Thawra Epilogue: Islamic Revolution and Gulf Wars

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 201 minutes

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Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the first of a two-part epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment covers the Iranian Islamic Revolution’s huge impact across the Arab East alongside Saudi and Egyptian efforts to foster religious conservative movements in an effort to supplant and suppress the secular nationalist left. Plus the Iran-Iraq War, the mujahideen in Afghanistan, the First Intifada, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the first US-led invasion of Iraq, and the PLO’s march toward the Oslo Accords–and how Hamas and Islamic Jihad stepped into the resulting vacuum, picking up a Palestinian armed struggle the PLO had renounced.

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1:20.1	D. I. G. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jack up and magazine.
1:31.1	Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jack up in magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm
1:36.6	broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the first of what will be to
1:41.6	no one's surprise, a multi-part, though only a two-part epilogue,
1:47.1	to our voluminous series Thawara, an extensive investigation into 20th century Arab politics with historian Abdel Razak Tikriti.
1:57.3	Thawara is Arabic for revolution.
2:00.6	It's a word that contains historical multitudes, diverse political radicalisms and
2:06.6	revolts that have swept across Arab Blams over the past century. We completed the 16th and final episode of Thawara in 1982 as Israel
2:17.0	invaded Lebanon and laid siege to Beirut in a successful effort to expel the Palestinian Revolution from its headquarters.
2:25.0	In this first part of the epilogue, we continue onward from that moment toward the present,
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