Shemlan

Shemlan

EnglishHardback
Craig, James
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN: 9780333689677
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Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western government was taking pains to teach its citizens Arabic and inform them of Arab history, society and religion made the Arabs suspicious. The success of MECAS in producing specialists who were the envy of other governments produced doubt and anxiety. The power of MECAS to attract British but also foreign diplomats and businessmen should have made it a profitable enterprise; instead there was constant penny-pinching and reluctance to invest. In retrospect it looks like an excellent idea developed by improvisation through its early troubles which was then allowed to die in its prime. Was it yet another example of a British invention unexploited?
EAN 9780333689677
ISBN 0333689674
Binding Hardback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date August 18, 1998
Pages 203
Language English
Dimensions 216 x 140
Country United Kingdom
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Craig, James
Illustrations XIV, 203 p.
Edition 1998
Series St Antony's Series