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More than happy to share this: a special issue on Fanon in MENA, resulting from a workshop in Tunis last year I attended with great scholars/colleagues. My piece is a comparative reading of Fanon & Mahdi Amel. Please share widely 🙏🏼
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 53: Frantz Fanon in the Middle East. Download the full PDF here:
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If you couldn't imagine how rotten the German public discourse is. The reactions on a mainstream journal putting a Palestinian woman on the cover: this is a green party politician...👇🏼
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Finally getting to Rodinson's classic work on Marxism and the Muslim world (first published in french in 1972)
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The original cover quotes "I don't think it is correct to only focus on 7 October". The adapted cover reads "I don't think it's right to only focus on the Shoah". The equation of Palestinians with Nazis should be investigated under criminal law.
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Nach 5 Monaten der Enthumanisierung können manche es nicht aushalten, eine palästinensische Person auf einem Cover zu sehen...was ist bei solchen Leuten falsch gelaufen im Leben?
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A lot of ppl supposedly standing on the left have forgotten about Iran's repression against its own citizens & non-persian ethnic groups in Iran; their role in Syria; their role in Iraq.
Anti-Imperialism of the fools.
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"Kultur des Lebens". Zitat Ende
Messages from Jabalia:
Tanks are crawling in to finish the job
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Die Reproduktion genozidaler Rhetorik und Schaffung von Konsens für isr. Kriegsverbrechen. Das ist Baerbocks Vision von "feministischer Außenpolitik" in der Praxis (Rede vom 10.10.24)
Die grüne Außenministerin
@ABaerbock
rechtfertigt in ihrer Bundestags-Rede die israelischen Angriffe auf zivile Ziele in Gaza, inklusive Schulen in denen Flüchtlinge untergekommen sind, bei denen in den letzten Monaten tausenden Zivilisten, Kinder, Verletzte getötet worden sind.
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I really don't get this whole "Germany is embarrassing itself rn" talk. As if that - how the rest of the world looks at G - would be the problem here. Couldn't care less about the state's image. Start thinking about material relations of oppression and exploitation instead.
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We can now watch the German government's interpretation of jin jiyan azadi turning into practice: deporting Kurdish women (a minor and an elderly) to Iran
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Never forget. It took half a year of actively contributing to today's situation, which is now called "the hell that Gaza is" (Baerbock), to finally support a temporary (!) ceasefire...
This is what Germany's "feminist foreign policy" looks like: rejecting a humanitarian ceasefire. No surprise that the Berlin think-tank
@feministfp
didn't say a word since 7th October...
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I will be in Paris in about two weeks to attend this conference. Hit me up if you want to connect, I'm free the day before
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Best thing about working academia is ordering all the fresh publications for research & teaching
#capitalism
#colonialism
#Marxism
#kurdishstudies
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In 1977, the Lebanese communist journal al-Tariq organized a symposium on the question of "The development of Marxist thought between the logic of unity and specificity". Participants of the debate are, among others, Husayn Muruwwah & Mahdi Amel (both got assassinated in 1987)
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case closed
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Finally got this one: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi's The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism (2010). The reviews of and references to this work have been great so far. I mean...just look at that table of contents. I'll probably start reading with chapter 5
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Anyone interested in Marxist critiques of Said's Orientalism should read Gilbert Achcar's concise treatment of this debate. For a more in-depth text, see Sing/Younes, or the excerpts in English translation of Mahdi Amil's هل القلب للشرق والعقل للغرب؟
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'The Wretched of the Earth' gets its first Kurdish translation as the first publication from Rojava University Press
Some major announcements from the University of Rojava
@RojavaUniv
I am so happy and incredibly proud to announce the establishment of the University of Rojava Press. The first book that we decided to publish is “the Wretched of the Earth” by the one and only Frantz Fanon. 1
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I'm off to Tunis for two days of discussing Frantz Fanon's legacy and relevance today. Looking fwd to meeting some great scholars and colleagues.
(Photo: Fanon in Tunis, 1959)
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Check out the Mahdi Amel Papers at
@IISG_Amsterdam
including numerous records, private papers, documents, manuscripts, a copy of his PhD Dissertation (in French), and private photos of Hassan Hamdan/Mahdi Amel. Online access:
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Diese ganzen deutschen die jetzt das erste mal weinen wegen den Bildern aus rafah. Wer Augen hat, konnte diese Bilder seit Monaten sehen. Ich habe sie gesehen. Seit Monaten.
