Middle East 4 ChangeAfter the Israeli Election
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Moshé Machover The results of the elections to the Israeli parliament held on November 1 are momentous and I think we are heading for a crisis that will…
A message from Palestinians to Iranian women and men
Saturday, November 19, 2022
From Palestinians To Iranians This is a Palestinian blog in support of the revolution of Iranian women and men. Monday, 14 November 2022 A Palestinian message to Iranian…
Health system performance in Iran: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
GBD 2019 Iran Collaborators A report published in the medical Journal Lancet (April 6 2022) shows that sanctions imposed on Iran have had a major effect on population…
Zionism: Messianic colonialism
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Moshé Machover Recently I was watching live news from Jerusalem, which exemplified in a frightening way the subject of this article[1]This article is based on the talk given…
Russia’s Attempt at Reshaping the World Economy
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Ramzy Baroud Starting on May 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab…
Not 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…
From Tantura to Naqab: Israel’s Long Hidden Truths are Finally Revealed
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Ramzy Baroud A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth…
Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish’s tribute to Edward Said
Friday, January 21, 2022
I CANNOT quite say goodbye to Edward Said, because he remains so present among us and alive in the world. He was our conscience and our ambassador to…
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…
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”…
Petrochemical workers in Iran strike over pay and conditions
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Jean Shaoul Petrochemical workers across Iran have been waging strikes since June 19 to demand higher pay, the payment of back wages, the elimination of intermediary contractors and…
Each rock has two names: the war over Nagorno-Karabakh
Friday, June 25, 2021
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Outside the town of Agdam, in the foothills of Nagorno-Karabakh, trucks and tank carriers had left tracks in the muddy road. Bomb craters and mangled military…
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…
US Drug Lobby try to prevent delivery of low-cost vaccines to poorer counties
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Lee Fang President Joe Biden’s administration is being asked to punish Hungary, Colombia, Chile, and other countries for seeking to ramp up the production of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics without…
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…
Ending the Other War in Yemen
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Brian Terrell On February 4, in his first major foreign policy address, President Joe Biden announced “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war…
The limits of guerillaism: interview with Mohammad Reza Shalguni
Monday, February 8, 2021
Mohamad Reza Shalgouni was a founder-member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). He spoke to Yassamine Mather about his strategic reassessment as a prisoner…
The House of Zion
Monday, December 28, 2020
Perry Anderson Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us…
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…
Blips on the Screen: the drone as a weapon of war
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Andrew Cockburn The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace by Michael Boyle. Oxford, Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium by Thomas Stubblefield. California, The Kill Chain: Defending America…
Covid-19 vaccine: How the Middle East and North Africa is preparing
Friday, December 11, 2020
This month, Covid-19 vaccines are set to begin rolling out to patients worldwide. Some countries in the Middle East and North Africa have already ordered doses from manufacturers…
Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Patrick Cockburn I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace…
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…
Death of courageous journalist of Middle East, Robert Fisk
Friday, November 13, 2020
Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was…
The Syrian Mercenaries Fighting Foreign Wars for Russia and Turkey
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Elizabeth Tsurkov “They sent us directly to the front lines. The situation is terrible. Terrible. There is fighting every day. We are charged with storming. There is no…
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…
‘Music is our only weapon’: Middle Eastern artists fight oppression with new ‘peace album’
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Bell Trew One of the songs was recorded during an air strike, parts of another by a fleeing refugee aboard a boat. The man behind the album is…