This book is a comprehensive history of the lebanese migrant communities of colonial french west africa a vast expanse covering present day senegal cote divoire mali guinea benin and mauritania while others have concentrated on these migrants role in the colonial economy this work reconstructs not just their commercial undertakings and strategies but also their everyday . Interlopers of empire the lebanese diaspora in colonial french west africa amazonde arsan andrew fremdsprachige bucher. Attentive as it is to the rhythms of daily life as well as to migrants fraught and often frayed relations with home interlopers of empire the lebanese diaspora in colonial french west africa is closer to a social history of migration than to a political or an economic one it should attract the attention of scholars interested in commercial diasporas in south south migrations and in the . Andrew arsan interlopers of empire the lebanese diaspora in colonial french west africa london hurst co 2014 pp 452 gbp3000 cloth reviewed by elizabeth f thompson department of history university of virginia charlottesville va e mail eft3kvirginiaedu andrew arsans interlopers of empire rewards the reader on multiple levels first it is an encyclopedic retelling of the . Interlopers of empire the lebanese diaspora in colonial french west africa andrew arsan this work is the first comprehensive history of the lebanese migrant communities of colonial french west africa a vast expanse that covered present day senegal cote divoire mali guinea benin and mauritania