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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.
What Putin is doing now with this show of force is saying to the world: “We Russians also have an advanced weaponry, we can also deliver, and actually we are a more reliable ally than the US”
Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism both protest and contest social and political conditions in their host societies. But they don’t want the same changes
Has US power in the Middle East weakened and is this responsible for an increase in violence?
Interview on the current state of Egypt four years after a popular uprising forced then dictator Hosni Mubarak to step down
Interview on the questions the left in France and internationally need to answer to organize an anti-racist, anti-imperialist response
Interview on the historical and highly important crossroads in the development of the long-term revolutionary process
From the Massacre in Paris to the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
Interview on the struggle for democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa
Ilya Budraitskis Talks to Gilbert Achcar Ilya Budraitskis: The question I want to start with concerns your opinion about Russia’s place in…