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Q. Since last Wednesday, the Israeli Army has been imposing a siege on Lebanon and bombarding the country as a result of…
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.
Eight members of the Italian Senate and two members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, all belonging to the left-wing of the…
State of Nature: With the recent rise in sectarian violence in Iraq, the suspicion that the U.S. is fostering civil strife in…
1. The sweeping electoral victory of Hamas is but one of the products of the intensive use made by the United States…
Gilbert Achcar is the author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (Monthly Review…
As part of his effort to influence the political forces in Iraq prior to the forthcoming parliamentary election, at the end of…
What is the situation in Lebanon after the assassination of [former Prime Minister Rafik] Hariri? The assassination resulted in the intensification…
Whatever the limitations of Rep. Murtha’s call to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq that we have already emphasized, he went much too…
There is much of which to approve in the recent speech of Rep. John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, on Iraq. The…
[Interesting insight into Iraqi thinking is provided by a recent exchange involving Dr. Ali al-Adad, a prominent member of the Central Council…