Introduction - Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri<div><br></div><div>Part I Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy</div><div>Introduction: Indigenising cultural diplomacy? - Sarah Irving</div><div>Orthodox Clubs and Associations: Cultural, Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Jordan, 1925-1970 - Norig Neveu</div>Palestinian Translators and Intellectuals during Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: Russian Language in the Experiences of Khalil Baydas and Najati Sidqi - Sadia Agsous<div>Sound Power: Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem - Maria Chiara Rioli and Riccardo Castagnetti</div><div>The Melkite Community, Educational Policy and French Cultural Diplomacy: Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee - Charbel Nassif</div><div>Cultural Diplomacy in Mandatory Haifa: The Role of Christian Communities in the City’s Cultural Transformation - Maayan Hillel</div><br><div>Part II Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate</div><div>Introduction: Arab Virtù and the Philosophy of History: Excavating, Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate - Philippe Bourmaud </div><div>Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: Historical and Archaeological Narratives in a Colonial Space - Sarah Irving</div><div>Between Diplomacy and Science: British Mandate Palestine and its International Network of Archaeological Organisations, 1918-1938 - Mathilde Sigalas </div><div>Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine - Nisa Ari</div><div><br></div><div>Part III Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors</div><div>Introduction: European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine - Heather J. Sharkey</div><div>Between Athens and Al Quds: The Greek Community in Late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem - Konstantinos Papastathis</div><div>Russia and Orthodoxy in Palestine, 1900-1930s: Diplomacy, Institutions, Personalities - Lora Gerd</div><div>Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine, 1915–1938 - Barbara Haider-Wilson</div><div>A Coherent Inconsistency: Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine, 1918-1936 - Roberto Mazza</div><div>The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and the Latin Patriarchate’s Cultural Diplomacy in the British Mandate Period - Paolo Maggiolini </div><div>A “Significant Swedish Outpost”: The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920-1930 - Inger Marie Okkenhaug</div><div>French Cultural Efforts Towards Jerusalem’s Arab Population in Late British Mandate Palestine - Dominique Trimbur</div><div><br></div><div>Conclusion: Cultural Affiliations and Identity Constructs during the British Mandate for Palestine - Tamara van Kessel</div><div><br></div><div>Epilogue: Secularist Networks, Cultural Institutions and Cultural Diplomacy in the Levantine Mandates - Idir Ouahes </div>