How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson to talk about her new book How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, about the historic Syrian-Arab Congress of 1920. Professor 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	You remember Den Van Boo?
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0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare. But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:23.6	Hello, and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.9	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:43.7	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
0:48.1	Hello, Adnan. How are you today?
0:50.1	I'm great, Henry.
0:51.9	And Brett O'Shea, hosts of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
0:56.8	Hello, Brett. How are you?
0:58.2	I'm doing great. We got another exciting one today.
1:00.8	Yes, we do. Today, our guest is going to be Elizabeth F. Thompson, the Muhammad S. F.
1:06.7	Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace and Professor of History at American University.
1:12.5	Professor Thompson is an expert of social movements and liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East. She's the author of
1:17.5	colonial citizens, Republican rights, paternal privilege and gender in French Syria and Lebanon from
1:23.2	Columbia books. Justice interrupted the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle
1:28.4	East from Harvard Press, and her latest work, which is going to be the topic of today's
1:32.9	episode, which is how the West stole democracy from the Arabs, the Syrian Arab Congress of
1:39.4	1920, and the destruction of its historic liberal Islamic alliance.
1:46.9	It's out this year from Atlantic Monthly Press.
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