Dig: Thawra Ep. 12 - Origins of Saudi Reaction
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
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Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the TWELFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment tells the story of Saudi Arabia, a country whose reactionary, US-aligned trajectory was throughout the 1950s and 60s challenged by labor strikes, dissident currents, rebellious princes, and an anticolonial oil minister. But Saudi royal conservatism asserted itself and a friendship with Nasser’s Egypt turned into conflict. Ultimately both countries got drawn into North Yemen’s civil war, which sapped Egypt’s military strength ahead of the 1967 war with Israel. Plus: radical politics against British colonial power in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial States.
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| 1:24.0 | This is the 12th episode of Thawara, |
| 1:26.6 | the Diggs Rolling Series on 20th century Arab politics, |
| 1:30.2 | with historian Abdel Rizaktakriti. |
| 1:32.8 | Thawara is Arabic 4 revolution. |
| 1:36.0 | It's a word that contains historical multitudes. |
| 1:40.0 | Diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arab lands over the past century. |
| 1:46.0 | We've spent recent episodes laying out the tumultuous revolutionary processes in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. |
| 1:52.0 | A brief recapitulation. processes in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. |
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