The Arab New Left and May ’68

Transnational Entanglements at a Time of Disruption

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13085576
AutoresLaure Guirguis (0000-0001-9605-5230, Aarhus University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas87-113
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/713518
OpenAlexW3163321901
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas18

Sartre’s visit to the Middle East turned into a fiasco, and the French philosopher ultimately signed a public letter in support of Israel. A few years later, the situation had changed completely: the French Left overwhelmingly took sides with the Palestinians, and Arab militants in France were key in triggering this turnaround. This was but one consequence of the multilayered interactions between Arab and European left-wing militant landscapes during the May ’68 momentum. The Arab New Left was a constitutive part of this global moment. Yet the Arab Left and “May ’68” have long been set apart from the growing literature on the revolutionary Left during the long sixties. Following three militant paths between France and the Arab East, I decipher the reconfigurations of geographies of resistance and the processes of resignification as symbols and know-how were displaced and transformed through ever more complex itineraries

Left behind · Left-wing politics · Middle East · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · North African History and Literature