Sound Minds in Sound Bodies

Transnational Philanthropy and Patriotic Masculinity in Al-Nadi Al-Homsi and Syrian Brazil, 1920–32

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8968568
AutoresStacy D Fahrenthold (0000-0002-6078-6549, Northeastern University, autor correspondente), Stacy Fahrenthold
Ano2014
Volume46
Fascículo2
Páginas259-283
Data de publicação2014-04-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743814000105
OpenAlexW1996145989
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas27

Established in 1920, al-Nadi al-Homsi in São Paulo, Brazil was a young men's club devoted to Syrian patriotic activism and culture in the American mahjar (diaspora). Founded by a transnational network of intellectuals from Homs, the fraternity committed itself to what it saw as a crucial aspect of Syrian national independence under Amir Faysal: the development of a political middle class and a masculine patriotic culture. Al-Nadi al-Homsi directed this project at Syrian youth, opening orphanages, libraries, and schools in both Syria and in Brazil. In these spaces, men and boys congregated to celebrate a polite male culture centered on secular philanthropy, popular education, and corporeal discipline through sports. This article argues that during the 1920s and 1930s, al-Nadi al-Homsi's politics of benevolence was part of a larger social milieu that drew analogies between strong Syrian minds and bodies and a sovereign, independent Syrian homeland

Diaspora · Fraternity · Independence (probability theory · Masculinity · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sound (geography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · Middle East Politics and Society