Historiography and politics in Syria

Rábinovich, Itamar

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Stages In Syrian Historical Writing On the Great Syrian Revolt1

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“…In 1965, a symposium was held by al-Ma 'rifa, a periodical issued by the Ministry of Culture and National Guidance, which tackled the question 'How shall we write our national history?' 30 One of the central issues of the debate was that the 'history of kings' should be replaced by the 'history of the masses'. The new history text-book which came out in the same year still described the Great Syrian Revolt in the traditional way as the culmination of a series of insurrections starting in 1919 against the French Mandate on Syrian soil without treating it as a single event.…”

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