Nathaniel George has a chapter titled, “Abu Jubran and Jabal ʿAmil Between the Palestinian and Iranian Revolutions,” in the new volume The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine, and Beyond, edited by Sune Haugbolle and Rasmus Elling (London: Oneworld Academic, 2024).
The chapter explores the history and development of the Lebanese-Palestinian resistance in south Lebanon, with a focus on the under-examined period of the late 1970s. It draws on microhistorical approaches to challenge a clear-cut declension narrative of the Lebanese National Movement-Palestine Liberation Organization (LNM-PLO) alliance by revisiting a largely repressed history of victory and contestation. It examines the trajectory of the Lebanese left primarily through a series of oral history interviews I conducted in rural south Lebanon with a longtime, influential, southern Lebanese communist. It also reflects upon on the transition between national and Islamic modes of anticolonial resistance.
Nathaniel George is Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. He was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies in academic year 2020-2021.
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