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SOUND MINDS IN SOUND BODIES: TRANSNATIONAL PHILANTHROPY AND PATRIOTIC MASCULINITY IN AL-NADI AL-HOMSI AND SYRIAN BRAZIL, 1920–32

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Abstract

Established in 1920, al-Nadi al-Homsi in São Paulo, Brazil was a young men's club devoted to Syrian patriotic activism and culture in the American mahjar (diaspora). Founded by a transnational network of intellectuals from Homs, the fraternity committed itself to what it saw as a crucial aspect of Syrian national independence under Amir Faysal: the development of a political middle class and a masculine patriotic culture. Al-Nadi al-Homsi directed this project at Syrian youth, opening orphanages, libraries, and schools in both Syria and in Brazil. In these spaces, men and boys congregated to celebrate a polite male culture centered on secular philanthropy, popular education, and corporeal discipline through sports. This article argues that during the 1920s and 1930s, al-Nadi al-Homsi's politics of benevolence was part of a larger social milieu that drew analogies between strong Syrian minds and bodies and a sovereign, independent Syrian homeland.

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Author's note: All of mahjar studies is a collaborative endeavor, and this contribution is no different. I thank Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Akram Khater, Laura Frader, Shakir Mustafa, Ross Newton, Burleigh Hendrickson, David Schultz, and the reviewers at IJMES for their invaluable feedback as I completed this article. Discussions with Isa Blumi, Andrew Arsan, Stephen Hyland, and John Karam influenced this project's evolution, and I owe them each much gratitude.

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2 Madīnat al-ḥarāra translates here loosely as “city of the sun,” and references Homs’ ancient past. The city was once a settlement devoted to al-gabal, the sun deity. In the Roman period, Apollo became the city's patron. Orthodox Homsis in Brazil frequently invoked images of fire, light, and heat in praise of Homs and its emigrants abroad. Jurj Atlas, “Shabibat Homs fi al-Mahjar,” al-Karma, October 1914, 266.

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5 Al-Nadi al-Homsi's first library opened on Rua 25 de Março in 1923. When the clubhouse moved in the 1940s, much of the original Arabic collection was donated to Harvard University within the personal papers of Syrian intellectuals. Two common practices allowed me to track these materials. First, the stamps and inscriptions of Maktabat al-Nadi al-Homsi and of the persons who borrowed, bought, and donated the materials establish a visible chain of transfer. Second, because the Syrian emigrant press functioned on a mail-order subscription system, the mobility of texts can be traced through postage markers and the locations of subscribers.

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33 In 1910, Sallum Mukarzil developed the Arabic wax linotype press, making printing in Arabic less costly. A burst of Arabic printing in the Americas followed. Mokarzel, Mary, Al-Hoda 1898–1968: The Story of Lebanon and Its Emigrants as Taken from the Newspaper al-Hoda (New York: al-Hoda Press, 1968), 34Google Scholar.

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37 Jurj Atlas, “Shabibat Homs fi al-Mahjar,” al-Karma, December 1914, 265.

38 Faris Najm, “al-Sihafa al-Suriyya fi al-Barazil: Min Jamʿiyyat al-Sihafa al-Baraziliyya,” al-Karma, March 1922, 91.

39 Atlas, “Falsafat al-Haqiqa wa-l-Khiyal,” 21.

40 Narbona, “The Development of Nationalist Identities,” 94–95, 105.

41 Al-Nadi al-Homsi, al-Nadi al-Homsi, 7.

42 Ibid., 14.

43 Lacking a formal membership roster, al-Nadi al-Homsi printed the names of the club's executive officers in their silver jubilee volume, revealing a largely Orthodox membership with a sizable Protestant minority. “Jadul al-Muntazimin fi Idarat al-Nadi al-Homsi,” al-Nadi al-Homsi, 107–10.

44 Al-Nadi al-Homsi, al-Nadi al-Homsi, 10–11.

45 Ibid., 8–10, 15.

46 Khalil Saʿadih founded the first known Syrian Masonic lodge in Brazil, al-Najmat al-Suriyya, in 1920. Members of the lodge typically contributed to al-Nadi al-Homsi events, either as speakers or as members. See Hamiya, ʿAli, al-ʿAllama wa-l-Duktur Khalil Saʿadih: Siratuhu wa-Aʿmaluhu (Beirut: al-Furat li-l-Nashr, 2007), 170Google Scholar.

