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Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo (2022)
Book Chapter
Abou-El-Fadl, R. (2022). Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo. In C. Stolte, & S. L. Lewis (Eds.), The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (167-190). Leiden University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789400604346-010

This chapter highlights Egyptian contributions to the history of Afro-Asian solidarity, which remain understudied in scholarship on twentieth-century decolonisation, and on Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt. It argues that Egyptian activists and... Read More about Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo.

A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS (2022)
Book Chapter
Ramgotra, M., & Omar, A. (2022). A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS. In E. Walton, & R. Osman (Eds.), Pedagogical Responsiveness in Complex Contexts: Issues of Transformation, Inclusion and Equity (165-180). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12718-2

This chapter explores the notion of pedagogical responsiveness in two complex, politically intense, university teaching contexts: the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits), South Africa, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (... Read More about A Comparative Account of Decolonising Political Theory in the Global South and North: The Case of Wits and SOAS.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
Journal Article
George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary (2022)
Journal Article
Albert, M. (2023). Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary. Globalizations, 20(4), 533-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2117501

There is an ongoing debate among climate activists and scholars on the merits of ‘climate emergency’ frames, which mirrors debates in critical security studies on the benefits and risks of ‘securitization’. Climate emergency advocates demonstrate tha... Read More about Climate emergency and securitization politics: towards a climate politics of the extraordinary.