I visited a school in Froun, south Lebanon, where displaced people are sheltering and spoke to the principal about how they will restart the school year on Sept 15. “We will reopen the school [for students], but will not abandon the displaced people,” he said. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Israel’s war leaves Lebanon’s schools balancing students and the displaced

Schools in Lebanon are set to start on September 15, but many still host people displaced by Israel's war.

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I am one of three editors for the series Studies in Comparative Political Theory published by Oxford University Press. We would love to receive your manuscripts. All the details are here: global.oup.com/academic/con...

Humeira Iqtidar's book, Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq, Critical Theory and The Global South, is now out. It builds on oral histories of refugees from the Tribal Areas of Pakistan to offer a non-statist vision of justice foregrounding the agency of the oppressed. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🎙️The China-native generation: In his latest podcast episode, @markhleonard.bsky.social discusses with @loubnaelamine.bsky.social & Cobus van Staden how younger generations in Africa & the Middle East view China, the West and the future. Listen here to the full discussion⤵️ buff.ly/yr8aEYr @ecfr.eu

The China-native generation – European Council on Foreign Relations

Mark Leonard welcomes Loubna El Amine and Cobus van Staden to explore how younger generations in Africa and the Middle East are shaping perceptions of China, th

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I am thrilled to be starting as Associate Editor of Political Theory at Perspectives on Politics together with Steven Klein. I admire the broad-minded work that PoP publishes and the vision of its two amazing editors, Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman. Do send us your manuscripts!

Very happy to be joining Loubna El Amine as the new political theory co-editors at Perspectives on Politics. Perspectives has been a vital forum for broad-minded political theory, and we're looking forward to continuing that tradition. Send us work that you're excited about!

‘A woman had come out onto her balcony to shout at a group of noisy children when a missile struck and threw her several metres through the air. She survived. Several others were killed, including the children.’ Zain Samir reports from Lebanon. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Zain Samir · War on the Shia: In Lebanon

In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and...

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‘I arrived to take my exam after half the allotted time had already passed. I hadn’t been delayed by bombing, or even by a power cut, but by a worn-out banknote that no one was willing to accept.’ Hassan Ayman Herzallah in Gaza, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Loose Change

I arrived to take my exam after half the allotted time had already passed. I hadn’t been delayed by bombing, or even...

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What is the philosophy of work and democracy that follows from the historic labour movement? In my new article, I develop a democratic defense of labour unions and show how it leads to a distinctive vision of industrial democracy. Forthcoming in the APSR stevenmklein.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Well, that was fun! We organised the second Graduate Conference on Political Theory last week and it was such a great day. Thank you to all panellists, the senior academics who helped by chairing panels, and to Dr Bernardo Zacka for a most creative and engaging keynote! @kingspoltheory.bsky.social

The second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference will be held next month, details below. It was a brilliant event last year, the organising committee are amazing, and I can't recommend it enough. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-politi...

KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Join us for the second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference.

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KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference, 22 May 2026 Three panels on coercion, responsibility, and transformation Keynote by Bernardo Zacka (MIT): 'Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries: On doing political theory with an ethnographic sensibility' Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-politi...

KCL Political Theory Graduate Conference 2026

Join us for the second King's College London Political Theory Graduate Conference.

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Glad to see that Megaphone News is finally on Bluesky! Most of the video reports you’ve seen me share from Lebanon have been by them. If you want solid, independent and leftwing news and analysis from Lebanon, give them a follow. @megaphonenews.bsky.social

‘Last week, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when Israeli drones struck the car in front of them. The women sought shelter in a building that was then destroyed by a direct hit.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Selma Dabbagh | Displaced

Last Wednesday, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when...

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‘Magyar is a conservative, but also the only hope for defeating the regime; hence he has effectively absorbed most of what used to be liberal and left-wing opposition forces.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the Hungarian elections, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Jan-Werner Müller | At a Budapest Scruton Café

For Orbán and his allies, much is at stake beyond losing political power. Fidesz leaders and cronies like to live like...

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‘The sun was out in London and people were going about their daily lives as if all was well in the world. In Lebanon, meanwhile, people went to sleep to the smell of smoke and woke up to the sound of drones.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Loubna El Amine | A Hundred Airstrikes in Ten Minutes

Yesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon...

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‘My friends and relatives were safe where they were – my parents in the apartment where they have lived in central Beirut for almost fifty years. Yesterday, I was not so sure anymore. And they were not either.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

‘After the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon started heading back to the south. At around 2 p.m., Israel hit the country with a hundred airstrikes in less than ten minutes.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Loubna El Amine | A Hundred Airstrikes in Ten Minutes

Yesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon...

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‘One cousin sent a short video showing plumes of smoke rising over Beirut. One explosion was so close to my aunt’s house that all she could see from her balcony was smoke.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the continuing bombing in Lebanon, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Loubna El Amine | A Hundred Airstrikes in Ten Minutes

Yesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon...

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‘The sun was out in London and people were going about their daily lives as if all was well in the world. In Lebanon, meanwhile, people went to sleep to the smell of smoke and woke up to the sound of drones.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Loubna El Amine | A Hundred Airstrikes in Ten Minutes

Yesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon...

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Meanwhile, Israel unleashes more than a 100 attacks in less than 10 minutes on Lebanon. Hundreds dead and wounded.

Breaking: Hundreds feared dead in massive wave of Israeli strikes in Lebanon: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-08/hundreds-feared-dead-israeli-strikes-lebanon/106544376

Breaking: Hundreds feared dead in massive wave of Israeli strikes in Lebanon

Israeli and Lebanese media are citing the Lebanese Red Cross in reporting the death toll could be as high as 300, with many more injured.

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‘The killing​ of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a number of other leading officials, in the first few hours of the Iran War has confirmed that assassination is a routine tool of Israeli policy.’ Andrew Cockburn on the legacy of Mossad’s assassination strategy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Andrew Cockburn · Beware the mattress: Mossad’s Kill List

Mossad relied heavily on assorted European security agencies for intelligence on Palestinian activities. Not only did...

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“The possible consequences of the current war,” writes Adam Hanieh, are ”far more catastrophic than can be gleaned from the gyrations of oil prices alone—especially for those living in the Global South.”

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

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“When pressed about...attacks on medical facilities and other civilian infrastructure,” writes Neve Gordon, “Israel and the US have repeatedly reached for responses out of the Gaza

The Gaza Doctrine | Neve Gordon

On Friday, March 13, nearly two weeks into the Lebanese front of “Operation Roaring Lion,” Israeli forces bombed Burj Qalaouiyah, a village in the

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Some time ago, I wrote this essay about the south of Lebanon through the lens of my mother's village and my father's village. Dweir is being heavily bombed; we do not know much about what Israel has been doing to Chaqra, including to our house there. www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/my-...

‘War with Iran is a long-held ambition of Netanyahu’s, but Gaza is where he and his generals designed the playbook that is now being followed in that war.’ Online early from the next issue: Amjad Iraqi on Israel’s military playbook. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Amjad Iraqi · Short Cuts: From Gaza to Iran

War with Iran is a long-held ambition of Netanyahu’s, but Gaza is where he and his generals designed the playbook that...

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“War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi.” —Loubna El Amine on Lebanon

Lebanon’s Negations | Loubna El Amine

Since Monday, March 2, Israel’s armed forces have launched daily airstrikes on Lebanon. Begun after Hezbollah fired a small volley of rockets into Israel

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I wrote about Lebanon in the NYRB: “A strong state cannot emerge out of an all-out assault, let alone out of occupation. War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi."

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Loubna El Amine on Israel’s war on Lebanon and the country’s tenuous modus vivendi