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Münchener Sicherheitskonferenz vibe ist wie so ein Twitch influencer meet and greet, aber mit Kriegsverbrechern und peinlichen deutschen Journos und Aktivisten
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If your idea of anti-imperialism includes proto fascist states that both suppress emancipatory & liberation movements inside their own country and attack, dominate, and colonize others (looking at Turkey and Iran), then your politics is deeply flawed
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Wenn man nicht wüsste, wo dieser Text erschienen ist, würde sich dieser Satz wie eine antisemitische Erzählung lesen lassen.
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@ingridharvold
@richten_nach
Could you recommend an article / book that engages critically in this sense with their works? 🙏🏼
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Erinnert sich noch jmd an die Demonstrationen aus der bürgerlichen Mitte gg "Remigrationspläne"? So sieht die politische Praxis unter eurer Fortschrittskoalition bereits jetzt aus.
An eyewitness sent me this video taken yesterday while travelling from Berlin to Gambia. He shared the plane with three German police officers who are in the video deporting a young Senegalese man. According to the eyewitness, the young Senegalese had been
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I've learnt a lot from this episode on the history of Communism in Iraq and the life & work of Ibrahim Allawi (parts of his work have recently been translated into English)
🚨 New Episode 🚨
Islam, the Commons, & (Democratic) Socialism w/
@aliassam
Here, we talk about a new English translation of a text by the legendary Iraqi Communist leader Ibrahim Allawi (new from
@iskrabooks
, see replies for link)
Ep is here 👉
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What's so staggering about the compelling presentation of evidence at the ICJ is that we basically know all the facts already.
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For International Workers' Day, Fanon reminds us how the struggle for decolonisation always has to be structurally linked to the struggle against capitalist exploitation.
Excerpts from Bashir Abu-Manneh's amazing article "Who owns Frantz Fanon's Legacy?"
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My attempt at a translation of parts of Mahdi Amel's arguments in this debate:
In 1977, the Lebanese communist journal al-Tariq organized a symposium on the question of "The development of Marxist thought between the logic of unity and specificity". Participants of the debate are, among others, Husayn Muruwwah & Mahdi Amel (both got assassinated in 1987)
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Book cover of the Arabic translation of a selection of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (rasā'il al-sijn), including "the letters to his mother"
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I'm not easily impressed by academic talks, but listening to Avi Shlaim & Raja Shehadeh was kind of an inspiring experience. Really looking fwd to reading "Three Worlds"
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@pepepito1983
@ZDF
Richtig schlimme Sendung. Alleine das Ende als der Moderator mit leuchtenden Augen sagt, man könnte dann sogar eine Universität in Gaza bauen...well, vielleicht hätten man nicht alle zerstören sollen in the first place...
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No offense, but this statement is really ignorant. What about decades of scholarship & Fanon studies on which Shatz, like any other author, builds in his own writing? It can never be "only one person" to trust. Who owns the legacy of Fanon?
Nuanced & thoughtful review by
@edokonrad
of new book by a nuanced & thoughtful thinker, the only person I really trust to explain Fanon - Adam Shatz.
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Amilcar Cabral on solidarity between the European left & working classes, and national liberation movements
from "Brief Analysis of the Social Structure in Guinea" (1964)
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@Research_Table
@AmreiBahr
@AKellerGEW
@HRK_aktuell
@starkwatzinger
Wie ist das erklärte Ziel "Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft verbessern" bitte mit einer "Senkung der Höchstbefristungsdauer auf 3 Jahre" für Postdocs vereinbar?
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As the summer semester begins, I'm sharing the syllabus I developed for the postgrad seminar I'm teaching:
"Palestine - From the Mandate Period to the Present"
Looking fwd to the discussions with my students
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This is what Germany's "feminist foreign policy" looks like: rejecting a humanitarian ceasefire. No surprise that the Berlin think-tank
@feministfp
didn't say a word since 7th October...
