Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Capital.150 part one: measuring the past to gauge the future

The Palestinians who didn't leave during the Nakba

The American origin of the United Nations

The Museum of Colonialism

There is an irony in this, as Farris observes. The European feminists’ insistence that migrant women’s autonomy would be furthered by the work of domestic service defined as liberating the very household drudgery that these feminists had long sought to escape. There is both a racist and a sexist element to this, Farris says, because “they reinforce the conditions for the reproduction at the societal level of Muslim and non-Western migrant women’s segregation, traditional gender roles, and the gender injustice they claim to be combating.” The Culture Veil

Couscous, capitalism and neoliberalism in Tunisia

The Case Against Civilization

لماذا لا تستطيع الفلوجة أن تنسى ما جرى؟

UK "Full" employment, but falling incomes

British imperialism, the City of London and brexit

"Like anyone who has lived through war, I dream that future generations will one day be at peace, will abandon the weapons of war. But I know my dream is impossible. As a writer and especially as a veteran, I know that underneath the beautiful green meadows of peace are mountains of bones and ashes from previous wars and, most awful to contemplate, the seeds of future wars." The First Time I met Americans

The Saudi trillions including the Western complicity

Turkey: Atatürk statues attacked

"Baraka wasn’t concerned with whether white musicians imitate black musicians. His quarrel was with a society that allows some to rake in profits at the expense of others, a process that has consistently and aggressive." Why Culture Matters

The UK economy since 2007 — an economic record of comparative mediocrity

Capital expansion has no religion "The treatment of the Rohingya is sometimes described as a crime against humanity. But we need to interrogate its sources. If we bring in some of the larger trends affecting modest rural communities, two major facts stand out. One is the far larger numbers of Buddhist smallholders who have also been expelled from their land in the last few years. And the other is the fact that large-scale timber extraction, mining, and water projects are replacing the expelled." Is Rohingya persecution caused by business interests rather than religion?

The big data revolution can revive the planned economy

Back to university Verso student reading list

Yes. An Egyptian filmmaker is planning a rejoinder to the Hollywood blockbuster  American Sniper , with a film focusing on the "other side of the story" - the Iraqi fighter said to have killed dozens of American soldiers during the occupation. ' Iraqi Sniper': An Egyptian film-maker plans a response to American Sniper

الكتابة كفعل تحرري عند غسان كنفاني وإميل سيزار (Writing as a liberating act in the writings of Ghassan Kanafani and Aimé Césaire)