Russian-Arab Worlds

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Witness to a New Era: Sergei Pleshcheev's Diary of a Journey to Syria (1773) John Randolph 2. Extraterritorial Entanglements: Russian Jewish Migrants in Ottoman Palestine (1830s-1850s) Eileen Kane 3. Shi'i Worlds Interrupted: Waqf and Pilgrimage in Russia's South Caucasus (1863, 1874, 1876) Zeinab Azarbadegan 4. An Egyptian Teacher Heads to St. Petersburg: al-Tantawi's Gift of the Wise in the Account of the Land of Russia (1840) Suha Kudsieh 5. With the Tsar's Imprimatur: A Slave Sale Deed from Russia's North Caucasus (1864) Sergey Salushchev 6. Population Transfer: Negotiating the Resettlement of Chechen Refugees in the Ottoman Empire (1865, 1870) Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky 7. Russianizing Palestine: Vasilii Khitrovo's A Week in Palestine (1876) and the Charter of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1889) Spencer Scoville 8. Manufacturing Russian Peasants' Attachments to Jerusalem: IPPO Propaganda about the Holy Land (1894-1903) Elena Astafieva 9. Orthodoxy across Borders: Maps of the Institutions of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society Eileen Kane 10. A Reluctant Native Intermediary: Shakirdzhan Ishaev's Journey to Mecca (1896) Eileen Kane 11. Quarantine Politics and the Hajj: Dr. Zabolotnyi's Mission to the Red Sea (1897) Eileen Kane 12. Saluting Russia's Islamic Modernists in the Cairo and Beirut Arabic Press (1899) Roy Bar Sadeh 13. Russian and Soviet Oil Exports to the Persian Gulf (1903-33) Eileen Kane and Masha Kirasirova 14. Memo to Stalin: Lev Karakhan's Argument for Establishing Diplomatic Ties with the Hejaz (1923) Masha Kirasirova 15. Soviet Muslims at the Congress of the Muslim World in Mecca (1926) Norihiro Naganawa 16. Arabic in the Soviet Caucasus: Nadhir al-Durgili's The Delight of Minds in the Biographies of Dagestani Scholars (1920s-30s) Vladimir Bobrovnikov 17. From Syrian Communist to Soviet Orientalist: Taha Sawwaf in the Comintern Files (1935-53) Masha Kirasirova 18. Wartime Schism in the Iraqi Communist Party: A Coded Letter to Moscow (1944) Elizabeth Bishop 19. Armenian Immigration to the USSR from Arab Countries (1946-49) Ara Sanjian 20. The Abandoned Comrades: Egyptian Communists' Pleas to the USSR (1953-54) Rami Ginat 21. Revisiting Russia after Fifty Years: Mikhail Naimy's Beyond Moscow and Washington (1959) Maria Swanson 22. From Nazareth to Moscow: Kulthum 'Awda Vasilieva's ?Happy Life? in Russia (1927, 1937, 1965) Nicole Khayat and Maria Vologzhanina 23. Statistics on Arab Students in the USSR (1959-1991) Constantin Katsakioris 24. Should Dormitory Bathrooms Have Doors? Zakaria Turki's An Upper Egyptian Among the Russians (1967-72) Margaret Litvin 25. A Communist Mourning Icon: Mahmoud Sabri, Iraqi Art Student in Moscow (1960) Suheyla Takesh 26. Soviet Yerevan's Outreach to Armenians in Lebanon (1967-69) Ara Sanjian 27. Lotus Magazine: Soviet-Funded Afro-Asian Literary Transnationalism (1969-70) Rossen Djagalov 28. No Soviet Engineer to Walk in Front of an Egyptian One: Youssef Chahine's Two High Dam Films (1968 and 1970) Ala Younis 29. Soviet Advisers in Egypt before, during, and after Their ?Expulsion? (1972) Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez 30. Ba'thists in Baku: Iraq-Syria Tensions Come to the USSR (1975-77) Etienne Forestier-Peyrat 31. Two Soviet Responses to Frantz Fanon (1978-79) Philipp Casula 32. Aeroflot Routes to Baghdad: Soviet-Iraqi Relations during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-81) Steven E. Harris 33. Aleksandr Yakovlev's Memo about his Conversation with the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Soviet Union (26 November 1990) Mark Kramer 34. ?The Intellectual is a Hybrid Creature?: Khalil Al-Rez's The Russian Quarter (2019) Margaret Litvin Contributors Selected Bibliography Index