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65 Ibid., 299–301.

66 Saʿadih opened al-Madrasa al-Suriyya in Buenos Aires in 1915; see “Haflat Khariji al-Madrasa al-Suriyya,” al-Majalla 13, no. 13 (December 1915): 377. Salwa Atlas opened a similar school in São Paulo in 1914; see Jurj Atlas, “Haflat Tadshin al-Karma,” al-Karma, July 1914, 90–91; and Salwa Salama Atlas, “al-Mustashfa fi Homs,” al-Karma, January 1927, 20.

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84 Kasheh (cache) refers to the pack carried by itinerant peddlers. Naff, Becoming American, 131–32.

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94 Ibid., 12.

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96 Khabbaz, “Kulliyyat Homs al-Wataniyya,” Homs, 25 June 1922, 7.

97 Jamʿiyyat al-Rabita al-Adabiyya, Aʿmal Jamʿiyyat al-Rabita al-Adabiyya, 5, 19.

98 Al-Nadi al-Homsi, al-Nadi al-Homsi, 29.

99 Al-Nadi al-Homsi member Nazir Zaytun purchased the paper from ʿAtieh in 1924. Asʿad, Tarikh Homs, 529.

100 An important personality in São Paulo's al-Hizb al-Watani al-Suri, Jubran Bunduqi later became a founding member of al-Hizb al-Qawmi al-Ijtimaʿi al-Suri. Antun Saʿadih, al-Athar al-Kamila: al-Risaʾil, al-Juzʾ al-Awwal (Beirut: ʿUmdat al-Thaqafa, 1978), 7.

101 Daud Qustantin al-Khuri, “Sada al-Mahjar: al-Nadi al-Homsi,” Homs, 28 April 1923, 4–5.

102 Ibid., 5.

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107 Atlas, “al-Shab al-Hadith,” 258–59.

108 Wilson Jacob argues that both terms (al-riyāḍa al-jasadiyya and al-riyāḍa al-badaniyya) were coined in the Syrian press in Egypt in the 1890s amid scientific theories analogizing strong male bodies with self-reliance, morality, and sovereignty. Working Out Egypt, 77–79.

109 Atlas, “al-Shab al-Hadith,” 260.

110 Julio Atlas, “Bayt al-Jaliyya,” al-Karma, April 1932, 42.

111 Julio Atlas and Faris Dabaghi, “al-Riyada: Minni illi, al-Tarikh Yaʿad Nafsihi,” al-Karma, July 1931, 54; Daud Qustantin al-Khuri, “Ila al-Nadi al-Homsi iyyaha al-Suri al-Adib,” al-Karma, July 1927, 5–8.

112 Julio Atlas, “Bayt al-Jaliyya,” al-Karma, April 1932, 42.

113 Greiber, Betty Loeb, Maluf, Lina Saigh, and Mattar, Vera Cattini, “Lily Saigh Hachem e Emelie Saigh Calfet,” in Memórias da imigraçao: libaneses e sírios em são paulo (São Paulo: Discurso Editorial, 1998), 5051Google Scholar.

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115 Atlas and Dabaghi, “al-Riyada,” al-Karma, July 1931, 53.

116 Saʿadih, al-Athar al-Kamila, 2–4.

117 Julio Atlas, “Raʾis al-Nadi al-Riyadi al-Suri wa-Hadithuhu ila al-Karma,” al-Karma, August 1931, 29.

118 Nasim Khayrallah, “al-Jaliyya al-ʿArabiyya fi al-Chile: ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Jizawi,” al-Islah, 17 March 1929, 4.

119 Julio Atlas, “al-Batal ʿAbd al-Rahman wa-Hadithuhu ila al-Karma,” al-Karma, July 1931, 41.

120 Ibid., 42–3.

121 Ibid., 44.

122 Rashid al-Khuri, “Ma hiya al-Riyada?,” al-Karma, September 1931, 18–20.