The Humanitarian Imagination and the Year of the Locust
The Humanitarian Imagination and the Year of the Locust
International Relief in the Wartime Eastern Mediterranean, 1914–1918
This chapter explores the formation of the idea of the “humanitarian imagination” and how it can motivate action (or not) through the case study of the World War One–era flooding of Baghdad and famines and shortages in Beirut and Jerusalem. It also introduces the concept of “unstrangering.”
Keywords: famine relief, Jerusalem, Beirut, American Red Cross, American University in Beirut, American Near East Relief
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