Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Poetry as Performance Art "Clash of Civilizations": The Mother of all Pretexts Why the US is a Self-Serving Empire?

Che Guevara in the Middle East Forty Years Since the Death of Che Guevara

The Struggle for Land that Never Ends Rural Egypt returns to the ancien regime

Pakistani's Army '$20bn' Business

"The Yacoubian Building"

"The U.S. news media have very little appetite for stories about Arabs who don't carry knives, shoot machine guns, launch grenades, or talk on gold-plated cell phones". Middle-east correspondent Rami G. Khouri " News about the Egyptian workers' struggle never reaches European media." Eg ypt : The Victory of Mahalla Workers Exposes the Weakness of Mubarak's Regime The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra Background interview and article >> Listen to the interview >> Read article US Imperialism and the Iranian Regime: Ready for War or Peace? >> Listen to the talk , part of MEP show of 04 October 2007 Recent interviews Middle East Panorama on Resonance FM Radio Wednesday between 21:00 to 22:00 GMT (repeated on Sunday between 12:00 - 13:00 GMT) 104.4 FM or www.resonancefm.com

Articles Science and the Islamic World Between Imperialism and Islamism

The Iranian President Speaks at Columbia Univeristy

The Privatizing of the Israeli Mind. Poet Aharon Shabtai discusses the influence of the Occupation on Israeli culture

ORB: More Than One Million Iraqi Deaths Bush-Linked Texas Company Signs Oil Deal with Iraqi Kurds Hundreds Held in US Anti-war March France: Prepare for War with Iran Audio - Articles - Books - Shows Films

" The crisis is so intense today that never in the history of Pakistan has anyone seen such confusion, perplexity and bewilderment in society. The media, pseudo-intellectuals and analysts are adding to this confusion. They are raising all kinds of secondary issues, such as the judicial crisis, the Red Mosque, the Musharraf-Benazir deal, the return and re-exile of Nawaz Sharif, the uniform of the President, frivolous statements by American diplomats and presenting them as key issues in the minds of the masses... "In the last three years the section of the ruling class in power has had loans worth Rs.33 billion waived and at the same time it has received subsidies to the tune of Rs.24 billion. This blatant theft of Rs.57 billion was to the benefit of just 1122 feudal lords, industrialists and businessmen. Among them 11 industrialists alone plundered Rs12.3 billion in 2003 from the State." Read full article

US Professor Critical of Zionism Resigns >> Norman Finkelstein's talk , London, December 2005 (57 ms, audio) Finkelstein is author of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Simitism and the Abuse of History (2005). 9/11 and the Functions of the ‘War on Terror’ SA Interviews a Student Activist in Lebanon The US Will Lose War Regardless What It Does

Pakistan Under Siege (Zia Mian) Behind Bush's Latest Anti-Iranian Threats (Muriel Mirak-Weissbach)

Watch Play War : A three-minute long film in which two kids are playing with army figures and arguing about whether the civilians are “enemy insurgents” or “innocent civilians.”

Up in Arms (Maurice Lemoine) Arabic as a Terrorist Language (Anthony DiMaggio) The UN: An Instrument of Terror (Ghali Hassan) Audio - Articles - Books - Shows Films

Interview with Joel Kovel , author of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (Pluto Press 2007). Kovel is currently editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism. “The Overcoming of Zionism is its dissoultion,” states Kovel. Here he elaborates on issues like the linkage between Zionism and capital, class struggle and nationalism, and the inviability of a two-state solution. An interview conducted by Nadim Mahjoub for Resonance FM Radio, 04 July 2007 >> Quote: "No state is given to a people on a silver platter." (The Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann)

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Milan Rai, an anti-war activist and author of 7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War , and Martin Jacques, columnist, writer and currently a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Centre, speak on 7/7 bombings, war, terrorism, the Muslims, and the media. On July 02 Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets, was sentenced to six months in prison "for violating a ban on speaking to foreigners." MEP conducted an interview with Vanunu in April 2005. Listen to the repeat and to Yoel Cohen, author of The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu and the Bomb. >> Yoel Cohen's interview Quote: " Iraq has reached advanced societal breakdown, with ethnic cleansing on a regional, neighbourhood and even street-by-street basis. There has been a mass exodus of its professionals and manage...

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) "Can the Arab World be Turned into Gaza's Jailers?" asks the British journalist Jonathan Cook. The author of "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State" argues that the aim of the sanctions by Israel and the US was not to bring about the fall of Hamas. Cook also draws parallels between Iraq and Gaza. >> Listen to the interview "British and American collusion in the pillaging of Iraq's heritage is a scandal that will outlive any passing conflict," writes Simon Jenkins in the Guardian . >> Read the article Music of war and resistance by Zaineb Shaath, Billy Bragg, Boris Vian, Tom Lehrer, the Group of Musical Research, Marcel Khalife ...

Middle East Panorama show on Resonance FM 104.4 Every Friday 14:00 - 15:00 London Time (GMT) Welcome to Palestine : How do we deal with a coup d'etat by an elected government? Robert Fisk. See also Palestine in Suicide by Roni Ben Efrat Hollow Land - Israel's Architecture of Occupation . A talk by Eyal Weizman, architect and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and author of "Hollow Land". "Devotees of the latest nuances of postmodernist styles," wrote Stirling Howieson in his review of 'Hollow Land', "will be disappointed with Weizman's book, for this is not about changing architectural fashions in hot arid climates. Hollow Land is the work of an architect chronicling the physical occupation and colonisation of Palestine by Zionism - in all its forms." The School of African and Oriental Studies, London 13 June 2007. >> Listen to the whole show Quote: " When the first ...