https://www.elizabethfthompson.org/about daily 1.0 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5efd5bd001ca1043e87d1cde/1594876778261-5JC75HK2CL0E3DGIPG0W/Elizabeth_Thompson_02_DA+CROP+copy.jpeg https://www.elizabethfthompson.org/books daily 0.75 2020-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5efd5bd001ca1043e87d1cde/1594599465812-XGK17G4T05KFCNUEFU68/HOW+THE+WEST+final+cover.jpeg BOOKS - How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance April 21, 2020 When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against the Turks. The British supported the Arabs’ fight for an independent state and sent an intelligence officer, T.E. Lawrence, to join Prince Faisal, leader of the Arab army and a descendant of the Prophet. In October 1918, Faisal, Lawrence, and the Arabs victoriously entered Damascus, where they declared a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5efd5bd001ca1043e87d1cde/1594620528931-M9PTURJJBTLWZR83WDSY/Justice+Interrupted.jpg BOOKS - Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East April 15, 2013 The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were―and saw themselves as―heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law, a struggle obstructed by local elites as well as the interventions of foreign powers. Elizabeth F. Thompson uncovers the deep roots of liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East through the remarkable stories of those who fought against poverty, tyranny, and foreign rule. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5efd5bd001ca1043e87d1cde/1593667301916-K4Y6M85IAPHP576L6Y29/First+book.jpg BOOKS - Colonial Citizens Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon February 5, 2000 French rule in Syria and Lebanon coincided with the rise of colonial resistance around the world and with profound social trauma after World War I. In this tightly argued study, Elizabeth Thompson shows how Syrians and Lebanese mobilized, like other colonized peoples, to claim the terms of citizenship enjoyed in the European metropole. The negotiations between the French and citizens of the Mandate set the terms of politics for decades after Syria and Lebanon achieved independence in 1946. https://www.elizabethfthompson.org/talks daily 0.75 2020-08-16 https://www.elizabethfthompson.org/publicity daily 0.75 2021-03-26 https://www.elizabethfthompson.org/articles daily 0.75 2025-09-09