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This conference aims at shedding light on the transnational dynamics in which Arab leftwing trends have been embedded, especially during the 1960-70s, the glorious period of leftwing revolutionary movements throughout the world, in one word: the Tri-Continent moment.The radical left that emerged after 1967 mainly took a critical stance towards the USSR, the Arab communist parties, and the Arab regimes, which have proved unable or unwilling to take the bull by the horns. But how did leftwing syntax and revolutionary imaginaires become a driving force throughout the world? And how have they opened the path to revolutionary romance and revolutionary violence? Strangely enough, the sparse scholarship devoted to the Arab left in the 1960-70s has long remained restricted within a national framework. But the national scale of analysis does not allow one to take into account the revolutionary passions involved, which were shaped by a transnational interpretative framework inspired by Marxism and embedded within the wider context of the struggles for decolonization and the Cold War.Thus, this Conference welcomes communications that shed light on circulations and transnational networks, at the regional and global scales, as well as on ideas, emotions, practices, and models diffusion and transformation. It also welcomes studies on the impact of the Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, and Algerian models on Arab revolutionary thought, practices, and strategies, especially on three pivotal local revolutionary struggles, namely that of Palestine, Yemen, and the Dhufar. Finally, this approach also invites us to think about the impact of colonization and decolonization on the “center.” The Conference would therefore like to integrate one or two studies on the interplay between European-North American and Arab leftwing revolutionary trends or, at least, organize a discussion on this issue.Abstracts: 300 wordsDeadline: June the 26thContact: arableftsproject@gmail.com and Guirguis.laure@gmail.comThe International Conference will be held the 12th and the 13th December 2016 at the Orient-Institut, in Beirut.