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Entanglement, Global History, and the Arab Left

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2019

Sune Haugbolle*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark; e-mail: suneha@ruc.dk

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NOTES

1 See, e.g., Holt, Elizabeth M., “‘Bread or Freedom’: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962–67),” Journal of Arabic Literature 44 (2013): 83102CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, “Connected Histories: Notes Towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia,” Modern Asian Studies 31 (1997): 735–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Lepenies, Wolf, ed., Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals: Centers and Peripheries in a Changing World (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2003)Google Scholar; Werner, Michael and Zimmermann, Bénédict, eds., De la comparaison à l'histoire croisée (Paris: Seuil, 2004)Google Scholar.

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6 See special issue of the online journal Muftah, “Syria and the Left,” 5 November 2016, accessed 29 December 2018, https://muftah.org/special-collection-syria-left/.

7 I use problem space in the sense promoted by postcolonial theorist David Scott as the complex of statements, propositions, resolutions and arguments offered in answer to largely implicit questions in a particular time and space. “David Scott by Stuart Hall,” conversation in BOMB magazine 90, 5 January 2005, accessed 29 December 2018.

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10 For an overview of recent scholarship on the Arab Left, see Hagbolle, Sune and Sing, Manfred, “New Approaches to Arab Left Histories,” Arab Studies Journal 24 (2016): 9097Google Scholar.

11 See Miriyam Aouragh's contribution to this roundtable.

12 Meriggi, Marco, “Global History: Structures, Strategies, Open Problems,” Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science 52 (2018): 3544Google Scholar.

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