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“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.

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.

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