This seminar will explore the political thought of Arab diasporic intellectuals in the US from the First World War to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, especially anticolonial/anti-imperialist thought, writings on race, attempts to influence and critique US foreign policy, and visions of Arab modernity, subjectivity, and liberation.

Yasmin Dualeh will be presenting “Diaspora, Religion & Identity: Arab diasporic intellectuals in the US and their utopian thought and visions of modernity in the early 20th century"

In-person at St Antony’s

Yasmin Dualeh is a Ph.D. student in U.S. history at the University of Cambridge

Her dissertation explores the political thought of Arab diasporic intellectuals in the US from the First World War to 1967 Arab-Israeli War. She is primarily interested in their anticolonial/anti-imperialist thought,  writings on race, attempts to influence and critique US foreign policy, and finally their visions of Arab modernity, subjectivity, and liberation.