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Doing a PhD on the intellectual history of Marxism in the Middle East / Mahdi Amel & his interlocutors / الطريق
- 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
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- Reposted by لاوانThis special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!
- 1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD
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- Sundays are for reading
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- 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?
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- 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?
- Reposted by لاوانThe LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
- Reposted by لاوانKeine dt. Wissenschaftsorganisation und m.w. auch keine Uni hat die völlige Zerstörung des Bildungssystems in Gaza verurteilt oder irgendein Mindestmaß an Solidarität gezeigt - aber eine wissenschaftliche Diskussion über den Scholastizid verbieten, das ist Zeichen eines „pluralistischen Diskurses“
- They've cancelled it while describing the uni as "a space for pluralistic discourse"...No contradiction at all...
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- What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? by Sara Roy @nybooks.com archive.ph/ZJIdr#select...
- Reposted by لاوانPlease join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
- Mahmood Mamdani dedicating his latest book to his son @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
- What's the best Fairuz song and why is it Wahdon
- 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
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- www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... Eine gute Rezension zu »Beirut und die Zeitschrift Mawāqif«
- I was today's years old when I learned that Perry Anderson and Benedict Anderson are brothers
- Lohnt sich
- Autumn Sunday walk in Hamburg 🍂🍁
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- Here are the readings for the seminar (in chronological order)
- 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...
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- Reposted by لاوانEin wirklich großartiger und kluger Text, der sowohl die historische als auch aktuelle Situation im Libanon treffend, wunderschön geschrieben und dicht in seinen globalgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang bringt. Must read! Danke @mounirzahran.bsky.social
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- I really appreciate this passage from the book's epilogue
- I've been looking forward to the publication of this book for a while. By @esmat.bsky.social via @ucpress.bsky.social
- Starting with this book on the Lebanese New Left (Socialist Lebanon / Lubnan al-ishtiraki) this week I hope. Any good reviews so far?
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- I've been looking forward to the publication of this book for a while. By @esmat.bsky.social via @ucpress.bsky.social
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- Absolutes must-read !
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- 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
- Reposted by لاوانOnce again @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference has been an absolute blast. Thanks so much to the brilliant organising committee. Can’t wait for #HyggeMarxism 2026 edition!
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- Spotted in Beirut: Mahdi Amel's »Marx in Edward Said's Orientalism«, published by Dar al-Farabi (1985)
- I will be teaching a seminar on »Nation, Class, Religion in 20.-21. century Middle East« next semester. Looking for must-read articles & books that approach these 3 dimensions in relation to each other. Thanks 🙏🏼
- Reposted by لاوانVincent B. und ich haben für @analysekritik.bsky.social über Fanons Werk gesprochen, u.a. über die Rezeption seines Werkes, Fanon und Feminismus, und über die Grenzen nationaler Befreiung: www.akweb.de/bewegung/mar...
- I hope to find time soon to start reading this
- I absolutely recommend reading this book @princetonupress.bsky.social
- Gerade erschienen bei @suhrkamp.de: L'an V de la révolution algérienne & Les damnés de la terre in einer Ausgabe in deutscher Übersetzung
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- International conference on Fanon, happening next week in Marrakesh
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- Reposted by لاوانIf you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵
- 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
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- I will be in Beirut this September, mostly for reading leftist journals from the 1960s-80s. Who else will be in town this time? Happy to connect
- Stocking up my bookshelf with the follow-up to Kevin Anderson's Marx at the Margins
- Latest addition to my collection of Fanon books: Gibson's Frantz Fanon - Combat Breathing (2024 by Polity Press)
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- Looking for an article or book that situates the founding period of the PKK within the broader context of national liberation movements in the middle east. Any suggestions?
