Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“Only once, in 18th and 19th century Britain, did the transformation of energy to coal, transport to railroads and industry to steam power take place via the market co-ordination of investment, without a push from above.” Financial Times, opinion section, ‘For sustainable finance to work, we will need central planning’ , 11 July 2021

“It's a complicated question we've yet to really answer”

Conflicts and commons in the politics of truth Related Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation

Limbo: A story of a Syrian refugee in Scotland

On the pandemic and the vaccine

Finally, some of Mahdi Amel’s writing have been translated to English Selected Writing of Mahdi Amel

Scale of Russian mercenary mission

‘We want trillions to heal our wounds’

Private security and military companies

 التاريخ المنسي لمجازر أمريكا وبريطانيا 

Sudanese communists and aftermath of July 1971 in Kober

It is authoritarian because it is run like a business

The military and the economy in Egypt, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey

On the death cult of capital accumulation

‘The only Black person in the room’

“ I think we need a reconsideration of the whole of the post-1945 period, which is an era in which both authoritarian and semi-democratic governments across the region engaged in massive arms acquisition and then deployed many—in some cases most—of those weapons against their own populations. We usually see this as a process of violent decolonization and then an equally violent postcolonial descent into either authoritarianism or fractured forms of democracy, which is a pattern that of course we can identify elsewhere in the world as well. But actually, when we look through this lens of mass violence, we can see that there are many ways in which this is not a period of decolonization at all. It is a period of  recolonization : a recalibration and a recasting of empire into new shapes, in which superpowers control spaces by combining economic dominance with a deliberate flooding of weaponry in the relevant territory, alongside the careful—and sometimes not so careful—creation of spe...

The revolution of dignity hijacked - an updated background

The focus is on the role of the kafala system in relation to race and domestic labour . However, for a bigger picture that allows us to contextualise all of the above, one should explore  inequality, rentierism and the roots of Lebanon’s 2019 uprising.

On the Island’s diverse present and future