Armenians Beyond Diaspora

A socio-political and cultural history of the Armenians in Cold War Lebanon Explores Lebanese Armenians’ changing views of their place in the making of the Lebanese state and its wider Arab environment, and in relation to the Armenian Socialist Soviet RepublicChallenges the dominant Armenian historiography, which treats Lebanese Armenians as a subsidiary of an Armenian global diasporaContributes to an understanding of the development of class and sectarian cleavages that led to the breakdown of