The Peace Conference: a Challenge for the Nationalists
The Nationalists Movements went to Paris to defend their objectives during the Peace Conference, which was to open on January 18, 1919. Those of the Middle East were split into three or even four movements, according to the geographical outlines of the region and the governance modes. Arab Nationalism, embodied by Sharif Hussein of Mecca, and then by his son, Faisal, required the independence of Greater Syria, encompassing Lebanon and Palestine. For its part, the Syrian Central Committee, founded in Paris in 1917, also claimed Greater Syria, but under the control of France. As for the Lebanese Nationalist Movement, it entailed the creation of a Greater Lebanon, detached from Syria and exceeding the geographical area granted to the Mutasarrifiya of Mount Lebanon in 1816. It is, however, divided by the status of the future State: The Lebanese Committee of Paris and the Lebanese Alliance of Egypt advocated independence, while the Administrative Council of Mount Lebanon called for autonomy under the aegis of France. * The Lebanese National Party proposal for an independent Greater Lebanon, and the establishment of a Lebanese government.
الحزب الوطني اللبناني: البرنامج والقانون. مصر: مطبعة بروكاتشيا، 1920
*Rida Nassar, Liliane (2010). Ces Marseillais venus d'Orient : L'immigration libanaise à Marseille aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Paris: Karthala, 43. [Translated by the University Libraries]
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Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
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Reel 125, 12 p.
The Lebanese Alliance in Egypt and the question of Lebanon.
L'alliance Libanaise D'Egypte et la Question du Liban. Le Caire: Imp. J. Kawa, 1921.
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Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
Série: E-Levant 1918-1929
Sous -Série: Syrie-Liban-Cilicie
Reel 125, 36 p.
Syria before The Peace Conference: memorandum to Georges Clemenceau and the Delegates of the Allied Powers.
Comité Central Syrien, Paris. La Syrie devant La Conférence: Mémoire à Georges Clemenceau et à MM. les Délégués des Puissances Alliées et Associées à cette Conférence. Paris, 1919.
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Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
Série: E-Levant 1918-1929
Sous -Série: Syrie-Liban-Cilicie Reel 125, 36 p.
A short biography of Mr. Chekri Ghanem, President of the Syrian Central Committee in Paris.
Comités d'Egypte, Caire. Hommage à M. Chécri Ganem. Le Caire: Imp. A. Procaccia, 1921.
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Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
Série: E-Levant 1918-1929
Sous -Série: Syrie-Liban-Cilicie
Reel 125, pp.8-9
Greater Lebanon of Syria At The Peace Conference, October 1919. A paper presented by Mr. Cyrille Moghabghab.
Le Grand-Liban De Syrie À La Conférence De La Paix: Octobre 1919. [Signé : Cyrille Moghabghab.]. Paris: Impr. L. Desvignes, 1919.
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Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
Série: E-Levant 1918-1929
Sous -Série: Syrie-Liban-Cilicie
Reel 125, 18 p.
Statement by Dr. Howard Bliss to Versailles Peace Conference 1919
The statement contains a plea, on behalf of the people of Syria, that an inter-Allied or a Neutral Commission to be sent to Syria and Lebanon, in order to give the opportunity to the people to express perfectly their wishes and aspirations as to what form of government they desire, and as to what Power, if any, should be their Mandatory Protecting Power.
* Penrose, Stephen B. L. That they may have life : the story of the American University of Beirut, 1866-1941. New York: Trustees of American University of Beirut, 1941.