Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today. However, many of the manifold connections, exchanges, and entanglements between the areas have not received thorough scholarly attention yet. The contributors to this volume address this by bringing together various innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. It thereby furthers the understanding of the two areas' entangled histories and diversifies prevailing concepts and narratives. Through this, the volume also offers enriching insights into the global history of the early 20th century.

Introduction / Anna Bundt & Leon Julius Biela -- Hotels, immigrant houses, and special neighborhoods : global mobility, nation formation, and ethnonational partition in Jaffa-Tel Aviv, ca. 1908-1927 / Felicitas Remer -- From their classes to the masses : youth volunteerism and rural welfare in interwar Lebanon and Syria / Joseph Leidy -- A clash of concepts : Communist agitation and organized labor in Lebanon during the French Mandate / Thomas E. Jakob -- Contesting imperialism in Geneva : interwar arms-traffic conferences and the Anglo-Iranian confrontation / Leon Julius Biela -- Post-Ottoman diasporas, identity formation, and America's world fairs in the interwar period / Semih Gökatalay -- Translation as means of self-representation in Weimar Berlin Muslim journals / Anna-Elisabeth Hampel -- Beyond sea and desert : journeying between London and Baghdad in the interwar years / César Jaquier -- A fort under another name : "imperial" architecture as a tool of Bedouin control in the British Mandate / Margaret Freeman -- Loopholes in the law : how the performance of British masculinity saved the lives of honor killers in mandatory Palestine / Katie Laird.