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 🙏🏼

Vincent 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

Join us next week in Berlin to celebrate Fanon‘s birthday and discuss why everyone should read him today! ✊🏽 Organized by @vethompson.bsky.social @robin-c.bsky.social @raulzelik.bsky.social

"In Gaza, the settler colonial practice of expulsion has now culminated in extermination." In our Summer issue, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social reviews Adam Kirsch's book on settler colonialism—and shows how the framework helps us understand Israel, past and present.

International conference on Fanon, happening next week in Marrakesh

Ladies & Gents: der Kurator des @taz.de Labs, das seinen Teilnehmenden Diskussion „jenseits der Empörung“ versprach, erklärt mal eben das Völkerrecht -hervorgegangen aus den deutschen Verbrechen- für wertlos. Ist das noch Geschichtsvergessenheit oder schon Relativierung historischer Verantwortung?

If 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

Call for papers: Submit an article on #communism and #socialism in the #MENA Region and win up to 500€ kritarab.hypotheses.org/1767 #callforpaper #bestpaperaward #kritarab

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)

I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan. Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

Gemeinsam mit @jannisgrimm.bsky.social habe ich im FJSB darüber geschrieben, wie die Versicherheitlichung von Universitäten als Reaktion auf Studierendenproteste in Solidarität mit Palästina repressive Maßnahmen auf dem Campus legitimiert und somit akademische Freiheiten zunehmend einschränkt ⬇️

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?

#Marxsky Dear comrades, I'm looking for two issues of the World Marxist Review (1963+64). Anyone with access? 🙏🏼

I'm putting together a roundtable for MESA 2025 in DC: "Gaza as a mirror of disciplinary challenges: academic integrity, multi-perspectivity and ethical representation in times of genocide" If you are planing to attend and would like to take part, please reach out ASAP! For RT description see 🧵

Started reading Empire of Cotton (King Cotton in the German version), a global history of capitalism through the lens of cotton. So far so good

Lazy Sunday read

Interviewed @naomiaklein.bsky.social about, well, a lot thefirethesetimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Good combination @plutopress.bsky.social

The Kurdish struggle is central to Syria's future www.newarab.com/opinion/kurd...

I've just finished reading pt. I of Lea Ypi's "Free", a memoir of her childhood/youth in Albania. Haven't read such a good book in a while. Also the German translation is brilliant. @leaypi.bsky.social

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state. 🧵

Issue 9,2 of Contemporary Levant is finally out! It's a special issue titled "Ordinary Ottomans: Post-World War I Settlements and Experiences of the End of Empire", guest edited by Aline Schlaepfer and Jordi Tejel and the full ToC is here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycol20/9...

TFTT Special: Roundtable on #Syria with @ayoub.bsky.social @leilashami.bsky.social @aymanmak.bsky.social @karena1.bsky.social thefirethesetimes.com/2024/12/03/t... To support: www.patreon.com/fromtheperip...

Two great biographies of two revolutionary intellectuals

New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation" Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...

Amidst talks of an imminent ceasefire, Israel just bombed Beirut. They have now issued multiple threats again, this time in Haret Hreik and Burj Barajneh. #Lebanon

My two fav rows in the bookshelf 📚📖

In 1970, there was a Monthly Review Issue with a focus on Lenin. It has pieces by Hobsbawm, Galeano, and Walter Rodney. Fascinating stuff

So, it seems we're in the stage of primitive accumulation where starter packs are being accumulated on a mass scale?

Degrowth communism and fellow traveller starting pack! go.bsky.app/6byAs25

So to help out @abuaardvark.bsky.social transfer the menasky list into sth more accessible, I created a SWANA starter pack. Please help me complete it (will create pt. II once this pack is full) go.bsky.app/CyUi3Ms

Now available for pre-order: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson

Accumulation on a bluesky scale

monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/m... Really interesting piece on the indigenous & colonial question in Marx' work. By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman (2020)

The initial “Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, etc.” starter pack is now full, so I have created “Part II,” which is growing rapidly. Please share if you find them helpful and if you think I should add someone or missed you, please reach out. go.bsky.app/5GR8AAt

I put together a starter pack of people who work on political economy histories, and intersections between history and political economy. Let me know if you would like to be added or have suggestions on people to add.

Anyone working on racial capitalism, capitalism and imperialism (from a theoretical perspective) in the UK?

I've set up a starter pack for academics in Francophone Post- and Decolonial Studies and Histories, please let me know who else to add: go.bsky.app/Jx7j4N1

Is there any particular reason why Hobsbawm is not as much quoted in Marxist theory today? Or is it just a false impression on my side? Please enlighten me 🙏🏼

I did a #Lebanon #Starterpack y’all go.bsky.app/Rh15fzv

+ OUT NOW + Unser neuer Theorieband »Dekolonialer Marxismus« enthält bisher unveröffentlichte od. an verstreuten Orten erschienene Schriften des kritischen Historikers + radikalen Aktivisten #WalterRodney, die während der weltbewegenden Tage der Schwarzen Revolution der 1960/70er Jahre entstanden /1