Middle East 4 ChangeNot War Alone
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Tom Stevenson on the global food crisis Egypt’s Ministry of Supply is headed by Ali Moselhi, a former Mubarak crony whose career was resurrected in 2017 by the…
Captagon trade in Middle East topped $5bn in 2021
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Produced mainly in Syria and consumed almost exclusively in the Middle East, the drug poses an increasing health and security risk to the region, according to New Lines…
Ecological Leninism
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Adam Tooze on Andreas Malm’s post-pandemic climate politics The carbon clock is ticking. Governments and official agencies assure us that all will be well, that they can balance the…
The role of pandemics and socio-political and economic change in history
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Mohsen Shahmanesh This is a transcript of a talk given in a webinar organised by the journal Critique in October 2021 entitled “Pandemics in junctures of historic change”…
Climate Crisis Putting a Billion Children at ‘Extremely High Risk’
Monday, September 6, 2021
Reynard Loki “Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope,” said Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in 2019….
Iran accused of using ‘unlawful force’ against water protesters
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Middle East Eye staff Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province, international…
Toxic Saturation and Health Devastation in Iraq: The Indelible Damage of War (Part 1)
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Carly A. Krakow More than seventeen years since the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, and more than thirty years since the beginning of the 1990–91 Gulf War, legislation has…
Socialism and Ecology: Book Review
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
John Bellamy Foster Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2020 Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s…
Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Prabir Purkayastha Reflecting on the contributions of Friedrich Engels on his bicentenary brings three issues to mind. The first issue is, how do we read his writings today?…
Water in the Middle East: A Primer
Monday, October 19, 2020
Jessica Barnes Water is a prominent topic in discussions about the Middle East. Fishing at the Chebayesh marsh in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, April 2019. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters Yet…
Palestinian Workers in Israel Caught Between Indispensable and Disposable
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Lucy Garbett In Jerusalem under strict lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the abnormal quiet of the streets is disturbed by the familiar din of business-as-usual drilling and…
Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Various contributers From deep-rooted racism to the Covid-19 pandemic, from extreme inequality to ecological collapse, our world is facing dire and deeply interconnected emergencies. But as much as…
Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Multiple Crises, Multiple Obstacles Mel Gurtov COVID-19 and the protests for racial justice have drawn attention away from the mostly bad news about the environment. Yes, the skies…
COVID-19, Capitalist Crises, Class Resistance
Sunday, June 14, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic arrived at a moment of multiple crises of the capitalist system: capital accumulation, ecology, governance, and science. The uprising following the murder of George Floyd…
پاندمی کرونا، فاجعه زیست محیطی و سرمایه داری جهانی: یک پدیده در هم تنیده
Sunday, May 31, 2020
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The Coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism: an interlocking phenomenon
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Mehdi Kia The Covid-19 pandemic has unravelled the close structural links between the climate crisis and the global capitalist mode of production.[1] See John Bellamy Foster and Brett…
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace Calculation COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is…
The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Michael T. Klare Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise….
Essential Books: Environment and Politics in the Middle East
Thursday, April 30, 2020
While scholars of the Middle East have long been attentive to problems of land and property, resource extraction and accumulation, and the political nature of knowledge production, it…
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry…
Lebanon: Clientelism and the Destruction of Ancient Water Systems in Saida
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Lyne Jabri An overview of the modern urban history of Saida, Lebanon, reveals that the biggest changes to the city occur during times of crisis. During such critical…
بی‌خانمانی و پدیده تراژیک فرودستان حاشیه‌ای؛ از خانه تا خیابان
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
مرتضی دیّاری مقدمه مسئلۀ بی‌خانمانی و آثار فردی و اجتماعی آن، به عنوان یکی از مسائل اجتماعی ایران، از ابعاد مختلف قابل بررسی است. با گسترش این پدیده…
Why is Iran so paranoid about environmentalism?
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Kaveh Madani A group of Iranian conservationists, working for the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF) and known for their exemplary efforts in preserving the endangered Asiatic (Iranian) cheetahs,…
How the youth-led climate strikes became a global mass movement
Monday, September 23, 2019
Nick Engelfried. It began as a call to action from a group of youth activists scattered across the globe, and soon became what is shaping up to be…
In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Dr Hakim Young. Dear fellow human beings, Some of us have wondered, “Are people today too disconnected and frantic to calm down, in order to solve global challenges…
Iran’s Water Pressure: Droughts, Floods and a Looming Crisis
Monday, July 8, 2019
Xander Sneider. Summary Iran has long struggled to manage its paltry water resources. As Tehran wrestles with the effects of decadeslong drought and record flooding, it’s clear that…
A Green New Deal must deliver global justice
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Asad Rehman. For too long the severity and scale of the climate crisis has been deliberately understated, but October’s release of the IPCC’s Special Report on the Global…
The Iran Floods and US Sanctions: 10 Million at Risk, But Does Anyone Care?
Friday, April 19, 2019
Jan Oberg. You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions…
At least 62 people killed in Iran floods as US accused of blocking aid
Friday, April 5, 2019
Emma Graham-Harrison. The death toll from two weeks of flooding in Iran has risen to 62 as frustration mounts inside the country at the government’s handling of the…
Think we should be at school? Today’s climate strike is the biggest lesson of all
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Anna Taylor. It started in front of the Swedish parliament, on 20 August – a regular school day. Greta Thunberg sat with her painted sign and some homemade…