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Speaker: Laure Guirguis , AIAS Fellow and Associate Professor

Abstract

In what sense do the Sixties constitute a global critical juncture? And how has the Arab New Left become part of it? The growing literature on the Sixties and the Arab Left notes the formation of a transnational, though diversified revolutionary culture. Nonetheless, we still know very little about the processes of re-signification as symbols, notions, and know-how were displaced and transformed through ever more complex itineraries.   

Short bio

Laure Guirguis is a historian of the modern Arab world who works on political violence, revolution, and Arab Marxism. She has recently published Copts and the Security State. Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford UP, 2016) and edited The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s-1970s (Edinburgh UP, 2020).

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The AIAS Seminar is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellow or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, one fellow will present and discuss his/her current research and research project, closing off with a question and discussion session.

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