This paper places Radwa Ashour's 2008 novel, "Farag," in dialogue with recent scholarship on "global" 1968. The paper argues that Ashour’s novel performs literary enactments of the very theoretical propositions undergirding the 2018 "Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties'" vision of the global—which itself builds upon and complicates previous formulations of the global in "Global South Studies" and Spivak’s "Death of a Discipline." Through the novel’s main character, Nada—the daughter of a French anarchist and Egyptian Nasirist—the text seamlessly integrates the Egyptian and French experiences of 1968 from a position of “decentered interlocality,” which denies area studies its categories through the evocation of a deterritorialized South. Playing off the metaphors we expect from accounts of 1968—coming of age tales of political awakening and teen-aged rebellion—Nada’s pivotal encounter with a French student demonstrator on a visit to post-uprising France alludes to Spivak’s literary search for collectivities “to come.” Yet, rather than fetishize the French example, "Farag" actively works to decenter France in the global narrative of 1968 and thwarts the uncritical mapping of the French model onto Nada’s experience. Through a close reading of her parents’ divorce, Nada’s subsequent travels to Paris, and her break with her father’s Nasirist example, I will examine the burgeoning collectivities Ashour places at the nexus of student struggles in 1968 Egypt and France. Moving into a reading of Nada’s reflections on Foucault following her imprisonment in Egypt, I will elaborate Ashour’s critique of facile, Eurocentric modes of comparison. Finally, turning to a letter written by Nada’s mother from the grave and the decline of Egypt’s 1970s student movement in the novel, I will unpack Ashour’s elaboration of a deterritorialized South spanning from the countryside of France to the streets of Cairo, Baghdad, and beyond.