Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

China's 'New Silk Road' into Europe is about more than money

"When 13th century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi  wrote  “See how the polestar is ogling Leo,” he was probably referring to the constellation, not  Titanic  star Leonardo DiCaprio. Or maybe the mystic was augering his legacy’s unfortunate future in the hands of  Gladiator  writer David Franzoni, who is working on a big-budget biopic of the poet, and who wants DiCaprio for the starring role." An article on foreignpolicy.com

Mitterrand's War

Richard Wolff and the Deepening Crisis

Venezuela: Near the End?

Designing for the One Percent

The Mercenaries University

Liberals and Trumpism Why I'm Not a Liberal

Remembering Mohamed Ali Mohamed Ali and the Black Panthers

Al-Azhar University

Hopping in his Matchbox

“It is an astonishing sign of the depth of Eurocentrism that so many European scholars persist, in the face of all the evidence, in regarding nationalism as a European invention.” — Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.” Verso, 2011

‘17,000 islands of imagination’: discovering Indonesian literature