This lecture is concerned with analyzing anti-colonial struggle in the Arab world through the frameworks of refusal and structured impossibility.

Loay Alarab is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. His research interests center on political theory, postcolonial politics, and Arab political thought. Specifically, Loay is interested in intellectual accounts of and theories from non-normative political actors in the Middle East. In his work, he tries to articulate accounts of refusal, self-determination, and agency based on written, audiovisual, and cultural materials of these political actors. Loay is the coordinator of U-M's Political Theory Workshop for 2025-2026.

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