POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arab Kingdom Of Syria, Arab Nationalism, Rising Force
31 Jan 2019
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Lecture 4 / middle east, 1920 / january 17, 2019. Cairo, 1919: joint copt-muslim demonstration against british domination. The franco-syrian war: sept. 30, 1918: british forces capture damascus (capital of syria, oct. 5, 1918: with british permission, emir faisal, commander of arab rebels vs. Arab kingdom of syria, declared march 8, 1920. Empires of intelligence: mechanisms of colonial control, after 1918, the rising force of arab nationalism and other forms of indigenous opposition to european rule precluded the maintenance of stable imperial systems in the. Iraq: a british mandate invention : by 1914, the uk wanted iraqi oil, british captured baghdad in march 1917, the british mandate carved iraq out of the ottoman provinces of mosul, baghdad, and. Basra: they imported king faisal from arabia, appointed a sunni monarchy to govern, kurds in north, shi"a in south rejected sunny primacy, british made ultra-strategic kuwait a separate country, angering iraqis.
