Middle East 4 ChangeAleppo
Friday, December 16, 2016
Craig Murray. The Morning Star has today come under massive criticism for hailing the near total recapture of Aleppo by pro-Government forces as a “liberation.” I would agree…
The fall of Aleppo
Friday, December 16, 2016
Sam Hamad, The New Arab. The fall of Aleppo to pro-Assad militias is a catastrophic blow to the revolutionary forces in Syria. Of this there is no doubt. Even…
Why schools have become a battleground in Turkey
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor. When Turkey’s teachers returned to school in September, they found their numbers decimated by expulsions, more than half their textbooks gone, and some…
Turkey: HDP on the arrests of party co-chairs and MPs and the eradication of rule of law
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Hişyar Özsoy and Aysel Tuğluk, Links. This brief presents an overview of the illegality of the entire political and judicial process leading up to the arrest of our…
Morroco’s Makhzen: repression and resistance
Monday, November 28, 2016
Richard Greeman, Counterfire. On Wednesday 26 October, the well-known Moroccan historian and human rights activist Maâti Monjib and five of his colleagues were hauled into the High Court…
The Legacy of Omar Aziz: Building autonomous, self-governing communes in Syria
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Leila Al Shami, Leila’s blog. Omar Aziz was in his sixties when he returned to Syria in 2011. He’d been working for an information technology company in Saudi…
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…
Majoritarian Syria: Justice in Conflict Resolution
Friday, October 28, 2016
Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Al-Jumhurya. What is a resolution in Syria? Syrians engaged in public affairs are always being asked about our conception of a resolution to the Syrian…
Etienne Balibar: Laïcité or identity?
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Verso Books. The controversial banning of the “Burkini” by several French municipalities – and it’s overturning by the state council – has once again brought the question of…
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…
Truth is always revolutionary
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Jurgen Balzan, Malta Today. Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is one of the leading lights of Arab literature and he says that the Israeli occupation is classical colonialism built…
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…
Daraya
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Leyla’s blog. Four years following its liberation, the predominantly agricultural town of Daraya, strategically located near the capital, has fallen to the regime. A deal was reached to…
Food Sovereignty in Rebellion: Decolonization, Autonomy, Gender Equity, and the Zapatista Solution
Monday, August 22, 2016
Levi Gahman, Znet. One of the biggest threats to food security the world currently faces is neoliberalism. It’s logic, which has become status quo over the past 70…
Political Islam, Part 3: How it effects society
Friday, August 19, 2016
Ardeshir Mehrdad, Illustrations by Ardeshir Mohassess. An illegitimate child of advanced capitalism, Political Islam has profound effects on the society that gives birth to it both before and…
Turkey, Opposing the Coup, Surviving Erdogan
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Joseph Daher, Peace News. On the night of Friday to Saturday, July 15-16, a fraction of the Turkish army attempted a military coup against the AKP government. It…
Lessons of the Syrian Revolution for Iranians
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Frieda Afari, Alliance of Middle East Socialists from Radio Zamaneh. An analysis of Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al Shami. Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, Pluto…
The fall of the Turkish model: Book review
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Ece Temelkuran reviews book in New Left Review Fall of the Turkish model, by Cihan Tuğal, Verso books, 2016 If Cihan Tuğal’s book was filmed as a political…
It’s the will of the Turkish people, Erdogan says. But which people?
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Ayça Çubukçu, The Guardian. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen,” Lenin said. Turkey is having weeks like that. After the failed…
Turkey: Stand against freedom violations
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
European Federations of Journalists. Attacks targeting the media in Turkey have led the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) to alert the Council of Europe about a…
Erdoğan’s counter-coup coup in Turkey
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Esen Uslu, Weekly Worker. When I was writing the following lines two years ago, I was almost able to see the smirk on the face of some of…
Turkey: Kurdish movement condemns coup and counter-coup
Friday, July 22, 2016
Green Left. The umbrella organisation of the Kurdish movement, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Presidency, released the following statement on July 16: There has been a…
PKK on Turkey coup: No democracy in ‘fascist’ Erdogan-led government
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Open Democracy. In a statement published on July 16, the political affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (Group of Communities in Kurdistan –…
Syria’s forgotten revolutionaries
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Patrick Ward Bookwitty Interview with Leila al-Shami In 2011 the Arab Spring swept the Middle East and North Africa. Millions of people rose up against dictatorships across the…
BDS: Discussing Difficult Issues in a Fast-Growing Movement
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Omar Barghouti Al-Shabaka Israel’s attacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and other human rights defenders living under occupation, such as Al Haq staff, have dominated…
Behind Terror and Anti-Terror
Friday, July 1, 2016
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Defend Democracy Press Stop discussing about the roots of terrorism, stop debating our policies in the Middle East (and all the Third World, but those are…
How the Syrian Revolt Became Armed
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Robin Yassib-Kassab/Leila al-Shami The Daily Beast The Bashar al-Assad regime has burned Syria with artillery, Scud missiles, barrel bombs and sarin gas. According to the United Nations Human…
Iraq’s forgotten uprising
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Robin Yassin-Kassab Qunfuz A great deal has been written on the factors behind the rise of ISIS, or Daesh, in Iraq and Syria. Too much of the commentary…
Committees, Councils and Cultural Production
Friday, June 24, 2016
Gunfuz Middle East for Change links to this podcast because of the light it throws on democratic achievements and self-government in Syria. In this presentation on Syria –…
PFLP News
Friday, June 3, 2016
Redline In the Occupied Territories a kind of neo-colonial power structure has been forged around people who have abandoned the struggle for national liberation in order to carve…