#149 — Marie Kawthar Daouda — They Told Her She Was A Victim Of The West. She Became Its Greatest Defender.

Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a French-Moroccan Oxford scholar wrote a love letter to British civilisation MacIntyre and the question of story — what happens when a civilisation loses its narrative The French Revolution as spiritual catastrophe and its influence on the modern university Victimhood as cultural capital and what it does to the people it claims to liberate The noble savage myth — Rousseau, permanent infancy, and the worst form of moral racism Islamic aniconism and the unique curiosity of the European eye Tolkien, Lewis, and the civilisational importance of loving home The Oxford students of 1917 — and what this generation owes them Find Marie's work:  Substack Buy 'Not Your Victim' Related episodes: Nathan Pinkoski — https://tinyurl.com/bde3s72m Bijan Omrani — https://tinyurl.com/yxyu6nkz Pierre d'Alancaisez — https://tinyurl.com/yc27jp65 Watch The Call of England: https://youtu.be/muBQWIP6ZQQ Register for the Albion Institute: albioninstitute.org Thinking Class is a long-form interview podcast on the cultural, historical and civilisational forces shaping England, Britain, the Anglosphere and the wider West.  Hosted by John Gillam.  ▶ YouTube ✍ Substack 🎧 Spotify 🍎 Apple 🐦 X New episodes every Thursday at 3pm.