US Empire 20 Years after 9/11: A Reading List
Essential readings on the United States' imperialist ventures in the Middle East by Deepa Kumar, Suzanne Schneider, and Andrew Cockburn.
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Posts tagged: middle-east
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Israel’s illusion of normality collapses: May 2021
Haim Breseeth-Zabner, author of An Army Like No Other, on the current attacks on Palestinians, and the failure of the international community to condemn Israel's actions.
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A Matter of Life and Death: What war and the pandemic have in common
Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media's coverage of age of endless war.
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Nakba Day Reading List
To commemorate Nakba Day, a reading list on the history of the region and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
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‘If I’m dreaming, don’t wake me up’
The Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Eddé expresses her amazement at a movement that ‘gives visibility and voice to a people in whom no one believed any more’: a Lebanese people united in solidarity
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Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Stone Men explores how Palestinian labour built the land of Israel, and how to use this history in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
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The Left in Syria: From Democratic National Change to Devastation
Syrian writer Thaer A. Deeb chronicles the miscalculations that have prevented the Syrian left from playing a decisive role in the uprising that began in 2011.
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The Performance of Legitimacy: On the Syrian Missile Strikes
Missile strikes against Syria have set the stage for future military intervention around the world.
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From Afrin to Ghouta
While Erdoğan's tyranny is tolerated by "the West," "democracy" is no longer even an empty slogan where poor nations of the periphery are concerned.
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Alain Badiou on the Egyptian Revolution, Seven Years Later
On the seven-year anniversary of the 25 January Egyptian Revolution, Alain Badiou reflects on the movement that inspired The Rebirth of History.
