Arab Marxism and National Liberation - Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel

A landmark selection of the writing of an important Arab Marxist thinker, newly translated into English.

About the author

Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. Born in south Lebanon, he studied, taught, and wrote on Marxist philosophy in relation to colonialism and national liberation in France, Algeria and Lebanon. He was assassinated in 1987.

Hicham Safieddine is lecturer in the history of the Modern Middle East at King's College London and author of Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon. He is co-founder of Al-Akhbar English and The Legal Agenda English Edition.

Angela Giordani is an intellectual historian of the modern Arabic-speaking world. Her translations have appeared in Jadaliyya and The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda

Summary

A landmark selection of the writing of an important Arab Marxist thinker, newly translated into English.

Foreword

Features in Historical Materialism

Promotion targeting left academic journals

Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference

Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Product details

• Authors: Mahdi Amel
• Assisted by: Hicham Safieddine (Editor), Gilbert Achcar (Foreword), Achcar Gilbert (Foreword), Angela Giordani (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2021
• EAN: 9781642596038
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-603-8
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Middle Eastern history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Marxist; arab