Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Locals living in cars because they cannot afford rent Related Melilla migrant deaths:  Who's to blame? Of Pets and Men

A valuable insight on Cuba since the early 1990s. I find it strange though that someone trained in ‘Marxist historiography’ calls the pre-1989 eastern European countries / the USSR ‘socialist countries’ and defends the ‘Western’ sanctions on Russia.

  “In foreign reporters’ postcards there is a banalization of Iraqis’ agony, a mockery of their intelligence, a minimization of their grievances to corruption and poor services. … a horde of diaspora ‘scholars’ from Washington DC to London are committed participants in the normalization of the  abnormal  and the concealment of  ruination .” A very good reflection by Nabil Salih

 It is time to end extractive tourism

Saudi Aramco made almost $47bn profit in the first half of 2019 . We know where most of that profit goes. A genuine revolution means overthrowing a family-regime that has been squandering a huge wealth at home, including purchasing of weapons, and capital flight to the Western banks and using that wealth instead in real development across the Arab region, doing away with nation states. That would incorporate the Saudi women and other men and women in the Arab countries in the labour market where unemployment in some countries is high and one of the causes of the uprisings and migration.

New Orientalism This sounds like "a bad history" by a new orientalist. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

The First World War in Syria and Palestine

Hipster Colonialism and the 'ruin' of Cuba