The CIA and American Democracy

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Defending the French Revolution during World War II: Raif Khoury and the Intellectual Challenge of Nazism in the Levant

“…On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, in his contribution to the edition, Khoury explicitly called for the guiding role of the revolutionary ideals: despite its ambivalent politics in the colonies, in the light of the threats of Fascist dictatorships, the French Republic was an essential step forward towards human liberation. 26 Such an idea of extending freedom and civil liberties through permanent struggles and revolutions had already been expressed by Khoury in the mid-1930s. In his historical study Human Rights.…”