Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Retour sur une légende du désert

Get the good old syringe boys and fill it to the brim We’ve caught another nigger and we’ll operate on him  Let someone take the handle who can work it with a vim Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.  Hurrah. Hurrah. We bring the Jubilee. Hurrah. Hurrah. The Flag that Makes him free.  Shove the nozzle deep and let him taste of liberty Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. An interview with the author and excerpt from the book Related

 Interesting. Édouard Louis's latest book

How European intellectual property hinders affordable medicine

When it comes to the micro and macro the analysis in the article is accurate. However, when it comes to ‘the underlying cause’— ‘neoliberalisation’—it is a mainstream argument. The working of capital and global capital, profitability and capital accumulation—whether by the imperialist states or by Qatar and UAE, for instance—is the underling cause(s). The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the region

 ثورة بلا ثوار: كيف نفهم الربيع العربي

The different ways that workers fight for their rights

“ Sri Lanka —like so many other countries struggling for solvency —remains a colony with administration outsourced to the International Monetary Fund. We still export cheap labor and resources, and import expensive finished goods —the basic colonial model. The country is still divided and conquered by local elites, while real economic control is held abroad. The I.M.F. has extended loans to Sri Lanka 16 times, always with stringent conditions. They just keep restructuring us for further exploitation by creditors.” Sri Lanka Collapsed First, but It Won’ Be the Last By Indrajit Samarajiva  The New York Times,  NYTimes.com   15 August 2022 As a Sri Lankan, watching international news coverage of my country’ economic and political implosion is like showing up at your own funeral, with everybody speculating on how you died. The Western media accuse China of luring us into a debt trap. Tucker Carlson says environmental, social and corporate governance programs killed us. Everyb...

The bombing killed more than 160 civilians

The BBC, for instance, does not commemorate the Rabaa massacre as it does every year with Tiananmen  Square massacre.

A quarter of them have been in the Middle East and Africa

قرأت الكتاب قبل سنوات، ولكن أجدني أعود إليه لأنه من تأليف صادق جلال العظم.    سلمان رشدي وحقيقة الأدب

 The Role of the Rentier Intellectuals Under colonial duress, Muslim public intellectuals were thus the principal agents of changing their own ancestral faith into an unrecognizable site of ideological contestation with what they categorically identified as “the West”—the self-designated code with which the hegemony of colonial modernity faced and stared down the world at large. Factual relation of power between colonial modernity and Islam eventually gave rise to fictive terms of opposition between European colonial ideologues and Muslim public intellectuals. At the threshold of the twenty-first century, and in the immediate aftermath of the cataclysmic events of 9/11, enough remnants of this binary supposition were resuscitated for us to see the psychopathological origin of its formulation, and the political potency of its appeal. To see how this dialectic of generating and sustaining a fabricated hostility between “Islam and the West” has worked over the last two hundred years, ...

The freedom to move and to stay

We have heard a lot the refrain “they hate us.” “In a landmark interview in 1965 Malcolm X was asked by his interlocutor why he preached “hate to meet hate.” Malcolm X denied having ever advocated hate. The white man questioning him persisted that he had. “No,” Malcolm interjects, “that is the guilt complex of the American White Man that is so profound that when you begin to analyze the real condition of the Black Man in America, instead of the American White Man eliminating the causes that create that condition, he tries to cover it up by accusing his accusers of teaching hate.” In that singular moment of rhetorical rebuttal, Malcolm X stages a condition of dialectical reversal, where a Muslim critical thinker reasserts agency and reclaims history, not just by confronting the White Man’s monological premise but by epistemically overcoming the limitations of his moral imagination.” Excerpt From The End of Two Illusions by Hamid Dabashi

One of the architects of the Assad regime’s notorious security apparatus

Fealty to Israel

«صمت من أجل غزة» لمحمود درويش

When the US converts the world into a battlefield, how do Americans know where to draw the line? More precisely put, it is not immensely shocking that a country that inculcates its citizenry with a macho, shoot-’em-up attitude vis-à-vis other human populations might end up with some, well, “murderers” on its hands – particularly when the domestic panorama is one of dystopian capitalism and acute alienation. Capitalism is the culprit