George Antonius

George Antonius
جورج حبيب أنطونيوس
Born(1891-10-19)October 19, 1891
DiedMay 21, 1942(1942-05-21) (aged 50)
RegionEastern Mediterranean
SchoolNationalism, Arab nationalism
Main interests
History, Literature
Tombstone of George Antonius at the Orthodox cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The epitaph says "Heed and awaken, O Arabs".

George Habib Antonius, CBE (hon.) (Arabic: جورج حبيب أنطونيوس; October 9, 1891 – May 21, 1942) was a Lebanese author and diplomat who settled in Jerusalem. He was one of the first historians of Arab nationalism. Born in Deir al Qamar[1] to a Lebanese Eastern Orthodox Christian family, he served as a civil servant in the British Mandate of Palestine. His 1938 book The Arab Awakening generated an ongoing debate over such issues as the origins of Arab nationalism, the significance of the Arab Revolt of 1916, and the machinations behind the post-World War I political settlement in West Asia and North Africa. In the book, he raised concern about the fate of religious coexistence in Palestine in the face of Zionist colonization, while also recognizing the horror of anti-Jewish Nazism.[2]

  1. ^ Cleveland, William (2001). "The Worlds of George Antonius". Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 126. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-62114-9_9. ISBN 978-1-349-62114-9. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  2. ^ Makdisi, Ussama Samir (2019). Age of coexistence: the ecumenical frame and the making of the modern Arab world. Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-520-97174-5.

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