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…
Jihadism: bitter fruit of imperialism
Saturday, November 20, 2021
Yassamine Mather n the aftermath of every Islamist terror attacks in America, Europe or the UK, such as the stabbing of Tory MP David Amess, we hear 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”…
Political Islam and Democracy Crisis in North Africa
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Ramzy Baroud When the news circulated that Morocco’s leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), has been trounced in the latest elections, held in September, official…
Turkey at the Crossroad
Monday, April 5, 2021
Cihan Tuğal Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural…
Turkey at the Crossroads?
Friday, February 26, 2021
Cihan Tuğal Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural…
Arab Spring: The End of Political Islam as We Know It
Monday, February 15, 2021
Abdullah Al-Arian Last month, Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker and head of the Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, came under fire for comments he made following a meeting with the French ambassador. Following a recent string…
Arab Spring: The end of political Islam as we know it
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Abdullah Al-Arian Last month, Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker and head of the Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, came under fire for comments he made following a meeting with the French ambassador. Warning…
The Hirak: Algerian Uprisings of 2019 – Essential reading
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Muriam Haleh Davis, Thomas Serres, and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) This collection of texts in English, Arabic and French is a first attempt to gather…
More than ever, the struggle for justice unites the Middle East and the world
Monday, November 16, 2020
Jade Saab “A spectre is haunting Europe…” This is how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels opened their Communist Manifesto, written on the eve of several uprisings on the continent…
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…
Western “Anti-Imperialists” Silence Middle Eastern and North African Voices
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Daliah Lina “You stand with the terrorist troops. You are a jihadist.” This just covers a part of the public smearing I had to face the last couple…
Turkey: Erdoğan’s new adventure in Libya
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Esen Uslu The ever increasing expansionist policies of Turkey have recently extended across the Mediterranean Sea and reached to the shores of North Africa. The Turkish bourgeoisie, especially…
the Arab region’s long-term revolutionary process
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Gilbert Achar When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end to Omar al-Bashir’s authoritarian rule, this immediately triggered memories of 2010,…
Feminists on the front lines of the Algerian uprising
Monday, September 9, 2019
Leïla Ouitis When in early February Algeria’s ailing octogenarian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for the presidency for a fifth term, millions of Algerians took…
Uprising in Sudan: Interview with Sudanese Comrades
Friday, June 7, 2019
As the Sudanese uprising enters its most critical conjuncture, with negotiations between the military council and the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change collapsing, and the…
Decolonizing Justice in Tunisia From Transitional Justice to a People’s Tribunal
Friday, May 17, 2019
Corinna Mullin, Nada Trigui and Azadeh Shahshahani Building on decades of struggle, the January 2011 Tunisian uprising triggered a wave of popular revolt that spread across North Africa…
Welcome to the new Algerian revolution: an interview with Hamza Hamouchene
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Omar Hassan speaks to Algerian scholar and activist Hamza Hamouchene, coordinator of Environmental Justice North Africa and co-founder of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign, about the mass movement sweeping Algeria. In…
What Revolutionaries Have Learned Since the Arab Spring
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Patrick Cockburn. Two very different political waves are sweeping through the Middle East and north Africa. Popular protests are overthrowing the leaders of military regimes for the first…
Libya’s Incoming Strongman Haftar Will Send The Oil Out To Europe – And Keep Its Migrants In
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Vijay Prashad. The West and the Gulf Arabs have condemned Libya to the strongman. You can well imagine the tension when Libya’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj met…
Algeria in revolt: “We woke up and you will pay!”
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Hamza Hamouchene. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their struggle to radically overhaul the system. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president for…
Algeria: From the War of National Liberation to Gentrification:
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Conflicting Claims over Property in Algeria. Robert P Parks. December 22, 2013, 40 families living at 11 Boulevard de la Soummam — the Champs Élysées of the western…
Globalised Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco – Book Review
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Koenraad Bogaert, Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Koenraad Bogaert (KB):…
Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Tom Stevenson. Posted on LA Review of Books, June 27, 2018. ON JANUARY 31, 2017, four lawyers arrived at the steps of Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on the…
Poem by Sukaina Habiballah: ‘Everything in You Grew, But Not Your Hand’
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Translated by Robin Moger. Posted on ArabLit May 25, 2o18. Over at Youssef Rakha’s Cosmopolitan Hotel, there are six poems in Robin Moger’s translation, by Moroccan writer Sukaina…
Morocco’s Movements Take to the Streets for Water, Labor Reforms, and Human Rights
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Ilhem Rachidi. Posted on Toward Freedom May 10, 2018. Last December, the brothers Houcine and Jedouane Dioui died while working in a coal mine in Jerada, a small…
Hadj-Ali Abelkader: A Muslim Communist in the 1920s
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Ian Birchall. Published by International Socialist Review number 106 The relations between Muslims and revolutionary socialists have often been problematic. A few years ago in France there was…
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…
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…