Stacy FahrentholdI recently wrote a blog post over at the Lausanne Project, about the hostile takeover of #Madeira's textile industries by Syrian emigre capital from New York City.
Arriving to Funchal in the middle of #WWI, Syrian American textile firms bought up the island's hand embroideries industry from German manufacturers who were being deported from the island.
The piece comes from my emerging book project on Syrian labor, capital, and the textile industries of the Arab Atlantic.
