Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

  Despite ongoing claims about “ungovernability,” transhistorical blood feuds, or the racialized nature of “the Arab” and “the Muslim,” there is, in fact, nothing exceptional about war and conflict in the Middle East. The region was left with the obscured but violent legacies of notions like the semi-civilized and extraterritoriality. The War on Terror brought these concepts back to center stage. Blowback from weaponized techniques of extraterritoriality impact the United States as well as the Middle East. One hundred and one years after Versailles, the twinned concepts of extraterritoriality and the semi-civilized continue to shape our world in ways that can no longer be overlooked. From Versailles to the War on Terror

  Good points here. However, I don’t agree with this: Those who share love and admiration for a pluralizing world must unite across differences of race, class, gender and theology in their efforts to restore our democracy. The author believes in class collaboration. Class is central in the same system of imperialism he is condemning yet he advocate a unity across differences regardless of class. What sort of democracy is a one that maintains class opression? Biden’s characterisation of Putin applies to ‘Neoliberal Ideologies’, too.

 An event organised by SSK-GNU research team in South Korea.

In the UK , 70% of flights are made by a wealthy 15% of the population, with 57% not flying abroad at all. In the US , just 12% of people take two-thirds of flights.  Canada : 22% of the population takes 73% of flights. The Netherlands:  8% of people takes 42% of flights. China:  5% of households takes 40% of flights. India:  1% of households takes 45% of flights. Indonesia:  3% of households takes 56% of flights. Source: the climate campaign group Possible

  Marwan Daoudy challenges core assumptions behind the climate-conflict hypothesis Related Interview with the Marwa Daoudi On blaming climate change on the Syrian civil war

 Very good and inspirational. Teaching Anthropology of the Economic from MENA Related A Few Things Wrong with Political Economy of the Middle East