Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Analysis of Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern Studies
Israel Gershoni
Part I: Syria and Lebanon
1. A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese Press
Götz Nordbruch
2. Against the Tide: The Secret Alliance between the Syrian National Bloc Leaders and Great Britain, 1941–1942
Meir Zamir
3. Memoirs Do Not Deceive: Syrians Confront Fascism and Nazism--as Reflected in the Memoirs of Syrian Political Leaders and Intellectuals
Eyal Zisser
Part II: Palestine
4. More than the Mufti: Other Arab-Palestinian Voices on Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, and Their Postwar Narrations
René Wildangel
5. The Spanish Civil War as Reflected in Contemporary Palestinian Press
Mustafa Kabha
Part III: Iraq
6. Iraqi Shadows, Iraqi Lights: Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Voices in Monarchic Iraq, 1932–1941
Orit Bashkin
Part IV: Egypt
7. The View from the Embassy: British Assessments of Egyptian Attitudes during World War II
James Jankowski
8. The Rise of Homemade Egyptian Communism: A Response to the Challenge Posed by Fascism and Nazism?
Rami Ginat
9. "The Crime of Nazism against Humanity": Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of the World War II
Israel Gershoni
10. The War and the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse, 1945–1947
Esther Webman
Part V: Other Arab Voices
11. The Tiger and the Lion: Fascism and Ethiopia in Arab Eyes
Haggai Erlich
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index