
Michael Peddycoart
Michael Peddycoart is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations whose research examines the intellectual history of Palestinian leftist groups in the second half of the twentieth century. Michael’s research has been supported by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and University of Chicago Humanities Fellowship. He has received two American Councils Critical Language Scholarships in Arabic and Persian as well as a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Michael holds a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree with honors in International Relations from Stanford University.
Journals presented by Michael Peddycoart
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an armed Marxist-Leninist Palestinian national movement, used its weekly Arabic-language organ, al-Hadaf (The Target), to demonstrate its revolutionary analytical acumen on a variety of topics, including contemporary international affairs, political theory, Zionism, and women’s liberation. However, in addition to this rich spectrum of subjects, al-Hadaf always […]