The publication of 'The Satanic Verses' in 1988 sparked mass protests in India and Pakistan, partly for depicting Prophet Mohammed in casual and familiar language
This is the Abstract of the English-language article by Fawwaz Traboulsi on the history, starting from the 1960s and 1970s of the translation into Arabic of Gramsci and its subsequent diffusion and influence. The author looks at the way in which currently neoliberalism has been changing political language in the attempt to bend it to its own purposes.
As Yemen’s conflict rages on, the main obstacle to achieving southern Yemenis’ political aspirations has become rivalries among southern political groups. Here’s where the rivalries come from and how they shape southern Yemen today.
As Yemen’s conflict rages on, the main obstacle to achieving southern Yemenis’ political aspirations has become rivalries among southern political groups. Here’s where the rivalries come from and how they shape southern Yemen today.
Published date: 9 July 2017 20:39 UTC | Last update: 3 years 8 months ago
On 5 July, Algeria celebrated the 55th anniversary of its independence, one that everyone thought was bound to happen. But archives show the event could easily have never happened
In his memoirs,
Portrait of the Young Man in Red, Lebanese Communist militant Fawwaz Traboulsi recounts “his” independence of Algeria. In 1962, he was living, studying and campaigning in England. The Algerian revolution had been at the heart of his activity, so much so that he was sometimes mistaken for an Algerian, he explains.
Fifty-five years on, this independence seems inevitable. However, a recent dive into the archives of 1962 showed me a different angle