Lessons from Counterinsurgency from Malaya to Palestine with Fadiah Nadwa Fikri

Описание: In this episode Fadiah Nadwa Fikri will join us to talk about lessons from British Imperialism in Malaya, with an emphasis on the period the British Empire described as the "Malaya Emergency." We'll center our discussion around Fadiah's recent article for Vox Ummah, "White Supremacy And Anti-Communism As Counter-Insurgency: Lessons From British Imperialism In Malaya" (Vox Ummah): https://voxummah.com/2025/11/white-su...

The piece examines the counterrevolutionary strategies and tactics used against the Malayan people

Fadiah Nadwa Fikri is a lawyer and scholar of Southeast Asian Studies. Her work examines the intellectual history of decolonisation, Malay radical politics, and the British racialising project, with a focus on Malaya and Singapore.

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