Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Lecturer in International History. This talk was given on 17th March 2014. He received his DPhil from St Antony’s College, Oxford and was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His doctoral dissertation won the MESA Malcolm Kerr Award and the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (2013) and is currently co-authoring a book with Karma Nabulsi on the history of the Palestinian revolution. His opinion pieces on contemporary Arab affairs have appeared in a range of English and Arabic publications including The Guardian, Aljazeera English, Al-Ahram Weekly, and al-Quds al-Arabi. Inspiration & Co interview: https://soundcloud.com/inspirationandco/abdel-razzaq-takriti-interview