Schayegh
Table of ContentsForeword. Khoury’s Memoirs as a Palestinian Palimpsest Cyrus Schayegh Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration Maps of Niqula Khoury’s Trips in the Levant, Western and Eastern Europe Introduction Sarah Irving and Karène Sanchez Summerer 1 National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement Konstantinos Papastathis 2 Eastern Orthodoxy: Snapshots on Arab Orthox in Palestine and Jordan from the Franck Scholten Photographic Collection, 1921–1923 3 Memories Containing the Most Significant Incidents and Events That Occurred during My Lifetime Niqula Khoury, translated and annotated by Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Vicky Moussaed, Konstantinos Papastathis and Karène Sanchez Summerer Bibliography Index
