Anna Younes (AY): As someone who was socialized and grew up in Lebanon, it is not immediately clear why you would write a book about The Arabs and the Holocaust. Is there something particular that made you aware that the history of anti-Semitism and the Middle East...
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What interests lie behind the Sudan-South Sudan conflict? | by Gavin Jackson
Following the declaration of independence by South Sudan – which is dependent on financial and military aid from American imperialism – tensions between Khartoum and Juba have been steadily ramped up over the past year and have brought death and destruction both sides...
Resisting hysteria, populism and indifference in the face of Islamophobia Forum speech delivered | by Nina Trige Andersen
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new enemy has replaced the figure of the communist in the propaganda of Western imperialism. Migrants in general and Muslims in particular, are now casted as the threat of liberty and prosperity...
The World Seen from the South | by Samir Amin and Irene León
Edited from an interview with Samir Amin conducted by Irene León Irene León: I would like to focus this interview on three distinct but related questions: your vision of the world and the possibilities of changing it; your conceptual and political proposal on the...
Egyptian junta installs Islamist Mursi as figurehead president | by Barry Grey
Egypt’s Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission on Sunday declared Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate, the winner of the presidential election runoff held the week before in the midst of a political coup carried out by the ruling Supreme Council of...
The failed emergence of Egypt, Turkey and Iran | by Samir Amin
These three Middle Eastern states should normally have been found in lists of today’s ‘emerging’ states. They have each attempted, in the past, to modernise as a response to the challenge from Europe. Egypt attempted this under Pacha Mohamed Ali of the nineteenth...
Between imperialism and repression | by Samuel Grove
Sami Ramadani speaks to Samuel Grove about the dynamics of the conflict in Syria, arguing that democratic resistance to Assad's brutal regime has been eclipsed by reactionary forces, backed by Western and Gulf states The upheaval in Syria is an enormously difficult...
Obama, imperialism, and capitalism | by Phil Gasper
In foreign policy, the Obama administration has continued what Bush began, argues Phil Gasper I DON’T often read the conservative columnist Ross Douthat in the New York Times, but a week after the Obama administration’s assassination of Osama bin Laden, Douthat for...
The Arab revolutions: A year after | by Samir Amin
Arab regimes achieved success within a short period but then ran out of steam as a result of their internal limits and contradictions. The ruling circles have given in to neo-liberal globalization, leading to rapid decline in social conditions. That is what caused the...




