Georges Samné

Georges Samné (also Georges Samneh Arabic: جورج سمنة; May 15, 1877 – December 9, 1938) was a Syrian nationalist Francophone medical doctor, intellectual, French colonial publicist, and writer.[1] In 1917, he co-founded the Comité Central Syrien together with Chekri Ganem[2]

Georges Samné
Native name
جورج سمنة
Born(1877-05-15)May 15, 1877
Mansura, Egypt
DiedDecember 9, 1938(1938-12-09) (aged 61)
Paris, France
Occupation
  • Physician
  • Writer
Notable works
    • Au pays du chérif

Biography

Samné was born in Mansura, Egypt, on May 15, 1877, to Greek Orthodox parents of Syrian descent.[1][3]

Samné participated in scholarly and political societies, where he debated the unique role of French colonialism and expansion in the acculturation of the world. He pushed for the French expansion into the Orient. During World War I, he served as advisor to the French government for Syrian affairs, lobbying for the cessation of Greater Syria from the Ottoman Empire.[4] Samné was a supporter of French colonialism. He believed that a universal approach to treating diseases does not suit colonialized peoples,[5] and touted the role of "French women" in spreading "woman to woman" hygiene and public health education to colonized Muslim Tuareg and Bedouin tribes.[6][7] In August 1908, he founded with his Lebanese friend Chekri Ganem the Société des amis de l'Orient. The organization's goals were to promote French interests in the Levant, and to circulate news about the Near East, through the society's bulletin, the Correspondance d'Orient.[8][9] He was a founding member of the Central Syrian Committee, which lobbied for the independence and the unity of Syria.[2]

Bibliography

In history and politics
  • La vie politique orientale en 1909 (1910)
  • Le Liban autonome (de 1861 à nos jours) (1919)
  • La question sioniste (1919)
  • Le Chérifat de La Mecque et l'unité syrienne (1919)
  • L'effort syrien pendant la Guerre (1919)
  • La Khalifat et le Panislamisme (1919)
  • La Syrie (1920)
  • Raymond Poincaré; politique et personnel de la IIIe république (1933)
  • Au Pays du chérif[1][10]

In medicine
  • Les insuffisances de la croissance (1904)[10]

References
  1. BNF. "Georges Samné (1877-1938)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  2. "Statement of the Syrian Delegation to the Peace Conference, Feb. 13, 1919". Center for Online Judaic Studies. 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  3. Wild, Stefan (1988). "Ottomanism versus Arabism. The Case of Farid Kassab (1884-1970)". Die Welt des Islams. 28 (1/4): 607–627. doi:10.2307/1571198. ISSN 0043-2539. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  4. Murray-Miller, Gavin (2022-05-12). Empire Unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880-1918. Oxford University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-19-267779-2. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  5. Amster, Ellen J. (2013-08-15). Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956. University of Texas Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-292-74544-5. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  6. Amster, Ellen J. (2013-08-15). Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956. University of Texas Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-292-74544-5. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  7. Samné, Georges (1904). De l'Assistance considérée comme un moyen de colonisation: L'assistance au Maroc- rapport présenté au congrès coloniale française, tenu à Paris (in French). p. 29.
  8. Ganem, Chekri; Samné, Georges; Samné, Christian (1908). "Correspondance d'Orient : revue économique, politique & littéraire / directeurs : Chekri-Ganem, Dr Georges Samné - 33 Years available - Gallica". gallica.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  9. Wild, Stefan (1988). "Ottomanism versus Arabism. The Case of Farid Kassab (1884-1970)". Die Welt des Islams. 28 (1/4): 610–611. doi:10.2307/1571198. ISSN 0043-2539. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  10. Worldcat. "Samné, Georges 1877-1938". Worldcat. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
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