The Dhofar Rebellion Anonymous 29-05-24 08:02:03 No. 22224
What decent books are there about the Dhofar War, and southern Arabian (Yemeni & Omani) socialist experiments? All I can find are articles.
Glownonymous 29-05-24 11:44:28 No. 22225
Socialism in Arab countries was always a branding thing. A lot of Arab socialists were borderline fascists especially Nasserists and Ba'athists. At one time, the Shah of Iran portrayed himself as a socialist implementing a revolution in his country. There was always a fringe within right wing Arabist movements that had an interest in Marxism and that's how you get groups like the PFLP which split off right wing Arabist groups to pursue a Marxist line but kept ethnonationalist Arabist ideals and pro-Nasser or pro-Syria/Iraq stance and anti-monarchist bent. Some of the Omani groups were the same and effectively became proxies of regional powers.
Anonymous 29-05-24 12:30:42 No. 22226
>>22225 post a book rec on this tho, I'm not OP but I've had exactly the same interest ever since reading Red Star Over Iraq by Johann Franzen.
Anonymous 30-05-24 00:21:47 No. 22230
>>22225 That's cool except South Yemen was actually socialist not just nominally and it clashed with Arab nationalists as well.