An original, Marxist appraisal of cosmopolitanism, religion and politics, and Edward Said's Orientalism thesis. Will be seen as a key text for readers in political science, international relations, political economy, Marxist studies, and cultural studies.

The London bombings of 7 July 2005 revived the debates that raged after September 11 2001. This work develops a counter-thesis, namely that the clashes we are witnessing do not oppose civilizations, but their dark sides. Bush administration doesn't embody

Drawing on previously unseen sources in multiple languages, Achcar offers a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world, and in the process defusing an international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab-Western understanding.

Provides an assessment of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. This work describes the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, and its relation to the country's other religious communities and political forces. It analyzes the regional roles of Syria, Iran and Hamas as well as the politics of US and Europe.

"The people want ...": the first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters in 2011 revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by their demands. In this landmark work, noted Middle East analyst Gilbert Achcar assesses the roots and dynamics of the Arab uprisings, and analyses the specific socio-economic features that hinder the region's development. Achcar also sheds light on the nature and role of the movements that use Islam as a political banner and the oil monarchies that sponsor them. With incisive and...

The destruction that has been rained on Gaza has been seen and accepted by many commentators as a vengeful overreaction to the reckless Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023. As if the annihilation has come about, perhaps even by accident. This book argues that the new catastrophe that has befallen the Palestinian people is in fact the culmination of a decades-long pattern that runs parallel with Israel’s inexorable shift to the Right. The lethal and destructive consequences of the Gaza catastrophe are far greater than the Nakba of 1948. The significance of a war waged by an advanced...