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working on Colonialism, Capitalism, and the intellectual history of Marxism in the MENA region & beyond
Hamburg, Germany
Joined January 2023
More than happy to share this: a special issue on Fanon in MENA, resulting from a workshop in Tunis last year I attended with great scholars/colleagues. My piece is a comparative reading of Fanon & Mahdi Amel. Please share widely 🙏🏼.
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 53: Frantz Fanon in the Middle East. Download the full PDF here:
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I discovered it through a footnote in Fawaz Gerges "The Great Betrayal"
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I really enjoy reading this book. Yet, so far, from the authors 3-fold analytical framework (see introduction), 2 really dominate the narrative: "foreign intervention" & "local forms of authoritarianism". Still waiting for more attention to the 3rd, "agency of everyday people".
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Fawaz Gerges laying out his perspective, arguing against purely "internalist" or "externalist" explanations. He emphasizes the dialectical relation of colonialism/foreign intervention & local authoritarian politics to make sense of the contemporary Middle East
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We are witnessing the sultanization of US politics under Trump.The world’s most powerful regime, the technological most advanced economy are ruled by a premodern form of a sultanistic regime as Max Weber lucidly described almost 100 years ago.
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Was ich an Ahmad Mansour wirklich schätze, ist dass er sich mit dem Fortschreiten des Genozid in seiner pervertierten Wahrnehmung selbst treu bleibt - und nicht opportunistisch plötzlich die Seiten wechselt wie viele andere im deutschen Diskurs.
Stellen Sie sich vor, Goebbels hätte TikTok gehabt. Stellen Sie sich vor, das Propagandaministerium der Nationalsozialisten hätte 1945 nicht nur Zeitungen und Radios kontrolliert, sondern die Bildgewalt von Facebook gehabt, die.Emotionalität von Instagram und die algorithmische
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RT @v_e_thompson: Der Theorieblog hat einen ganz schönen Schwerpunkt zu Fanon gemacht, mit einigen guten Beiträgen von bspw. Jeanette Ehrma….
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Am 20. Juli wäre Frantz Fanon 100 Jahre alt geworden. Fanon setzte sich in seinen Werken auf tiefgehende Weise mit dem Kolonialismus und seinen prägenden Nachwirkungen auseinander. Er analysierte K…
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So far the chapter I enjoyed the most: it traces the central place that sovereignty over the oil economy had for anti-colonial nationalist projects in the middle east & looks at the disturbing role of US-imperialism in this context.
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This analogy is completely missing the point. It's not about changing the name "Syria" (i.e. a nation state), but the qualifier "Arab", as this is an expression of Arab supremacy - a remnant of Arab nationalism - in the context of a multi-ethnic region & society.
@qunfuz2 There are many non Germans in Germany too, and non French in France and non English in England. Should we change the names of these countries too?.
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After reading 1/3 of »Crude Capitalism«: I wish there was more attention to the class struggle aspect & workers' experience/perspective in general within the oil economy. Maybe in the following chapters. ? Overall it's still a remarkably good book!
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After reading the first chapter today, I can't wait to finish this book
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Rashid Khalidi in an open letter addressing the impossibility of teaching Palestine at Columbia University
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
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RT @basel_adra: I can hardly believe it. My dear friend Awdah was slaughtered this evening.He was standing in front of the community center….
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Wie kommt es zur Auswahl der Autori*innen bei @QantaraDE? Eine iranische Pahlavi-Anhängerin, die auch sonst keine Expertise zur Thematik aufweisen kann?.
Warum die PKK gescheitert ist, erklärt @RamandiHaleh auf @QantaraDE .
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RT @sham_jaff: Former German President Joachim Gauck recently appeared on national television and, through tears, described how painful it….
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Fanon-Today conference in Berlin, trying to connect Mahdi Amel's 1968 writings on Colonialism & Underdevelopment to his 1964 text on "Frantz Fanon's Revolutionary Thought", published in the Algerian journal Révolution Africaine
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4 people assumed I was Lebanese after I gave a talk on Mahdi Amel's thought. I guess the remnants of identity politics discourse are still present.
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