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Die Leute aus dem Sylt Video sind genau diese Hamburger Bonzenkinder, die sagen, "das war nur ironisch gemeint" & "bin kein Rassist, mein Dönermann kennt meinen Namen" & "ich hatte schonmal eine N-Wort als Freundin"
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Worten folgen Taten. Das Framing um Yuvals und Basels Rede aus dem Berliner Politik-&Mediensumpf zeigt seine Auswirkungen vor Ort. Das ist das reale Ergebnis eines Diskurses der hier von allen möglichen Seiten befeuert wird. Shame on you Germany
A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German
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My proposal to teach a post-grad class next semester on "Palestine: from the Mandate period to today" got accepted. Now I'm really looking fwd to building the syllabus
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This piece from the
@routledgebooks
Handbook on Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021) is a great & concise introduction to Marxist theory and political movements in colonial contexts; comparing the cases of South Africa & Algeria. Highly recommended
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If you want to learn about Walter Rodney, his life and thought, the application of Marxism to a non-western context & underdevelopment, then listen to this episode of the Upstream Podcast 🎧
OUT TODAY! 🎧
we spoke w/
@HalfAtlanta
&
@blackleftaf
about the life and work of Walter Rodney: pan-africanism, marxism, underdevelopment, guerrilla intellectualism, and much more
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Dieser Text ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie sich der kurdischen Frage nur bedient wird, wenn man den eigenen identitätspolitischen Standpunkt zu begründen versucht. Dass die historische Analyse & Analogie hier komplett falsch ist, eh klar
Von der Welt im Stich gelassen: Nicht die Palästinenser sind das von der Weltgemeinschaft unfair behandelte Volk, sondern die Kurden.
#Kommentar
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Wie nennt man das wenn man einem Gegenstand kritisch gegenüber ist, aber in die Situation kommt diesen zu verteidigen, sobald es extrem dumme und rechte Kritiken an genau diesem Gegenstand gibt?
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The introduction to Khalidi's "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" is really one of the best introductions of an academic/ historical book I've read
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Some books that I found helpful, with a collective memory & oral history lens
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Remembering Halabja, 16 March 1988. Remembering also means working towards a present & future in which all relations and conditions enabling genocidal violence will ultimately be abolished.
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Leute in Kiel:
spreche heute an der CAU zu "Klassenverhältnisse und (Unter-)Entwicklung im (post-)kolonialen Kontext:
Ein Vergleich marxistischer Ansätze aus dem Globalen Süden"
(18:15:
Hörsaal 4, Olshausenstr. 75)
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Today I listened to
@NathanThrall
on his book "A day in the life of Abed Salama"
@edbookfest
. The audience (mostly over 50 years old & white) was so supportive and empathetic. You immediately feel the difference when you're outside of Germany...
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@wrkclasshistory
You should also include the rebellion of enslaved people from Africa in 9th century Iraq
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Listen to this Rojava University lecture by H. Bozarslan on the state of violence in the middle east. A good example of how one can think about Palestine & Kurdistan at the same time. Great moderation by
@rosaburc
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Das ist einfach die typische deutsche Islamwiss. Studentin, die ihre partikularem Erfahrung im Auslandssemester in einem arab. Land zu ihrer ganzen Identität & universellen Erfahrung macht. Nur hier nicht positiv orientalistisch verklärt, sondern negativ. Stfu
@hahauenstein
@smandel_8
Warst du schon mal im Westjordanland? Im Gazastreifen? Hast du schon mit Palästinensern in einer WG gelebt? Nein! Ach so. Ich schon. Aber erzähl gern weiter.
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ending my first year on this platform with a last Fanon quote...it's astonishing to what degree this resonates with the current situation
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Looking fwd to teaching a postgrad class I developed for this summer semester, starting in April: "Past & Present of the Kurds in Syria & Iraq". This is my syllabus, can't wait to get into reading and hopefully have productive discussions with the students:
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Not to forget, obviously, the repression against the political left historically since '79
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Excerpts from Fanon's political writings in the "Alienation & Freedom" volume
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@_Garrulus
Ich dachte mit dem Bürgergeld sollte es weniger staatliche Disziplinierung und Sanktionierung von Menschen die keiner Lohnarbeit nachgehen (können) geben lol
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Nach "Feministischer Außenpolitik" kommt als nächstes Branding dann "Dekoloniale Außenpolitik"
Addressing our colonial history is not just a matter of justice – it also makes us stronger. It’s the only way we can build global partnerships based on trust for security & peace: openly, honestly, with a willingness to reflect upon the past & inspire our actions for the future.
