Center for Near Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Bunche Hall Meeting Room - 10383
"The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914"
See below for additional information.
Admission
Free and open to the public
Contact
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
(310) 825-1181
cnes@international.ucla.edu
Website
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events
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In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, a wide variety of radical leftist ideas began circulating among segments of the populations of Eastern Mediterranean cities, especially in Beirut, Cairo and Alexandria, then among the most culturally and politically important cities of the Arab Ottoman world. These ideas, which were selective adaptations of socialist and anarchist principles, included specific calls for social justice, workers’ rights, mass secular education, and anticlericalism, and more broadly a general challenge to the existing social and political order at home and abroad. Those who embraced such ideas expressed them in articles, pamphlets, plays, and popular poetry (in Arabic, but also in Italian, Ottoman Turkish and Greek), in literary salons, and theatres, and during strikes and demonstrations, disseminating radical thought through educational, cultural, and popular institutions. Radicals formed networks that were connected, informationally, politically, and organizationally, to international and internationalist movements and organizations that sought to promote leftist ideas and implement radical projects in various corners of the world.
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