The Arab lefts : histories and legacies, 1950s-1970s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Guirguis, Laure (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Left-wing extremists > Arab countries > History > 20th century. Right and left (Political science) > Arab countries > History > 20th century. Arab countries > Politics and government > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of 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
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