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This is the third episode of Thawora,

the digs new series on 20th century Arab politics

with historian Abdel Razaktakriti.

Thawara is Arabic 4 revolution.

It's a word that contains historical multitudes,

diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arab lands

over the last century. Today's episode with Abdel Rizak,

Abid for short, is about the post-colonial Arab state system that had emerged in the Middle East

by the mid-20th century. Once again, a huge asterisk next to post-colonial because obviously Palestine was shattered by Zionist settler

colonialism in 1948. Britain continued to exercise enormous imperial power across the Arabian Peninsula, up through Egypt, and over to Jordan and Iraq.

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