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On the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolutions, Yassin Al Haj Saleh discusses rigid revolutionary traditions, characterizes the Arab revolutionary tradition as soft and post-communist, and calls for scrutinizing the notion of the end of revolutions.
A tradition is unchanging rules that (...)
Over the past couple of years, a wave of revolutionary uprisings has swept over the region commonly referred to as the Middle East and North Africa. Protesters in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran have taken to the streets to demand the overthrow of their respective authoritarian regimes. (...)
Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon engulfed the whole country, before spreading across the entire Arabic-speaking region, in what has been known since 2011 as the ‘Arab Spring’.
The (...)
“Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” (the people want to overthrow the regime) was the central slogan of the political movement known as the “Arab Spring” which, beginning in late 2010 in Tunisia, spread to Egypt and eventually to a whole string of countries in North Africa and West Asia. Besides these (...)
As inspiring as the Arab Spring uprisings of the early 2010s were, they failed to democratize the Middle East. The primary cause had little to do with the region’s cultural or religious characteristics and everything to do with the profound weakening of the Middle East’s working-class power under (...)
It must have been such a fraught moment for everyone who witnessed it: the first attack on the empire since Pearl Harbor in 1941. The invincible empire and its architectural megalith signifying everything advanced capitalism has achieved: an unprecedented accumulation of resources, impressive (...)
As the world confronts a global economic crisis exacerbated by the current pandemic, what lessons can the U.S. left learn from those outside our borders?
Gilbert Achcar is a professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS University of London. His most recent books are (...)
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East By Adam Hanieh Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. 2018, 269 pages + references and index, $32.99 paper.
ADAM HANIEH HAS produced a compelling and well-documented (...)
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 (...)
June 1967, an Endless Six-Day War · The defeat of the Arab armies in June 1967 did not immediately lead to the rise of the Islamist movements. During a brief period, the left filled the political void. In November, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) came into existence, led (...)
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 (...)
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