Event overview
A conversation with Hicham聽Safieddine聽and Angela Giordani on translating the work of Arab Marxist Mahdi Amel.
Arab Marxist Mahdi Amel (1936-1987) applied class analysis during the era of national liberation to聽themes like sectarianism, political Islam, orientalism, culture and revolution, and the relationship of cultural heritage to modernity.聽
His anti-colonial framing of capitalism in a colonial context sought to produce a new Marxist methodology. His work, which has been translated to English for the first time, challenges contemporary readings of leftist histories that are postmodern, liberal or Eurocentric. In this session we will discuss the volume聽Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel聽with its editor and translator and explore the relation of Amel鈥檚 thinking and writing to broader trends in Arab Marxism and critical theory.
Hicham聽Safieddine聽is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the political economy of finance and the intellectual history of modern Arab and Islamic thought. He is author of聽Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon聽(Stanford University Press, 2019) and editor of聽Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel聽; Trans. Angela Giordani聽(Brill, 2021).
Angela Giordani聽is a historian of the modern Arab world with diverse interests in Islamic and global intellectual history. She holds a PhD in History (Columbia 2021) and is completing a book manuscript titled聽Scions of Ibn Sina: Arab Humanists and Islamic聽Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.聽Currently, she is teaching modern Middle Eastern history at Smith College.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 18 Jan 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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