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Arab lefts : histories and legacies, 1950s 1970s. / edited by Laure Guirguis

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[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
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1 online resource (292 pages)
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Guirguis, Laure
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Contents
Intro -- Chapter Abstracts -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Th e Arab Lefts from the 1950s to the 1970s: Transnational Entanglements and Shifting Legacies -- 1. Unforgettable Radicalism: Al-Ittihad 's Words in Hebrew Novels -- 2. Beating Hearts: Arab Marxism, Anti-colonialism and Literatures of Coexistence in Palestine/Israel, 1944-60 -- 3. Free Elections versus Authoritarian Practices: What Baathists Fought For -- 4. Dealing with Dissent: Khalid Bakdash and the Schisms of Arab Communism, 5. A Patriotic Internationalism: The Tunisian Communist Party's Commitment to the Liberation of Peoples -- 6. Internationalist Nationalism: Making Algeria at World Youth Festivals, 1947-62 -- 7. Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental -- 8. Marxism or Left-Wing Nationalism? The New Left in Egypt in the 1970s -- 9. Non-Zionists, Anti-Zionists, Revolutionaries: Palestinian Appraisals of the Israeli Left, 1967-73 -- 10. 'Dismount the horse to pick some roses': Militant Enquiry in Lebanese New Left Experiments, 1968-73, and 11. The 'Che Guevara of the Middle East': Remembering Khalid Ahmad Zaki's Revolutionary Struggle in Iraq's Southern Marshes -- 12. Crisis and Critique: The Transformation of the Arab Radical Tradition between the 1960s and the 1980s -- 13. The Afterlives of Husayn Muruwwa: The Killing of an Intellectual, 1987 -- Afterword. The Arab Left: From Rumbling Ocean to Revolutionary Gulf -- Index
Summary
Based on an analysis of textual and audio-visual materials, the book surveys radical Left traditions in the Arab world that took shape between the 1950s and 1970s.
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9781474454261 (electronic bk.)
1474454267 (electronic bk.)
9781474454254 (Electronic book (EPUB format)
1474454259
1474454232
9781474454230
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