George Antonius

George Habib Antonius (Arabic: جورج حبيب أنطونيوس, * October 19, 1891 in Deir el- Qamar, Ottoman Empire, † May 21, 1941 in Jerusalem) was a Lebanese writer. He is considered the first Arab historians of Arab nationalism.

Life

Anthony's parents were Greek Orthodox Christians. He grew up in Egypt and worked under the British mandate in Palestine. In 1938 he wrote, in the Shepherd Hotel dwelling, the book The Arab Awakening.

Anthony saw the origins of Arab nationalism in the tenure of Mehmet Ali Pasha in Egypt. He argued that Arab nationalism is a Western product, specially came from the Protestant missionaries from the United Kingdom and the United States. He measured the American University of Beirut ( originally the Syrian Protestant College) a central role in the development of Arab nationalism.

While George Anthony is seen as the founder of the Arab nationalist history, modern historians have many problems with Antony works. Many of his conclusions were rejected by revisionist historians. Anthony was a Palestinian delegate to the St. James Conference in London in February 1939.