Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MIR-HOSSEINI Ziba
The decision to award the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, the intrepid Iranian human rights lawyer and former judge, took everyone by surprise — not least Ebadi herself. On the morning of October 10, when the award was announced, the Nobel winner was about to leave Paris, where she had (…)
, by ALI Tariq
The American expedition to Baghdad, and world-wide reactions to the new imperium. From mass demonstrations against the war to the diplomatic hypocrisies colluding with it. The UN as framework of blockade and intervention yesterday, and mask of reconstruction tomorrow.
On 15 February 2003, (…)
, by ALI GONDAL Zulfikar, AMIN Hussin, BELLO Walden, DOCENA Herbert, ROSALES Etta, SARI Dita Indah
Damascus,
The Asian Peace Mission to Baghdad denounces in the strongest terms possible the US decision to launch unilateral military action against the peoples of Iraq.
Both US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair offer as the prime justification fot their coming war (…)
, by CHETRIT Sami Shalom
On March 21, a conference was held at Beit Hillel, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem celebrating 30 years since the founding of the ‘Black Panthers’ movement: a movement whose emergence marked a turning point in the Mizrahim struggle for equality in Israel. The conference hall packed with (…)
, by PILGER John
THE American and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the Blair government continues to claim in Parliament that “no final decision has been taken”, Royal Air Force and US fighter bombers have secretly changed tactics and escalated their “patrols” over Iraq to an all-out assault on (…)
, by KHIARI Sadri, TLILI Olfa
In a referendum held on Sunday May 26, 2002, Tunisian President Zine el Abidine ben Ali, in power since 1987, won the right to run for re-election in 2004 and 2009. Under key changes approved in the plebiscite, which drew a 99.52 percent ’yes’ vote according to the régime, presidential term (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
Pure sadness. On the plane from Paris to Tel Aviv last Wednesday, that was the feeling overwhelming me as I thought about the reality of witnessing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at first hand.
Personal memories come back: those of friends from my schooldays in Morocco who, in the 1960s, had (…)
, by SAID Edward
Naguib Mahfouz died yesterday. He was one of the world’s great writers. Here’s what the late Edward Said wrote about him on [Counterpunch] site back in December, 2001. AC / JSC
Before he won the Nobel Prize in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz was known outside the Arab world to students of Arab or Middle (…)
, by SAID Edward
As pressures mount upon the Palestinians and Israel continues its drive to put down the second Intifada, what kind of leadership does the PNA provide? Excoriating its irresponsibility and corruption, Edward Said issues a call for Arafat’s departure.
Israeli pressure on Palestinians was (…)
, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme
[31 July 2001] What started in Hassi Messaoud, Algeria on the night of July 13-14, 2001 is NOT one more crime/violence/violation in the wartime situation that our country has now become famous for. A qualitative change has taken place. For the first time one has witnessed crimes committed not (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, KAHN Marcel-Francis, TOMIEWICZ Stanislas, VIDAL-NAQUET Pierre
THE FOLLOWING TEXT (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures.
CITIZENS OF THE countries in which we live and citizens of the (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Tikva Honig-Parnass. This spring 2000 interview, originally written at the time of the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, provides useful background for understanding current events. It was first published in May 2000 in News from Within, a publication of the (…)
, by HABASH Georges
Comrades! What I have lived through over the course of these militant decades, and the rich experience I have acquired is not a matter to be taken for granted. It is your right, and the right of coming generations to review the content and lessons of this experience with all of its many (…)
, by GUINDY Hosny, HEIKAL Mohammad H
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal tells Al-Ahram Weekly how decades after nationalising the Canal and going to war over it, Egyptians have finally re-appropriated Suez
“The truth about Suez was always available but for many years it was ignored, hidden, obfuscated. It is gratifying, perhaps, that now (…)
, by BAYAT Asef
The early 1990s saw a period of renewed urban popular uprisings in Iran, unprecedented since the 1979 revolution. From August 1991 to August 1994, six major upheavals took place in Tehran, Shiraz, Arak, Mashhad, Ghazvin and Tabriz, and there were frequent minor clashes in many other urban (…)
, by SAID Edward
Now that some of the euphoria has lifted, it is possible to re-examine the Israeli-PLO agreement with the required common sense. What emerges from such scrutiny is a deal that is more flawed and, for most of the Palestinian people, more unfavourably weighted than many had first supposed. The (…)
, by HAYNS Joe, MOZZACHIODI Roberto, SERFATY Abraham
As an eighteen-year old member of the Jeunesses Communistes, the youth wing of the Parti Communiste du Maroc (PCM), Abraham Serfaty was imprisoned first by the Vichy régime in Rabat, 1944; he left for France a year after, to study at the country’s pre-eminent engineering school.
Serfaty (…)
, by NIBKIN Saber
The following document was published by “Socializm va Enghelab” (Socialism and Revolution) in 1984. It was written in early 1983 by Saber Nikbin, then a member of the International Executive Committee of the USFI (United Secretariat of the Fourth International), as part of the pre-world congress (…)
, by al-AZM Sadiq Jalal
Al-Azm’s nuanced critique of Edward Said’s “Orientalism” is one of the most read articles on this website. Al-Azm argues that while Said effectively exposes the essentialist and distorted representations of the “Orient” by Western scholars and thinkers, his own presentation of the origins and (…)
, by Matzpen
The text of the open letter was published in Hebrew and Arabic in Matzpen issue 72, December 1974. It was republished in the Matzpen booklet in Arabic “From our struggle against zionism and for socialism“, March 1978, with the following preface:
On March 22, 1968, the Socialist Organization (…)
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