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Interested in Fanon studies?
Some of the works I'm engaging with for my contribution to a Fanon themed workshop later this year. I'm particularly interested in Fanon's notion of "stretching Marxism" in the colonial context. Any further recommendations for readings on the subject?
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Können wir uns endlich darauf einigen, dass die deutsche Umschrift von ج mit Dsch extrem hässlich ist
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I'm not sure if this is the most intelligent way of organising your literature...😐
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Today's book: Sara Salem's Anticolonial Afterlives (2020)
@saramsalem
. A reading of hegemony in postcolonial Egypt through a Gramscian-Fanonian lens. Having read the introduction, I can't wait to get through the rest of this book 📖
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Getting back into reading after some weeks off, this seems like a good piece to begin with...
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So they can target an individual through a window in a distant country, but next door they take hundreds as "collateral damage" each time?
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Interesting book, with a promising chapter on the revolutionary role of the "Lumpenproletariat" in the context of anti-colonial struggle as well as the black liberation movement in the US
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As expected, following the
@berlinale
speeches stating the obvious and reasonable facts, the usual suspects of German discourse are having a mental breakdown...again.
Looking fwd to watching "No other Land" by
@yuval_abraham
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@hahauenstein
Ich hatte schon an anderer Stelle darauf hingewiesen: der hier konstruierte Widerspruch zwischen Hijab & Jin Jiyan Azadi ist Ausdruck einer (deutschen) Projektion, die sehr wenig mit der gelebten Realität (in Kurdistan) zu tun hat.
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Es gibt vieles was zB aus marx. Perspektive an Postkolonialer Theorie zu kritisieren ist, aber wenn ich diese rechtslib. & antid. Hysterie gg. alles was "PoCo" ist sehe, dann bin ich full on im defensive & apologetic mode
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Lest die neue
@ErneuerungZ
mit thematischen Schwerpunkt zum Begriff der "Überausbeutung". Mit einer konzeptuellen Einführung v.
@JaninaPuder
&
@BafiKush
& E. Roldán-Mendivil 🤓
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Tuning in now, after having read Gibson's chapters on (anti-)colonial violence in "Fanon - The Postcolonial Imagination" 🔥
Our episode on Fanon’s dialectic of violence is out now!
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From my father's book shelves: Arabic translation of Hanna Batatu's classical work on Iraq's old social classes, incl. a whole book on the communist party
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Preparing my Kurdish Studies class next week from an Italian village is def. a different kind of experience
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my bookshelf is still lacking 'les damnés de la terre' & 'معذبو الارض'
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Teaching Khalidi's "Palestinian Identity" this week. A remarkable chapter on early 20th C. formation of pal. national identity, with all its historical shifts and evolutions in that period.
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Es wird interessant sein zu sehen, wie die Bundesregierung mit Meloni, Le Pen usw gute Beziehungen pflegt, das antisemitische Fundament dieser politischen Projekte ignoriert, und im inneren für falsche Likes Abschiebungen durchführen oder Einbürgerungen verwehren wird
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Academic writing is so humbling. Building your own little thoughts on that impressive body of already existing scholarship...
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A three-day festival celebrating Kurdish culture & music
@elbphilharmonie
in my hometown Hamburg ❤️ who's gonna join?
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"Let us recognise our intertwined destinies and forge a path towards true transnational feminist solidarity with our dear comrades in Palestine."
Read this powerful statement embodying a true sense of internationalist solidarity ✊🏼
"We've learned the lesson of resistance & solidarity against systems of oppression from those who take to the streets in Palestine under Israeli occupation, our comrades in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, & our Kurdish sisters in Rojava..."
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Excited for all those accounts here that spent the last three months in denial (or worse) to now slightly shift their position, tame their tone, focus on other issues...hoping that no one will remember.
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With all eyes on Rafah, don't forget that this has been going on for 8 months with impunity. The delayed shifts in discourse & policy won't save the West from its deeply entangled complicity in all of this. Germany is complicit.
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