Armenians Beyond Diaspora

What emerges (from this book) is a post-Genocide Armenian history of - principally - power, renewal and presence, rather than one of loss and absence. * Armenian Voice *
While “diaspora,” as Khachig Tololyan has written, is useful to “think with,” what would it be to think without? Or, as Tsolin Nalbantian urges in her remarkable new book, to think beyond? -- Sylvia Angelique Alajaji * Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies *
Armenians Beyond Diaspora is an important contribution to both Armenian Studies and Lebanese historiography, and through it, Nalbantian offers an exciting new path for how minority communities, rather than serving as footnotes to national or regional histories, can be better understood as socially and politically integral parts of those same histories. -- Sean Lee * Mediterranean Politics *
Armenians Beyond Diaspora is a major contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies. Nalbantian situates Armenians of Lebanon in the larger context of the Middle East during the Cold War period. Through her unique ability of analyzing the political discourse of the time, Nalbantian demonstrates how the bi-polar system had serious ramifications on Lebanon and its Armenian citizens. In this journey between time and space, the local and global, Nalbantian weaves together a narrative that combines history and anthropology in telling the story of a community which has been marginalized in the mainstream historiography of the Middle East in general and Lebanese historiography in particular. -- Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln