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Doing a PhD on the intellectual history of Marxism in the Middle East / Mahdi Amel & his interlocutors / الطريق

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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Following the latest discourse around the Berlin elections makes the thought of coming back to Germany even worse 🌞
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rest in Peace, Elaine Mokhtefi (1928-2026)
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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Jetzt wird die Sarrazin-Geschichte offenbar neu geschrieben: Zum neueren Rechtsruck/Zur Faschisierung gehört, dass ihre vormaligen (und ja immer nur zur Hälfte) diskreditierten "Vordenker" rehabilitiert und rückwirkend anerkannt werden, damit es in der Gegenwart ideologisch auch wieder passt.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
These cowards are so scared of Blackrock investors leaving Berlin that they will BAN any possible federal implementation of a constitutional article for socialization of housing, even when passed by popular referendum. Welcome to the capitalist state. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-...
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„Wir wollen bauen, nicht enteignen“: Bund untersagt Ländern Verstaatlichungen von Wohnraum
Union und SPD haben sich in der Nacht auf ein Reformpaket verständigt. Die Passage zur Wohnungsbaupolitik enthält einen für Berlin wichtigen Passus.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
These are the numbers being cut from Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter:
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Latest addition to the Library, excited to read
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
»Revolutionary Journalism in Lebanon: 1925-1975« by Daher al-Akkari, Dar al-Farabi, Beirut 1975 (found at Asien-Afrika-Institut in Hamburg)
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Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Terrific read by Asli Bali in @bostonreview.bsky.social : "today’s landscape is one in which the United States … remains powerful enough to break things but is increasingly unable to stabilize the aftermath of its rampage." www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
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Object Lessons
The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
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Vanessa E. Thompson @vethompson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This work goes back now more than a decade. In 2011/2012, when some were screaming “critical whiteness” in full swing, we were trying to figure out the possibilities of anti-racist solidarities and political urban blackness. It was before the murder of Trayvon Martin, /1
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lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’m very grateful to be part of @merip.bsky.social’s new special issue on Campus Politics: Palestine and the New University Order. You can read Jannis Grimm and my article ‘The Palestine Test for German Universities’ here: www.merip.org/2026/04/the-... @interactfu.bsky.social
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I've reviewed Zainab Saleh's book Political Undesirables Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (2026). I highly recommend reading the book (and my review)
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The Precariousness of Citizenship: the Jewish and Kurdish Question in Iraq
Book Review of Zainab Saleh's Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2026)
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I've reviewed Zainab Saleh's book Political Undesirables Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (2026). I highly recommend reading the book (and my review)
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The Precariousness of Citizenship: the Jewish and Kurdish Question in Iraq
Book Review of Zainab Saleh's Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2026)
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What building an Afro-Asian Solidarity reading list looks like (work in progress)
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 31/03/2026
“Because Gulf-produced chemicals now sustain everything from factories in China to farms in South America,” writes Adam Hanieh, “disruption in the region ripples outward through industries and food systems across continents.”
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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh
Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November. Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'll be speaking at King's with @triofrancos.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh in a couple of weeks 23 March 2026 17:30 to 19:30 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...
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Who Owns the Energy Transition? Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers with Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami | King's College London
Join Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami for a discussion on how to think of climate politics in the context of changing energy networks, imperialism, and the remaking of the world order.
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Zwischen großflächigen Evakuierungsanordnungen und Solidarität, während die Angst vor dem, was noch kommt, alle im Land umtreibt. Für das zenith Magazin habe ich Eindrücke aus #Beirut, #Libanon zusammengefasst. Zum Nachlesen: magazin.zenith.me/de/gesellsch...
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Helfen und Bangen in Beirut
Das dichtbesiedelte Gebiet im Süden der libanesischen Hauptstadt wird in etwa von einer Million Menschen bewohnt. Viele von ihnen sammeln sich auf den Straßen Beiruts, während die Angst vor dem, was n...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
the fact that most who have died in the gulf so far are either stateless or migrant tells you everything
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Walid Khalidi, an exceptional Palestinian scholar and one of the most important memory-holders of Palestine has passed away.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What people in Tehran woke up to. They are breathing this now. This war has to end before it’s too late for all of us.
Dark smoke all over the city
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Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is the first strike during this war that they hit the inner circle of Beirut. Until now, this area has been considered a safe neighborhood and district. Many of the displaced built up their shelters nearby at the Corniche. Horrific. #Lebanon #Beirut
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Please support this campaign, organised by my good friend Rani in Beirut:
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...
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Revolution without illusion
The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here: mailchi.mp/09af158365d9... #Fanon100
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This 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!
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Sundays are for reading
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'm in this one folks! Check it out. It's open-access, link at the top of the thread
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The ‘ceasefire’
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Sign up today for this Workshop4Sudan coming up on December 3rd to support @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Chapter 3 of my summary of Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. This time we dig deeper into Marx’s history of philosophy and how open-ended history could be for him. 1/6
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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?
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The 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...
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LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Keine 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“
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
They've cancelled it while describing the uni as "a space for pluralistic discourse"...No contradiction at all...
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Starting with a chapter-by-chapter summary of Kevin Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads pbulished by @versobooks.bsky.social earlier this year. First up: the introduction, where Anderson lays out the reception history of Marx's late notebooks.
Cover of Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary RoadsIntroduction: Contours of the Late Marx
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? by Sara Roy @nybooks.com archive.ph/ZJIdr#select...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Mahmood Mamdani dedicating his latest book to his son @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What's the best Fairuz song and why is it Wahdon
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لاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My take on where we are www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Opinion | The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
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