BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2769@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260403T123638 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260422T161500 SUMMARY:Salon Discussion with Idriss Jebari (Trinity College Dublin): “Le aping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global 1960s and 1970s” DESCRIPTION:Dr Idriss Jebari will present his research on the intellectual debates that shaped North Africa from the early 1960s to the early 1980s\, recently published in his book Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in th e Global 1960s and 1970s. Examining exchanges across Algeria\, Morocco and Tunisia\, the book traces how scholars\, leaders and thinkers confronted colonial legacies\, reconsidered notions of progress and tradition\, and a rticulated new social and political visions under authoritarian conditions in the decades following independence. Jebari’s insightful research rai ses important questions about the role and meaning of global history and t he voices of intellectual peripheries from the Global South on the world s tage.\\r\\nIdriss Jebari is a Lecturer in Middle East Studies at Trinity C ollege Dublin. He is a historian of Arab thought and the author of Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global 1960s and 1970s (Cambridge Uni versity Press\, 2026). After completing his doctorate on the history of th e production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford\, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the American Uni versity of Beirut (Lebanon)\, and at Bowdoin College in Maine (USA). His r esearch has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, History of the Present\, and Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East.  X-ALT-DESC:

Dr Idriss Jebari will present his research on the intellectua l debates that shaped North Africa from the early 1960s to the early 1980s \, recently published in his book Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global 1960s and 19 70s. Examining exchanges across Algeria\, Morocco and Tunisia\, th e book traces how scholars\, leaders and thinkers confronted colonial lega cies\, reconsidered notions of progress and tradition\, and articulated ne w social and political visions under authoritarian conditions in the decad es following independence. Jebari’s insightful research raises important questions about the role and meaning of global history and the voices of intellectual peripheries from the Global South on the world stage.

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Idriss Jebari is a Lecturer in Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is a historian of Arab thought and the author of Leaping Decolonization: No rth Africa in the Global 1960s and 1970s (Cambridge University Press\, 2026). After completing his doctorate on the history of the production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford\, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the American University of Beir ut (Lebanon)\, and at Bowdoin College in Maine (USA). His research has app eared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, History of the Present\, and Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. \;

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