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Andrew Arsan’s Interlopers of Empire examines how migrants from this country established economic dominance in cities like Dakar, Conakry, and Abidjan, despite comprising at most a tenth of the population. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this modern-day country. The first waves of migrants from this country to West Africa occurred during a silkworm crisis and Maronite religious conflict under Ottoman rule in the mid-18th century.
ANSWER: Lebanon [or Republic of Lebanon or al-Jumhūriyyat al-Lubnāniyya or République libanaise]
[10e] Emmanuel Akyeampong argues that Levantines in West Africa, especially Maronite Christians, benefited from the scientific racism-based policies of this colonizing power of Lebanon, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire.
ANSWER: France [or French Republic or République française]
[10h] In World on Fire, Amy Chua argues that colonial power-sharing systems enabled Maronites to become a “market-dominant minority” in Latin America, West Africa, and Lebanon itself, although this 1989 agreement aimed to rebalance religious and economic power in Lebanon.
ANSWER: Ṭāʾif Agreement [or Ittifāq aṭ-Ṭāʾif]
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