Sawt al-Thawra (Voice of the Revolution) was the weekly bulletin of the anticolonial revolutionary movement in Dhufar, Oman, in the 1970s. It was published in Aden beginning in 1972 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG), or Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr ʻUmān wa-al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī in Arabic. This essay introduces the Sawt al-Thawra teaching tool, a resource that I have created for the Revolutionary Papers project. It intends to supplement teaching and learning on the Dhufar Revolution, global history, anticolonialism and decolonization, social and political movements, and revolutionary print culture in the global 1970s… read more
Revolutionary Print Culture in the Arabian Peninsula: Introduction to the Sawt al-Thawra Teaching Tool