Interview with Gilbert Achcar on the subject of the continuing consequences of the Arab Spring.
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New Texts Out Now: Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising
Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Stanford: Stanford University Press and London: Saqi, 2016).
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
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Shame on Those Who Try to Justify Giulio Regeni’s Assassination: A Letter by Gilbert Achcar
[This letter by Gilbert Achcar, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, was originally published in Italian in Il Sole 24 Ore, as a response to public discussions re..
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Genealogies and Balance Sheets of the Arab Uprisings
Gilbert Achcar, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising. Translated by G. M. Goshgarian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
In Alice in Wonderland, a flustered white rabb..
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The People Want: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
As we are nearing the third anniversary of the Tunisian uprising, which ignited historic upheavals in the Arab world, Professor Gilbert Achcar investigates the social and economic roots of the social explosions in his new book, The Pe..
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Morsi and the Army: The Illusive Power
[The following excerpts are taken from Gilbert Achcar’s recently published book The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, translated by G. M. Goshgarian (London: Saqi Books..
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New Texts Out Now: Gilbert Achcar, Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser's Egypt
Gilbert Achcar, “Eichmann in Cairo: The Eichmann Affair in Nasser`s Egypt.” Arab Studies Journal Vol. XX No. 1 (Spring 2012).
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Gilbert Achcar on "The Arabs and the Holocaust"
The video below is from a book talk by Gilbert Achcar at the UC Berkeley`s Center for Middle East Studies on 20 October 2011. He discusses his critically acclaimed book, The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of..
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NATO's "Conspiracy" against the Libyan Revolution
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” at the poi..