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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the seventh episode of Thawara, the

Diggs Rolling Series on 20th century Arab politics with historian Abdel Razak Tikriti.

Thawara is Arabic for revolution.

It's a word that contains historical multitudes.

Diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across

Arab lands over the past century. Last episode we left off discussing tightly

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