This paper investigates Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1966 visit to an Egyptian village, Kamshish to articulate how localities and bodies in the global South experienced global solidarity. I offer an analysis that links feminist and Queer theories of embodiment to histories of decolonization. The global Third World movement: a push for solidarity between third world countries and intellectuals, was supported by the International Left. As a site for expressions of global solidarity, Kamshish witnessed visits from Che Guevara and Simone de Beauvoir in addition to Sartre. While previous literature focus on intellectual North-South links, I describe how global connections do not just happen ‘out there’ in empty space between nation-states, but manifest through the local and the body. In doing so, I decenter the French left and western epistemology, and focus on knowledge and experiences coming from the global South. I contend that the Egyptian nation-state and mainstream intellectuals were not the only interlocutors to Sartre and Beauvoir’s bid to global solidarity since named and unnamed peasants and women changed the course of their ‘official’ visit. By looking at Kamshish as opposed to the entire nation-state, I unearth the historical roles of peasants and women in shaping decolonization; roles marginalized by both national and colonial discourses. I show how three bodies of Kamshish were entangled in global politics. A dead body murdered by feudal lords, the protesting body of his wife, and the chanting body of a peasant woman. Looking at Sartre’ visit to Kamshish contributes to our understanding of the postcolonial experience of global solidarity by detailing how three bodies in the village related to international rural politics, international left circles, and international feminism. I cast the body as a medium for expressing new modes of transnational dissent. Further, I reconfigure decolonization as an embodied relationship to land and not just a political and diplomatic act of its liberation.