لاوان
@Lauan_al
working on Colonialism, Capitalism, and the intellectual history of Marxism in the MENA region & beyond
It's finally out: my conversation with Sardar Saadi @asoschia on Reading and Translating Fanon, just published in Kurdish Studies Journal 3 (2025) @Kurdish_Journal
Re-reading Fanon's "Year 5 of the Algerian revolution/A dying colonialism": the nuance in his analysis of the European settlers is interesting, compared to the Wretched of the Earth. The book was mainly directed to a Left audience in Europe, which may explain the shift in tone
1300 page history of capitalism from 1450 to the present—forthcoming from Sven Beckert: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541160/c…
It's been said many times by many people: given a choice between fighting the left or the right, too many liberals will always choose the former, and at any cost - including liberalism itself falling apart in the process.
Great to see a (generous!) review of The Spectre of State Capitalism in the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books: J D Evans on Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon's The Spectre of State Capitalism marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22211_…
Fanon Today – Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives | International Symposium | Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 - Berlin | July 22-23, 2025 | For more information, visit here: rosalux.de/en/event/es_de…
Dina Wahba, in this piece, really hits the spot with her critique of the myth of academic neutrality in German middle eastern studies 🎯
Germany’s shrinking space for debate on Palestine reveals the dangers of academic neutrality. Dina Wahba argues how both Western and Islamic traditions remind us: knowledge comes with ethical responsibility. Read the full article via link below👇 qantara.de/en/node/44421
Am 21. Juli erscheint bei @suhrkamp dieser Band, der zwei Werke von Fanon zusammenbindet: L'an V de la révolution algérienne & Les damnés de la terre. Ersteres ist auch Gegenstand des neuen Buches von Azzedine Haddour (Juni 2025) @PlutoPress
IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Bei keinem anderen Satz fühlen sich deutsche linke so schlau wie bei "aber Sozialisten in USA sind eigentlich nur Sozialdemokraten"
New Israeli directive expedites ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta The military order removes the last legal barriers to the wholesale demolition and displacement of 12 Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank. By @basel_adra and @yuval_abraham. 972mag.com/masafer-yatta-…
Statement by a collective comprised of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists: "Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us." de.crimethinc.com/2025/06/23/wom…
Reading now: Nadia Belhadj on spontaneity & organisation in revolutionary Algiers
This really is as good as everyone says it is…
What are you reading this weekend?
New book on Fanon: "Azzedine Haddour explores themes of gender, revolutionary struggle and the decolonisation of the mind in the first comprehensive study of Fanon's lesser known work, Studies in a Dying Colonialism (1959)". 📚 📖
