Jetzt wird die Sarrazin-Geschichte offenbar neu geschrieben: Zum neueren Rechtsruck/Zur Faschisierung gehört, dass ihre vormaligen (und ja immer nur zur Hälfte) diskreditierten "Vordenker" rehabilitiert und rückwirkend anerkannt werden, damit es in der Gegenwart ideologisch auch wieder passt.

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 7d ago

Die ZEIT entschuldigt sich bei Thilo Sarrazin, dass sie damals seine eugenischen Auslassungen kritisch kommentiert hat, sowas komme nicht wieder vor, schliesslich seien die Erkenntnisse der Rassenhygiene ja jetzt der allgemein anerkannte Forschungsstand, sorry nochmal #Faschisierung

Half Way through this illuminating book by @brankomilan.bsky.social. I really like how the author combines intellectual history with contemporary economic analysis. Probably the most important work in 2026 to understand the present state of Capitalism globally?

These cowards are so scared of Blackrock investors leaving Berlin that they will BAN any possible federal implementation of a constitutional article for socialization of housing, even when passed by popular referendum. Welcome to the capitalist state. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-...

„Wir wollen bauen, nicht enteignen“: Bund untersagt Ländern Verstaatlichungen von Wohnraum

Union und SPD haben sich in der Nacht auf ein Reformpaket verständigt. Die Passage zur Wohnungsbaupolitik enthält einen für Berlin wichtigen Passus.

tagesspiegel.de

It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

These are the numbers being cut from Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter:

Latest addition to the Library, excited to read

»Revolutionary Journalism in Lebanon: 1925-1975« by Daher al-Akkari, Dar al-Farabi, Beirut 1975 (found at Asien-Afrika-Institut in Hamburg)

Terrific read by Asli Bali in @bostonreview.bsky.social : "today’s landscape is one in which the United States … remains powerful enough to break things but is increasingly unable to stabilize the aftermath of its rampage." www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...

Object Lessons

The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.

bostonreview.net

This work goes back now more than a decade. In 2011/2012, when some were screaming “critical whiteness” in full swing, we were trying to figure out the possibilities of anti-racist solidarities and political urban blackness. It was before the murder of Trayvon Martin, /1

I’m very grateful to be part of @merip.bsky.social’s new special issue on Campus Politics: Palestine and the New University Order. You can read Jannis Grimm and my article ‘The Palestine Test for German Universities’ here: www.merip.org/2026/04/the-... @interactfu.bsky.social

Middle East Research and Information Project@merip.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

I've reviewed Zainab Saleh's book Political Undesirables Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (2026). I highly recommend reading the book (and my review)

The Precariousness of Citizenship: the Jewish and Kurdish Question in Iraq

Book Review of Zainab Saleh's Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2026)

open.substack.com

I've reviewed Zainab Saleh's book Political Undesirables Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (2026). I highly recommend reading the book (and my review)

The Precariousness of Citizenship: the Jewish and Kurdish Question in Iraq

Book Review of Zainab Saleh's Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2026)

open.substack.com

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

What building an Afro-Asian Solidarity reading list looks like (work in progress)

“Because Gulf-produced chemicals now sustain everything from factories in China to farms in South America,” writes Adam Hanieh, “disruption in the region ripples outward through industries and food systems across continents.”

Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh

Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which

nybooks.com

Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November. Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 5mo ago

www.thedial.world/articles/new... - new from the always-excellent @justinsalhani.bsky.social

I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:

I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:

I'll be speaking at King's with @triofrancos.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh in a couple of weeks 23 March 2026 17:30 to 19:30 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...

Who Owns the Energy Transition? Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers with Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami | King's College London

Join Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami for a discussion on how to think of climate politics in the context of changing energy networks, imperialism, and the remaking of the world order.

kcl.ac.uk

Zwischen großflächigen Evakuierungsanordnungen und Solidarität, während die Angst vor dem, was noch kommt, alle im Land umtreibt. Für das zenith Magazin habe ich Eindrücke aus #Beirut, #Libanon zusammengefasst. Zum Nachlesen: magazin.zenith.me/de/gesellsch...

Helfen und Bangen in Beirut

Das dichtbesiedelte Gebiet im Süden der libanesischen Hauptstadt wird in etwa von einer Million Menschen bewohnt. Viele von ihnen sammeln sich auf den Straßen Beiruts, während die Angst vor dem, was n...

magazin.zenith.me

Walid Khalidi, an exceptional Palestinian scholar and one of the most important memory-holders of Palestine has passed away.

What people in Tehran woke up to. They are breathing this now. This war has to end before it’s too late for all of us.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#Iran - The oil depots of Aghdasiyeh on fire Sarah Ramani is posting on IG www.instagram.com/sarahrmni

This is the first strike during this war that they hit the inner circle of Beirut. Until now, this area has been considered a safe neighborhood and district. Many of the displaced built up their shelters nearby at the Corniche. Horrific. #Lebanon #Beirut

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ramada hotel in Beirut’s Raouche targeted with an Israeli drone. 3 killed and 6 injured so far

Please support this campaign, organised by my good friend Rani in Beirut:

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...

Revolution without illusion

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.

africasacountry.com

Back to teaching my class on Nation, Class, and Religion in the Middle East. This week's reading is on striking working women in Lebanon's tobacco industry in the 1940s. The author links anti-colonialism, class, nation, and gender in an interesting & productive way

Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100? Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here: mailchi.mp/09af158365d9... #Fanon100

This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥 Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation buff.ly/gASaoZD