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[This interview with IIRE Fellow Gilbert Achcar was conducted by Olivier Doubre and published in the French weekly Politis (18 February 2010).…
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.
What pushes Arabs to deny the existence of the Holocaust? How and why does Israel continue to instrumentalize the memory of the…
Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on the 4th of June 2009 definitely lived up to expectations — provided we agree on what…
Whether the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States will qualitatively alter U.S. Middle East policy…
Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon for many years. He is now Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in…
Charles-André Udry: THE DISASTER that marks the end of the Republican administration of George W. Bush reinvigorates the discussion of the status…
On 29 May, 2008, Michael Warschawski, co-founder of the Alternative Information Center, spoke with Gilbert Achcar at his office in London, England.…
Interview with Gilbert Achcar [This interview was conducted on May 20, 2008 by Foti Benlisoy and Aykut K?l?ç for the critical review…
[The following interview was published on May 29 in the Italian daily Il Manifesto. This translation from the Italian, by Michele Lipori…
[In an update for the forthcoming paperback edition of Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar answered…