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When the Beirut-based Mahdi Amel Cultural Center approached me to oversee the translation and editing of selected works by Mahdi Amel, I immediately accepted. It was a unique opportunity to bring to light the intellectual contribution of a prominent Arab Marxis..

This Essential Reading is the “Egypt” installment of a focused series on “The Left" in the Middle East. Encompassing a broad range of entry points to researching and teaching the left, the series emphasizes communist and socialist components, while allowing authors to define the specific paramet..

Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik, A Theory of Imperialism (Columbia University Press: 2016).

Exactly 70 years ago, Hubert Humphrey

As part of the Jadaliyya Roundtable on New Media and New Politics, we offer three audio presentations from the April 2013 Westminster conference that address matters of mediation from theoretical and international perspectives. The topics presented here problematize analyses of the ..

A Brechtian maxim: “Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.” — Walter Benjamin, “Conversations with Brecht”[1]

You have no right to despise the present. — Charles Baudelaire, quoted in Michel Foucault, “What Is En..

Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Kamran Matin (KM): ..

Why do urban struggles matter in projects of social change? What is the importance of reclaiming public space in social movements? And at this gloomy global moment of extreme urban disparities and social inequalities, how do we re-think what is possible? For insights on these..

In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr. I could not help recalling our first meeting nearly forty five-years earlier and my mind went back to the genealogy of individuals and events stret..

After an engaging half-hour interview with India’s pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about my one-on-one time with Prabhat Patnaik.

“There are Marxists in India?” came the bemused response. “I thought India was the heart of the new ca..

Marx, in exemplary exposition of his irreconcilable opposition to rigid and reified formulations, wrote in Theories of Surplus Value, in a clearly humanistic and dialectical vein, that

Man himself is the basis of his material production, as of any other production that h..

Last month, the Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim sat down with Jadaliyya to talk about revolution, literature and the imagination. As always, the author was generous -- presenting a broad view of literature politics, and life. (Recorded in Cairo, May 14, 2011; the Arabic text can be found

After being glued to Al-Jazeera for what seemed like decades, I returned to semi-normal life and found that there was breaking news in the academic circles as well. In the last three weeks, the popular overthrow of Ben Ali and Mubarak seems to have brought about the demise of another oppressive ..