How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson [Remastered]

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In this remastered episode of Guerrilla History (originally released in January, 2021), we were joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920.

Elizabeth Thompson is the Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History at American University. Her book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press, and is available here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/how-the-west-stole-democracy-from-the-arabs/

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0:00.0	Dear guerrilla history listeners, this is co-host Henry.
0:04.7	I'm taking this opportunity to inform you about what the plan is for this episode and for next week.
0:11.6	We have been trying for the last few days to get an episode together in order to release at today's regularly scheduled episode release date
0:19.4	that would discuss the history and the present
0:22.1	of occupied Palestine. Unfortunately, due to some scheduling difficulties that we've been having
0:28.6	trying to connect with some of our Palestinian comrades in order to discuss this history,
0:34.4	we haven't been able to connect with them in time to release an episode
0:38.7	this week on the topic. We will do whatever we can to have that episode ready for you for
0:44.4	next week's release. We just want to make sure that you are aware that we are not avoiding
0:50.5	discussions of the settler occupation of Palestine and the genocidal actions of the
0:56.3	settler colonial regime of Israel. It's just simply scheduling issues that have prevented us from
1:02.0	having an episode ready for this week's release. We hope that you understand this, and that you'll
1:07.9	enjoy and learn from the episode that we're releasing today, which is a remastered
1:12.0	version of one of our very first episodes, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs.
1:17.7	This episode is related, although it is more historic in nature, than we were hoping to have for
1:24.0	this week's episode. We do have several other episodes within our feed that you can
1:29.3	check out if you would like more of the historical grounding for what is going on within
1:34.7	occupied Palestine right now. This includes episodes like the One Kingdom Solution, which is an
1:41.1	intelligence briefing that we did about a paper that Adnan Hussein and Margaret
1:45.0	Papano had co-written looking at cross-confessional marriages within historic Palestine.
1:52.8	We also have a cross-release from our sister show, Gorilla Radio, titled How to Shut Down an Arms
1:59.5	factory with the founders of Palestine Action.
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