2.1 The artist Jorge Batica posing with his finished work and the Ottoman flag in the background. Source: Azize 2020, 2; and Batica's family archive 46
2.2 Letters sent by the community leaders to the provincial authorities asking for the donation of the Plaque. Source: Historical Archive of Córdoba province, Government Ministry, 1910, Volume 21, Sheet 167 48
2.3 Current location of the Plaque, at the Espacio Cultural Museo de las Mujeres (Women’s Museum Cultural Space). Source: picture taken by the authors 50
2.4 The Plaque installed in 2019. Source: photography by the authors 57
2.5 File of the Plaque on the website for the Argentine National Heritage. Source: National Heritage. Syrian Community Commemorative Plaque. Available on: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/pais/patrimonio#451-placa-conmemorativa-de-la-comunidad-siria 58
2.6 The Plaque installed at the Women’s Museum Cultural Space on 13 May 2022 commemorating the declaration of the Great Arab Plaque as a National Historical Asset. Source: photography by the authors 59
2.7 Banner of the Provincial Board on History promoting the revaluation act on May 2022. Source: Facebook fanpage of the Provincial Board on History, 30 May 2022. Available on: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=375510714614260&set=a.303565421808790&locale=es_ES 60
4.1 Hamed Ewais, After a Working Day, 1953. Oil on canvas. Collection of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo. Photo: Nadia Radwan 104
4.2 Hamed Ewais, Reading Worker, 1958. Oil on canvas. Private collection 105
4.3 Hamed Ewais, Nasser and the Nationalisation of the Canal, 1957. Oil on canvas, 113 × 138 cm. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha 106
4.4 Hamed Ewais, Peasant Family, 1959. Oil on canvas, 121 × 102 cm. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha 107
4.5 Hamed Ewais, At the Aswan Dam, 1965. Oil on canvas, 99 × 85 cm. State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow 108
4.6 Hamed Ewais, Le Gardien de la vie (The Protector of Life), 1967–68. Oil on canvas, 132 × 100 cm. Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah 109
5.1 Ricardo Halac’s maternal grandfather, Mr. Zagha, in his house in Damascus, circa 1930. Ricardo Halac’s Personal Archive 137
5.2 The Front Page of the Cultural Supplement of La Opinión dedicated to Bertolt Brecht, prepared and written by Ricardo Halac. “El legado de Bertolt Brecht.” Suplemento Cultural de La Opinión, Diciembre 10: 1–12 138
6.1 The Argentinian filmmaker Jorge Denti during his trip to Lebanon for the filming of Palestine, another Vietnam (1971) 161
6.2 Revue CinémArabe, ns. 4–5, Octobre-Novembre 1976. Courtesy of Jorge Denti. Mariano Mestman Archive 162
Afterword “Worker cartoon”. This copyrighted image appears in: Winn, Peter. 1986. Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 201. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear 212