The Dig: Thawra Ep. 2 - Birth of Arab Nationalism
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the second episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out early 20th-century anti-colonialism: from the Iraqi, Syrian, and Palestinian Great Revolts, to the birth of Arab nationalism, Islamic resistance, Ba'athism, and communism.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com |
| 0:04.6 | and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:11.6 | One that you might like is Towers of Ivory and Steel, how Israeli |
| 0:15.9 | universities deny Palestinian freedom by Maya Wind, with an afterward by Robin DiG |
| 0:21.6 | Kelly and a foreword by Nadia Abuaj. |
| 0:25.0 | Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. |
| 0:32.0 | Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources internationally accessible, |
| 0:38.0 | Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of |
| 0:45.2 | Palestinian rights. |
| 0:47.3 | Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories, all service Israeli occupation and |
| 0:55.6 | apartheid while universities violate Palestinians right to education, stifle |
| 1:01.2 | critical scholarship, and violently repressed student descent. |
| 1:05.0 | Towers of ivory and steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia's ongoing and active complicity in Israel's settler colonial project. |
| 1:17.0 | Out now from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:37.0 | This is the second episode of Tharwa, The Diggs new series on 20th century Arab politics with historian Abdel Razak Tukriti. |
| 1:46.0 | Tharwa is Arabic for revolution. |
| 1:49.4 | It's a word that contains historical multitudes. |
| 1:52.4 | Diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across |
| 1:56.2 | Arab lands over the past century. Today's episode is about the rise of anti-colonial politics |
| 2:03.0 | across the Arab Middle East, the Ma Shrick |
| 2:06.0 | during the mandate period of British and French colonial rule |
| 2:10.0 | and Zionist settler colonization of Palestine. As mass revolts swept Iraq, Syria, and Palestine |
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