Karène Sanchez Summerer - European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection

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This volume is one of the results of a NWO (the Dutch Research Council) research project CrossRoads. European Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (19181948). A connected History and a NWO Aspasia Grant. We would like to thank the Dutch Research Council for financing this research project, as well as the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) and the MisSMO (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization- XIXthXXIth centuries) for their support of the international workshops where some of the papers for this book were first presented and discussed.

We are grateful to many colleagues in Leiden, Jerusalem, Paris, London, New York, Beirut and elsewhere who, through their contributions to the conference, the workshop and through extended email conversations and many coffees helped us to flesh out our questions and approaches.

We would also like to thank Sarah Irving for her invaluable work within CrossRoads since September 2019, Lara van der Hammen for her constant and efficient support to the CrossRoads team, and Carolien van Zoest for helping to facilitate and coordinate NINOs support. Other scholars took up our invitation to come and discuss our ideas and findings with us. We heartily thank David Clarke, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Lorenzo Medici and Anthony OMahony for their stimulating engagement with our project.

We are grateful to some of our partners for their support and their scholar in residence programs we greatly benefited from in our way to this volume (EFR Ecole franaise de Rome, Al MaAmal Foundation Jerusalem, the Ecole biblique et archologique franaise de Jrusalem EBAF, the Australian Archeological Institute in Athens) and the Leiden University special collections. We would also like to thank the Rijksmuseum Oudheden (RMO) for hosting sections of the conference, the Frank Scholten and Palestine exhibition and the public event Cultural diplomacy and archeology during the British Mandate period.

Finally, we thank the colleagues who contributed to this volume in particular, those who published, and those who for various reasons could not write but contributed to our discussions.