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This is the fourth episode of Thawara, the Diggs news series on 20th century Arab politics

with historian Abdel Razak Takriti.

Thawara is Arabic 4 revolution.

It's a word that contains historical multitudes.

Diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arab lands over the past century.

Today's installment lays out the politics surrounding the Zionist settler colonial destruction of Palestine, the Nachba of 1948,

and a seismic event that followed in its wake,

the 1952 Egyptian-free officers movement coup, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, that would set the tone for two

decades of revolutionary nationalism across the region.

We also discuss why the Soviet camp supported the colonial partition of Palestine,

and the calamitous impact of Moscow's decision upon powerful communist parties

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