Why did the "massive collapse after the October 2019 protests [fail] to generate commensurate political, ideological, and organizational responses?" Check out this wonderful new piece by @bassel26.bsky.social #Polisky

My new paper just out: “The Anatomy of Lebanon’s Postwar Integral State: The Political Economy of Cartels and Consent” 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FJEAG...

Just out: Pete Moore and @seanyom.bsky.social in conversation with Ezra Karmel about their MELG Roundtable “Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East," which includes articles on Jordan, Syria and Yemen on.soundcloud.com/CgXZYhR8rgxs...

MELG’s new issue is out! It’s a SI on “Populism in the Arab World” coedited with MELG Editorial Board member @ammars.bsky.social

❤️ to see Winning Lebanon getting good press years later. Thanks @bassel26.bsky.social for reviewing 👏

Chech out Tamirace Fakhoury’s blog about our new MELG SI on “Concomitant crises and Sectarian Power-Sharing: What’s next for Lebanon?” blog.brill.com/display/post...

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

Civilians in Beirut are heading to seek shelter at the American University of Beirut Hospital amid Israeli evacuation orders in central Beirut. 🇱🇧 (Photo sent by local residents to L'Orient Today)

This classic work in the history of nationalism argues that the rise of widely available print (esp. newspapers) made it possible for geographically dispersed groups of people to imagine themselves as a roughly coherent entity called "a nation" in which there was an ongoing conversation.

“Join a labor union, a social movement, a political party, a tenant union, a community organization, a book club. Literally anything is better than sitting at home and scrolling on your phone and getting mad at the news.”

Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, November 2024 www.sup.org/books/law/bu...

The strike killed the regional head of the public civil defense agency. One of his final requests was for a "bio radar" to detect life under rubble. So many ppl in the region have told me they joined civil protection b/c they didn't want to do politics or join a party; they just wanted to help ppl.

A year on from the IDF's assault on Gaza's largest hospital, it has yet to provide any compelling evidence to suggest facility was a Hamas HQ, as alleged by Isreal and US. Attack set the tone for a campaign that has since decimated Gaza's medical system. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

World Bank estimates cost of Israel’s war on Lebanon at $8.5 billion so far. www.worldbank.org/en/news/pres...

My contribution to the new issue of the newsletter of the Democracy and Autocracy section of APSA about my chapter It features the recent book “Making Sense of the Arab State”

Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch, eds., Making Sense of the Arab State (New Texts Out Now) jadaliyya.com/Details/46324 via @jadaliyya.bsky.social

“Making Sense of the Arab State” featured in APSA’s Democracy & Autocracy newsletter 👇🏼👇🏼

My review of Azmi Bishara’s Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

MELG 16.3 (2024) is out and our readers are in for a comprehensive issue, composed of 2 articles, a Roundatble, a Fieldnote and a Case Comment!

Check out MELG 16.2’s ToC 👇🏼👇🏼

MELG volume 16 issue 2 is out, check it out: 👇🏼👇🏼 brill.com/view/journal...

Co-authored with @halawi.bsky.social & Janine Clark in & Trying to answer the most difficult question of all: how do radical movement parties birth political change in political economic contexts they reject completely! 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧

Pleasure to author this with the formidable Lisa Anderson as an Introduction to a GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES SI on “Social Sciences in the Arab World” with many thanks to all the contributors online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/5...

من روائع أدب الحرب، الأسبوع الأخير لهالة كوثراني، بقلم: سيد الوكيل

Welcome Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa (REMENA) workshop to DI

Wait for it: “Making Sense of the Arab State” Edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch, T of C 👇🏼👇🏼 press.umich.edu/Books/M/Maki...

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To members of the Middle East Politics section of the APSA: Please note that nominations for our 4 major awards are due by January 1, 2024! Awards are for Best Book, Best Article, Best Dissertation, and Best APSA Paper. Please log on to Apsanet for the details and good luck!

Really good piece worth reading all the way through

By our very own Mohamed Hemchi عن مفهوم المجتمع الدولي وخيبته المريرة في غزة www.dohainstitute.org/ar/ResearchA...

As you enjoy your break, consider donating to one of the many organizations delivering aid to Palestinians. Here are some options. ANERA: support.anera.org/a/donate?_gl... PCRF: www.pcrf.net UNRWA: donate.unrwa.org/-landing-pag... Would love to see other suggestions in the replies.

Defending the Philosophy for Palestine letter: An incisive response by Muhammad Ali Khalidi to Seyla Benhabib's critique/smearing of our letter. On why Benhabib's essay was not only a misrepresentation of our letter, but a dangerous one. Our letter (400+ signed): www.philosophyforpalestine.com

Azmi Bishara: “Moral Matters in Hard Times” at www.dohainstitute.org/en/Lists/ACR...

A great piece from @separkinson.bsky.social on analogies between the ongoing war in Gaza and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon - highlighting the folly of believing that disproportionate use of violence can constitute a meaningful "solution" to conflict: www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/ghost...

@seanyom.bsky.social and I convened a roundtable on politics and ethics of researching conflict, featuring recent books on war and displacement in Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen by @separkinson.bsky.social, @philbrickyadav.bsky.social, Anne Irfan, Kevin Mazur, and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. It's 🔥

My belief that Harari was scam artist now augmented by the fact that I think he is also a prick.

My new report for Century International: Foreign donors are helping keep Lebanon's public institutions and services on life support, in ways many people don't even realize. It's time to talk about this assistance, and its potentially perverse effects. tcf.org/content/repo... menasky

عن الموقف العربي الرسمي من عملية طوفان الأقصى وما تلاها من عدوان www.dohainstitute.org/ar/ResearchA...

Another important interview with Azmi Bishara www.youtube.com/live/lbceoip...

BRISMES has issued a statement warning of the danger of massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank. We are deeply concerned that, under the cover of the Gaza War, the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank will intensify. www.brismes.ac.uk/files/docume...

Excellent and informative interview with Azmi Bishara x.com/alarabytv/st...

حيدر سعيد: "عن فلسطين.. وعنّا" www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45424

My daughter is in a NIC unit just like this one. Premature babies in Gaza deserve the same chance to live. Do they deserve it because they voted for Hamas? Stop this madness. Let real humanitarian aid in. Stop this.

This is devastating: wehaddreams.com

محمود درويش، "تضيق بنا الارض "

Thank you @separkinson.bsky.social for a wonderful talk

عزمي بشارة: عن التحليق فوق الحصار www.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/%D8%...