The Middle East and North Africa continues to reverberate from the 2011 Arab Spring protests that rocked the region eight years ago. The protests, which have also been referred to as uprisings, revolutions and revolts, led to the overthrow of lifelong dictators in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. (...)
On why the rise of fundamentalism in Muslim-majority countries owes much to the failings of the secular left.
Recent decades have seen a “return of the religious,” as fundamentalist creeds have become an increasingly prominent element of the geopolitical landscape. Not only has the worldwide (...)
We the Alliance of Middle East Socialists support the ongoing uprising which erupted across Sudan starting December 19th, 2018. The protests were set off by the lifting of subsidies on bread, wheat, and electricity as well as spiking inflation. The United Nations Development Program has (...)
Interview from Jadaliya website with Adam Hanieh about his latest book “Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East” (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Adam Hanieh (AH): I (...)
President Donald Trump’s decision in January to suspend US$65 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) sparked serious concern among Palestinians and their supporters over how this would affect the welfare of refugees.
The amount (...)
We send our heartfelt condolences and solidarity to the family and friends of Mehmet Aksoy, killed on Tuesday 26 September in an attack by ISIS on the camp near Raqqa where he was working as a press officer for the YPG.
We first met Mehmet in the campaign to defend Kobani in 2014 and then (...)
As part of its series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left Project’s Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Ed Lewis: You see the six states of the (...)
Over the last six months, the Palestinian economy has been radically transformed under a new plan drawn up by the Palestinian Authority (PA) called the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan (PRDP). Developed in close collaboration with institutions such as the World Bank and the British (...)
The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, “shock and awe” was the right description.
The docile, supine, unregenerative, cringing Arabs of (...)
GILBERT ACHCAR, WHO grew up in Lebanon, is professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and author most recently of The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, which is reviewed elsewhere in this (...)
Statement from organisations present at the New Anti Capitalist Party (NPA, France) Congress (12 February 2011). [Note: some missing signatures have been added and more may still be] The overthrow of Ben Ali and Mubarak change the political situation not only in the Maghreb but on the (...)
We are reproducing here expressions of international solidarity toward the struggles of the Egyptian, Tunisian people (and other countries of this part of the world) we have received. We shall add new items once we receivez them. Statements which are not in English are not reproduced here. (...)
Lawrence Davidson says, “Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid. When Israel assigns rights according to religion they call it the only democracy in the Middle East.”
Lawrence Davidson is a professor at West Chester University (...)
I can say without hesitation that the Tunisian and Egyptian people are writing the first pages of the revolutions of the 21st century. They are sending shock waves throughout the Arab world, from Algiers to Ramallah, from Amman to Sana’a in Yemen. These revolutions are also results, from the (...)
Does Ms. Dickinson really believe that Mohammad Bouazizi, the youth whose self-immolation ignited Tunisian intifada, read WikiLeaks before he set himself on fire on December 17? And does she really think Tunisians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudis and rest of the Arabs would need some leaked (...)
The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism.
What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted (...)
The protesters in Tunisia and Egypt are calling for deep elemental changes in their societies.
Is this how empires end, with people flooding the streets, demanding the resignation of their leaders and forcing local dictators out? Maybe not entirely, but the breadth and depth of the spreading (...)
Statement by the Bureau of the Fourth International Fourth International.
“The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events. In ordinary times the state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself above the nation, and history is (...)
January 27, 2011 — The revolt spreading from Tunisia to Algeria, Egypt, Yemen and beyond inspires both hope and fear. Hope, because so many tens of millions of people are taking to the streets at the risk of beating, torture and death to liberate themselves and their country. But also fear, (...)
The political upheaval which toppled Ben Ali’s regime in the most spectacular way is undoubtedly a historic moment. While acknowledging the Tunisians’ agency in bringing about this change it will not be an overstatement to say that Ben Ali’s regime would be the first Arab authoritarian regime to (...)
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