CIAO DATE: 03/01

Altruism and Imperialism: The Western Religious and Cultural Missionary Enterprise in the Middle East

• Introduction

• Background & Context

  The Missionary Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century: An Overview
  Andrew Porter, Cecil Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, Kings College, University of London.

  On Doing Much with Little Noise: Early Encounters of Protestant Missionaries in Lebanon
  Samir Khalaf, Director, Center for Behavioral Research, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

   

• Diplomatic Relations

  The Case of the Curse: The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, and the Jews of Baghdad
  Reeva Simon, Assistant Director, Middle East Institute, Columbia University

  Neither Conspiracy nor Hypocrisy: The Jesuits and the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
  Elizabeth Thompson, Department of History, University of Virginia

   

• Missionary Experience and Impact

  Turkey

  Masking the Mission: Cultural Conversion at the American College for Girls
  Carolyn Goffman, Department of English, Ball State University

  Some Remarks on Alevi Responses to the Missionaries in Eastern Anatolia (19th-20th Centuries)
  Hans-Lukas Kieser, University of Basel, Switzerland

  Trouble Wherever They Went: American Missionaries in Anatolia and Ottoman Syria in the 19th Century
  Jeremy Salt, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

  The Arab World

  An "Extra legible Illustration of the Christian Faith": Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Missionaries in the Arabian Gulf
  Eleanor Doumato, Watson Institute of International Affairs, Brown University

  Missions and Architecture: Colonial and Post-Colonial Views‹The Case of Palestine
  Ruth Kark, Department of Geography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

  Modernity's Mission: Evangelical Efforts to Discipline the Nineteenth Century Coptic Community
  Paul Sedra, New York University

  Iran

  Onward Christian Soldiers: Presbyterian Missionaries and the Ambiguous Origins of American Relations with Iran
  Michael Zirinsky, Boise State University

   

• The Muslim Reaction

  Syrian Muslim Attitudes Toward Foreign Missionaries in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Mahmoud Haddad, Balamand University, Tripoli, Lebanon

  Overlapping Modernities: From Christian Missionary to Muslim Reform Schooling in Egypt
  Linda Herrera, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

   

• The Way Forward

  Faith of Our Fathers: Near East Relief and the Near East Foundation — From Mission to NGO
  Eleanor H. Tejirian, Middle East Institute, Columbia University