Outputs (12)

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

The Lebanese Front of the War for Palestine (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). The Lebanese Front of the War for Palestine. Cultural Anthropology - Hot Spots,

Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century (2025)
Journal Article
Welchman, L., & Sharafeldin, M. Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century. Manuscript submitted for publication

This article reviews and analyses the fast-moving developments in Muslim Personal Status Law reform in the Arab region since the beginning of the 21st Century in light of extreme political contingencies occasioned inter alia by wars (often directly i... Read More about Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century.

Abu Jubran and Jabal ʿAmil Between the Palestinian and Iranian Revolutions (2024)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2024). Abu Jubran and Jabal ʿAmil Between the Palestinian and Iranian Revolutions. In R. C. Elling, & S. Haugbolle (Eds.), The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine, and Beyond (145-169). Oneworld Academic

Review of 'The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq', by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. (2023)
Journal Article
George, N. (in press). Review of 'The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq', by Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. H-Net Reviews: H-Diplo Roundtable Review, 14(11), 5-9

“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.

Review of: Diana Allan (ed.) 'Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine' (2022)
Journal Article
Regan, B. (2022). Review of: Diana Allan (ed.) 'Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine'. Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 21(1), 116-117. https://doi.org/10.3366/hlps.2022.0286

Review of 'Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation,' by Fadi A. Bardawil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 (2021)
Journal Article
George, N. (2021). Review of 'Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation,' by Fadi A. Bardawil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Arab studies journal, 29(1), 118-123

Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental (2020)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2020). Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s (127-147). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454261-011

It is hard to imagine language more alarming to European and American imperialists and their allies than the terms Mehdi Ben Barka used to describe the conference he was organising. In May 1965, the Afro-Asian People‘s Solidarity Organisation elected... Read More about Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental.

جينيولوجيا مسألة تقسيم فلسطين والمنطق الذي احتكمت إليه [The Genealogy and Logic of the Palestine Partition] (2017)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2017). جينيولوجيا مسألة تقسيم فلسطين والمنطق الذي احتكمت إليه [The Genealogy and Logic of the Palestine Partition]. Israeli Affairs = Qaḍāyā isrāʾīliyyaẗ قضايا إسرائيلية, 9-18

Middle East (2016)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2016). Middle East. In E. J. Blum (Ed.), America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History (678-682). Charles Scribner’s Sons

رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء (2016)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2016). رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء. Maǧallaẗ al-dirāsāt al-filasṭīniyyaẗ, 27(105),

يعالج يائير فالاخ في مقالته هذه، مسألة رايات موسم النبي موسى واختفائها، كجزء من دراسة للمشهد النصِّيّ العربي والعبري في القدس خلال الفترة 1858 1948 ، والاعتبارات التي دفعت سلطات الانتداب البريطاني إلى صناعة المشهد الفلسطيني عبر الكتابة والنصوص، كآلية... Read More about رايات موسم النبي موسى: سجل اختفاء.