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Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. His books include The New Cold War: Chronicle of a Confrontation Foretold. Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising; The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising; The Clash of Barbarisms; Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy; and The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. He is a member of Anti-Capitalist Resistance.
The gigantic upheaval that is shaking the entire Arab world since its initial tremors started in Tunisia on 17 December 2010 was…
In a manner infused with the spirit of Western Orientalism, as defined by Edward Said, some Arabs have held that a despotic…
One year after the start of a revolutionary process which swept through the Arab region and continues today, International Viewpoint asked Gilbert…
It is great honor for me to join you in celebrating this first anniversary of the beginning of the Tunisian revolution in…
While voices were being raised from the right, and part of the left, declaring the "Arab Spring" over and advising the rebellious…
I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital…
Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of…
This past October, I gave talks about my book, The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, at five California…
Christian Höller: The recent uprisings in various Arab countries have been accompanied, at least on the side of Western commentators, by equal measures…