Middle East 4 ChangeBook review: does terrorism work? A History
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books. Does Terrorism Work? A History by Richard English, Oxford When I am hit with news of yet another terrorist attack, I often…
Book Review: women fight the Islamic state
Monday, August 29, 2016
Janet Biehl, Roar. A Road Unforseen: Women fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax. Second Wave feminism, once it erupted in the late 1960s, called out misogyny where…
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…
American imperialism: exceptionalism and universalism
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Thomas Meaney London Review of Books American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers by Perry Anderson, Verso, A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global Role by John…
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…
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…
Wake Up and Smell the Oil
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Eddie J. Girdner Monthly Review Book review: Greg Muttitt, Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. Greg Muttitt quotes an Iraqi friend who pointed out…
Zionism, Imperialism, and Socialism
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Tom Mayer Monthly Review Moshé Machover, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution. Moshé Machover is a mathematician and political activist who was born in Tel Aviv in 1936…
The perils and promise of wartime analysis: Lessons from Syria
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Ghaleb Attrache Berkley Journal of Sociology For many, the “Syrian tragedy” is a prime example of popular aspirations gone disastrously awry, the “revolution-turned-civil-war”. Was any of this was…
4 billion at risk with falling global water table
Friday, April 8, 2016
Andea Germanos Common Dreams A new analysis reveals that global water scarcity is a far greater problem than previously thought, affecting 4 billion people—two-thirds of the world’s population—and…
The ethics of drones
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Thomas Nagel London Review of Books American philosopher Thomas Nagel attempts to lay out an ethical framework for how the rights and wrongs of drone warfare may be…
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
John Smith Monthly Review Winner of the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith’s…
Iran-Iraq War, Chemical Wonders: Book Review
Friday, February 12, 2016
London Review of Books Joost Hiltermann reviews a new book on the Iran-Iraq war by Pierre Razoux, translated into English by Nicholas Elliott. Hiltermann, a program director of…
Along the divide – Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies
Thursday, December 10, 2015
By Nathan Thrall London Review of Books Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies by Yossi Alpher Rowman and Littlefield, 196 pp, £23.95, January, ISBN 978 1 4422 3101 6 Israel is now confronted…