2. Against the Tide: The Secret Alliance between the Syrian National Bloc Leaders and Great Britain, 1941–1942

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: An Analysis of Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern Studies 1
6. PART 1. Syria and Lebanon
7. 1. A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese Press 35
8. 2. Against the Tide: The Secret Alliance between the Syrian National Bloc Leaders and Great Britain, 1941–1942 55
9. 3. Memoirs Do Not Deceive: Syrians Confront Fascism and Nazism—as Reflected in the Memoirs of Syrian Political Leaders and Intellectuals 73
10. PART 2. Palestine
11. 4. More than the Mufti: Other Arab-Palestinian Voices on Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, and Their Postwar Narrations 101
12. 5. The Spanish Civil War as Reflected in Contemporary Palestinian Press 127
13. PART 3. Iraq
14. 6. Iraqi Shadows, Iraqi Lights: Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Voices in Monarchic Iraq, 1932–1941 141
15. PART 4. Egypt
16. 7. The View from the Embassy: British Assessments of Egyptian Attitudes during World War II 171
17. 8. The Rise of Homemade Egyptian Communism: A Response to the Challenge Posed by Fascism and Nazism? 195
18. 9. “The Crime of Nazism against Humanity”: Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of World War II 217
19. 10. The War and the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse, 1945–1947 243
20. PART 5. Other Arab Voices
21. 11. The Tiger and the Lion: Fascism and Ethiopia in Arab Eyes 271
22. Notes 289
23. Selected Bibliography 345
24. About the Contributors 355
25. Index 359