Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions: From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures

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Dina Taha (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) Hebatalla Taha (Lund University)

Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

Name: Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions
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From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures

Dina Taha (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies), Hebatalla Taha (Lund University), Andrew Delatolla (University of Leeds) , Samaa Elturkey

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English

Bristol University Press
29 January 2026

Development studies; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; History of ideas; Sociology

Series: Decolonization and Social Worlds

How do colonial legacies shape the Arab-majority region today? This groundbreaking book unpacks power, resistance and decolonial futures-from refugee aid to climate crises. A must-read for scholars and activists rethinking the region's past, present and future.

Contributions by: Dina Taha (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies), Hebatalla Taha (Lund University), Andrew Delatolla (University of Leeds), Samaa Elturkey, Dina Abdelnabi (Zagazig University)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529240542
ISBN 10: 1529240549
Series: Decolonization and Social Worlds
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 29 January 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Coloniality Elsewhere and Otherwise: Thinking the Decolonial from Arab-majority Worlds – Ali Kassem Part 1: Framing 2. From Liberation to Assimilation and Vice Versa: On Reclaiming the Fanonian Moment - Mounir Saidani 3. The State as a Killing Machine: How Colonial Exploitation, Extraction and Murder Became Embedded in the Modern State - Andrew Delatolla 4. ‘Anti-Colonial’ Environmentalism: A Critical and Intersectional Study of the Greenwashed Nakba - Ghada Sasa Part 2: Cases thinking Coloniality 5. Thinking Refugee Leadership and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment and Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi 6. Once Colonised, Forever Funded: An Examination of the Donor-beneficiary Relationship in the Field of SRHR in Egypt - Samaa Elturkey and Dina AbdelNaby 7. Trans-nationalizing Israeli Development - Hebatalla Taha 8. The Coloniality of Green Public Spaces in Beirut - Adam Cherkawi 9. Alienating Education: A Struggle for Autonomous Culture, Heritage, and Language within Modern Education Systems in Egypt - Ahmed Gad Part 3: Resistances and Toward Alternatives 10. Re-Writing History from the Margins: Histories of National and Labour Movements in Qatar - Maryam Al-Hajri 11. Theoretical Gnosis (‘Irfan-i nazari): Disrupting Developmentalism in the Face of Ecological Crises - Mohamad Baqer Harake 12. Decoloniality Concluding Commentary

Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

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