4 ChangeA Poem by Ahmad Yamani, Egyptian poet.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Translated by Robin Moger. My sister screamed in the night Take me to my brother’s house And there she screamed that same night No no! Take me back…
Egyptian Surrealist art at the Tate Liverpool, UK
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Marina Warner. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, no 5, March 8, 2018. Art et Liberté was a movement that came into being in 1938 in…
New book reveals Israel’s covert operations, including nearly 2,700 assassinations
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Posted MR Online Feb 13, 2018. Originally published: teleSUR (January 28, 2018). | The book’s title is derived from the ancient Jewish Talmud admonition, “If someone comes to…
On the Concatenation in the Arab World: Editorial in New Left Review
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Perry Anderson Published in New Left Review March-April 2011 The Arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events: a concatenation of political upheavals, one…
Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy
Friday, November 3, 2017
Dalia Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi. Book review: Posted on Jadalyya on October 20, 2017. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Daanish Faruqi (DF): As preface, it’s…
Revolution without revolutionaries: Asef Bayat
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Asef Bayat Posted by Stanford University Press: excepts from chapter one Revolutions of Wrong Times ……… Novel Revolutions? Why did the revolutions of 2011 turn out to be…
Is Egypt’s water security in danger?
Monday, July 17, 2017
Ahmed Mahdi. This article was first posted on Al Ahram weekly. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi attended a summit of the heads of state of the Nile Basin countries…
Arab Spring after six years: “I see the potential for something good.” – interview with Asef Bayat
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Sonja Zekri. Sociologist Asef Bayat talks to journalist Sonja Zekri about his views on the Arab spring and his concept of post-Islamism. First published on Koepfe und Ideen…
Proving paternity: A prolonged struggle for thousands of Egyptian mothers
Monday, June 5, 2017
Mai Shams El-Din, Mada. For mothers who choose to file paternity lawsuits, proceedings can take years. “I wrote this post just to say that I will not give…
Elections in Iran: Rouhani’s victory is good news for Iran, but bad news for Trump and his Sunni allies
Monday, May 22, 2017
Robert Fisk, The Independent. So it’s a good win for the Iranian regime – and its enormous population of young people – and a bad win for Trump’s…
The Genealogy of Daesh-ISIS
Monday, April 10, 2017
Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Al-Jumhurya. Even though the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or Da’esh) emerged in Syria in 2013, its structure can be traced back to…
1,736 social, economic and labor protests across Egypt in 2016: ECESR
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Mada Masr. This report first appeared in Mada Masr on December 26, 2016 According to a report published by the independent Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) on…
Egyptian State responds to labor protests with heightened repression
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Jano Charbel, Mada Masr. Recent nationwide labor protests have found themselves confronted by extraordinary measures of repression as the country continues to weather economic struggles, austerity measures and…
Mahalla textile workers call off strike as strike leaders face disciplinary hearings
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Mada Masr, Al Arabiya. Over 2,000 workers from the state-owned Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla called off their partial strike on Wednesday. Five of the strike…
IFFCO workers launch boycott campaign to protest sackings, arrests and sit-in dispersal
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Mada Masr, Al Arabiya. Workers at the International Foodstuffs Co (IFFCO) in Suez have launched a campaign calling for a boycott of the company’s products after 27 workers…
The Arab ruling classes in the 1970s – Mohammad Ja’far
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Mohammad Ja’far, Libcom.org. Text of a talk by Mohammed Ja’far on the development of the Arab ruling classes during the 1960s and 1970s, their integration into the world…
Prominent human rights activists in Egypt targeted by sophisticated hacking attacks
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Sharif Abdel Kouddoust, The Intercept. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS and individual activists in Egypt have been targeted by a large and sophisticated phishing campaign, according to a joint investigation…
The Sisi coup enters its fourth year
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Sameh Naguib, Revolutionary Socialists. July 2016 marks the beginning of the fourth year of the 3 July coup. The events of the last three years have shown, beyond…
Research: No man’s land in Egypt
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Aya Nader, Al Monitor. An Egyptian was conducting a study on sewage systems back during the times of Khedivial Cairo (1867-1914). He had to apply for a permit…
Five years after the Arab uprisings: An interview with Asef Bayat
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Özgür Gökmen, Jadaliyya. Özgür Gökmen (ÖG): In Life as Politics you refer to the dangers of foreign intervention more than once. Expectations were not high but there was…
ISDS: A court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will
Friday, September 9, 2016
Chris Hamby, BuzzFeed. Say a nation tries to prosecute a corrupt CEO or ban dangerous pollution. Imagine that a company could turn to this super court and sue…
From revolution to reaction in Egypt
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Sameh Naguib, Open Democracy. Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster, but the current conditions in Egypt do not match the jubilation that erupted onto the streets…
The development of capitalism in Egypt
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Patrick Clawson, Libcom. An article which first came out in 2014 which remains of interest to anyone interested in fundamentally changing the Middle East. Major work by Patrick…
Turkey 2016: Echoes of July 2013, Egypt
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Omar Kassam, Counterpunch. The London Guardian opinion pages spin the story that after 22 years and 7 successes in popular elections in a rapidly growing and pluralist Turkey,…
Egypt’s workers in revolt
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Christine Thomas Socialist World Book Review: The Egyptians: a radical story • By Jack Shenker On 3 February the mutilated body of Italian student Giulio Regeni was found…
A letter in my purse: a poem
Friday, May 20, 2016
Shaimaa El-Sabbagh translated by Maged Zaher Arablit Shaimaa El-Sabbagh, poet and Socialist Popular Alliance Partya ctivist who was shot dead at a rally in Tahrir Square I am not…
Egypt running on empty
Friday, March 18, 2016
Joshua Stacher MERIP An authoritarian regime may be unpopular, even loathed, but at least it has rules. The rules may bear little resemblance to the law, but relations…