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Thawra Ep. 8 – Origins of the Arab New Left

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the EIGHTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. A compact introduction to the Movement of Arab Nationalists, which in the 1950s built a presence that stretched across the region, from Beirut and Jordan to Cairo and the Gulf—becoming a truly powerful force in Kuwait. Led in significant part by Palestinians, its early history offers a ground-level look at the organizational and theoretical currents shaping radical Arab politics. It is also the backstory for key Marxist groups that later grew out of the Movement: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, South Yemen’s National Liberation Front, and the Dhofar Liberation Front.

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This is the eighth episode of Thawara the Digs rolling series on 20th century Arab politics with historian

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Abdel Rizaktakriti. Thawara is Arabic for revolution. It's a word that contains historical multitudes, diverse

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political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arab lambs over the

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past century.

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Our last installment covered US-backed attacks,

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Preventative Counter-revolution,

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as Nasser rallied the Arab world,

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first against the imperialist-aligned Baghdad Pact,

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and then amid the Suez crisis tripartite aggression.

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