A DEATH MUCH DISSECTED
May 4th, 2011 § 2 Comments
Too much probably has already been written and said about Osama bin Laden’s death. Here is a fairly random roundup of some of the responses in the English-language press from the past 48 hours:
CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF REVOLT
February 27th, 2011 Comments Off
More writing worth reading on the Arab revolts
Juan Cole on the Great Arab Revolt
Hossam el-Hamalawy on why the revolution is unfinished
Joel Beinin on labour militancy and the Egyptian revolt
Strikes fuelled the Egyptian revolt. Now the revolt is fuelling strikes.
Issandr El Amrani on the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’
Husam Tammam and Patrick Haenni on the role of Islam
Seyla Benhabib on religion, revolution and the public square
Adam Shatz on the sweeping away of Western patterns of thought
Dan O’Huiginn on EU military exports to Libya
Jonathan Wright on why tribal affiliations in Libya may not be so important
‘The first test of any would-be interventionist is this: do no harm.’
CAUGHT IN THE POST-MUBARAK WEB
February 16th, 2011 Comments Off
Essays on and analyses of the post-Mubarak world:
Saba Mahmood on the Architects of the Egyptian Revolution
Olivier Roy on why it has not been an Islamic revolution
Juan Cole on how the labour movement drove the protests
This isn’t 1952 but democrats still need to be wary
Eliis Goldberg wonders if it will be a slow motion coup
‘Bread, social justice and freedom. What’s religious about that?‘
Ned Parker on Egypt’s new breed of Islamists
What next for the Muslim Brotherhood after the uprising?
When the Facebook kids met the generals
Nigel Gibson imagines Fanon in Tahrir Square
Jonathan Wright compares Cairo after Mubarak with Cairo after Sadat
Tom Englehardt on the destruction of Pax Americana
Foreign Policy on the winners and losers of the revolution
CAUGHT IN THE WEB
February 11th, 2011 Comments Off
As Egypt teeters on the brink some writing worth reading
Hossam Tanam on why the religious establishments have been the biggest losers in the Egyptian revolt
Asef Bayat on the post-Islamic Middle East
El Mahalla el Kubra: The Egyptian mill town from where the revolt began
And more on how Egyptian workers are striking against dictatorship, from Reuters and the New York Times
The Wall Street Journal on The Secret Rally that Sparked an Uprising
Glenn Greenwald on The Egyptian Mirror
Nicholas Kristoff asks: Why is democracy good for Americans but not for Egyptians?
Joshua Stacher on Egypt’s democratic mirage
Robert Tait’s 28 hours in the bowels of Mubarak’s torture machine
‘You’ll Be Late for the Revolution!’: An Anthropologist’s Diary of the Egyptian Revolution
Mohammed Bamyeh’s First Impressions from the Field
Popular Committees: Between protecting and policing
Justin Elliot asks: What other dictators does the US support?
CAUGHT IN THE WEB
February 6th, 2011 Comments Off
Little nuggets found while trawling through the Web:
The Wall Street Journal on how Washington and Cairo were blindsided
Yasmine El Rashidi on a day in Tahrir Square
Ian Johnson on Washington’s secret history with the Muslim Brotherhood
Islamists in the Arab world: A policy briefing for the US government
David Swanson on Barack Obama’s imperial war presidency
MJ Akbar on why Pakistan’s problems are in Pakistan’s DNA
John Patrick Leary on Detroit, the urban crisis and ‘ruin porn’
n+1 magazine on the fraud that is anti-elitism
