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Doing a PhD on the intellectual history of Marxism in the Middle East / Mahdi Amel & his interlocutors / الطريق
Half Way through this illuminating book by @brankomilan.bsky.social. I really like how the author combines intellectual history with contemporary economic analysis. Probably the most important work in 2026 to understand the present state of Capitalism globally?
»Revolutionary Journalism in Lebanon: 1925-1975« by Daher al-Akkari, Dar al-Farabi, Beirut 1975 (found at Asien-Afrika-Institut in Hamburg)
I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:
Back to teaching my class on Nation, Class, and Religion in the Middle East. This week's reading is on striking working women in Lebanon's tobacco industry in the 1940s. The author links anti-colonialism, class, nation, and gender in an interesting & productive way
Falls es jemanden interessiert, von welcher Organisation der @taz.de Autor N. Potter hier für seine Arbeit gewürdigt wird. @abgeordnetenwatch.de hatte gerade erst die Recherche "Wie Elnet Politik und Unternehmen zusammenbringt" publiziert. Hat die taz ihrem Autor auch schon gratuliert?
Lots of interesting insights to gain from this passage in the book's introduction: How to approach the works of intellectuals from a critical perspective aiming to overcome metropole-periphery dichotomies?
They've cancelled it while describing the uni as "a space for pluralistic discourse"...No contradiction at all...
Interesting reflections on the current transition from neoliberal capitalism by Sven Beckert. Yet the question remains how to avoid the "morbid phenomena" of Gramsci's interregnum
Preparing the first session on Arab Nationalism for my current seminar on "Nation, Class, and Religion in the 20th century Middle East" 📚📖
Currently reading: Yvonne Albers' "Biography" of the periodical Mawāqif. A history of intellectuals & the practice of producing and publishing journals in Beirut, 1960s-90s. I hope there will be an English & Arabic translation of the book soon...
latest find via AUB's digital archive of »al-Ādāb«: Elias Khoury's article on the role of cultural journals for the national liberation movement and social progress (1974)
One thing I've found between the pages of the Lebanese Communist »al-Tarīq« journal: the yearly subscription form, stating that a sub would support the intellectual & political line of the journal. Subscription price for a full year: 10 Lebanese Lira (or equivalent for other currencies)
Starting with this book on the Lebanese New Left (Socialist Lebanon / Lubnan al-ishtiraki) this week I hope. Any good reviews so far?
I've been looking forward to the publication of this book for a while. By @esmat.bsky.social via @ucpress.bsky.social
Fawwaz Traboulsi, in his latest book »The Time of the New Left« writes about the central role of translating other works into Arabic within his Marxist circle in the early 1970s. Here, works by the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, translated by Waddah Chararah & himself
Spotted in Beirut: Mahdi Amel's »Marx in Edward Said's Orientalism«, published by Dar al-Farabi (1985)
Gerade erschienen bei @suhrkamp.de: L'an V de la révolution algérienne & Les damnés de la terre in einer Ausgabe in deutscher Übersetzung
If you're in Berlin in July, don't miss out on this 2 days conference on Frantz Fanon
Now published in Kurdish Studies Journal 3 (2025): Reading and Translating Fanon in Kurdistan, my interview with Sardar Saadi