Arab responses to fascism and Nazism : attraction and repulsion / edited by Israel Gershoni.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the study of Arab responses to fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern studies / Israel Gershoni -- A challenge to the local order : reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese press / Gøtz Nordbruch -- Against the tide : the secret alliance between the Syrian National Bloc leaders and Great Britain, 1941-1942 / Meir Zamir -- Memoirs do not deceive : Syrians confront fascism and Nazism -- as reflected in the memoirs of Syrian political leaders and intellectuals / Eyal Zisser -- More than the mufti : other Arab-Palestinian voices on Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, and their postwar narrations / Renø Wildangel -- The Spanish Civil War as reflected in contemporary Palestinian press / Mustafa Kabha -- Iraqi shadows, Iraqi lights : anti-fascist and anti-Nazi voices in monarchic Iraq, 1932-1941 / Orit Bashkin -- The view from the embassy : British assessments of Egyptian attitudes during World War II / James Jankowski -- The rise of homemade Egyptian communism : a response to the challenge posed by fascism and Nazism? / Rami Ginat -- "The crime of Nazism against humanity" : Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the outbreak of the World War II / Israel Gershoni -- The war and the Holocaust in the Egyptian public discourse, 1945-1947 / Esther Webman -- The tiger and the lion : fascism and Ethiopia in Arab eyes / Haggai Erlich.