Versailles treated the people of Greater Syria and Iraq—Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike—as inferiors in need of “civilizational therapy.”

Sherene Seikaly
Sherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016). She is following the trajectory of her great-grandfather in her forthcoming book project, “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine.” This project was supported, in part, by funding from the University of California Presidential Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities.