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Laure Guirguis
Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies
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ABOUT
Last paper “Vietnam and the Rise of a Radical Left in Lebanon, 1962-1976,” Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 14, 2 (2018): 225-244. Books L. Guirguis (ed),The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s – 1970s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) L. Guirguis, Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2016). Revised edition of a work originally published in French as: Les Coptes d’Égypte… (Paris: Karthala, 2012). L. Guirguis, Égypte: révolution et contre-révolution [Egypt: Revolution and Counter-Revolution] (Montreal: Laval University Press, 2014).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Transnationalism
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Modernization
World History
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Palestine
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
State And Community
Revolution
Left-wing Trends In The Arab World And The Tri-con
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Chinese (advanced)
French (native)
English (advanced)
Latin (elementary)
German (elementary)
Italian (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Political science | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
MPhil | 2003 | Philosophy | Paris X Nanterre
MA | 2000 | Chinese language and civilization | INALCO
Abstracts
Archives of past defeats and imagined futures: from left-wing melancholy to new paths in resistance, historiography and political criticism?