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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.
1) Gulliver in Iraq — for how long? US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, best epitomizes the actual status of the US…
1) How US and British Forces help Iraqis recover their sovereignty For any person believing in good faith that occupation troops in…
1) The Saudi Kingdom and Iraq The last weeks and days have seen intensive campaigning by the Saudi Kingdom on the issue…
[Note: Achcar first replied to a Sept. 23 entry by Juan Cole on his Informed Comment blog. Cole then responded. This is…
[Note: Achcar is responding to the Sept. 23 entry by Juan Cole on his Informed Comment blog.] Dear Juan, Let…
Dear Juan, As a regular reader and occasional contributor to your blog, which I believe is doing a real service to…
THREE recent events have marked the Middle East. The death of Yasser Arafat on 11 November 2004, followed by the election of…
[An interview with Grenzeloos, the Netherlands] Q. What do you think of predictions that in a few decades China will be a superpower…
Classical Marxism’s theoretical (‘philosophical’) attitude towards religion combines three complementary elements, the germ of which can be already found in the young…