Middle East

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Beyond the humanitarian: Palestinian health from a liberation perspective

Samirah Jarrar outlines the need to move beyond a humanitarian framework of Palestinian health to envision a politics of care rooted in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

Imperialism, repression and resistance: The long war against Kurds in Iran

Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.
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‘The ceasefire never took effect inside Iran’

Nasrin Parvaz discusses the fallout of the recent US-Israeli war on Iran and the Islamic regime’s response.
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Suweida under fire: Sectarianism and the consolidation of power in Damascus

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.
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HTS’ strategy to consolidate its power in Syria

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran, anti-imperialism and the left

Araz Bağban — In their desire to push back imperialism, some leftists ignore everything else, including the right of 90 million Iranians to determine their own destiny.
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Neofascism, imperialism, war and revolution in the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — US imperialism is far from dead. Instead, what we have is a mutation of US imperialism, which began not with Trump, but with Biden and the war in Gaza.
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The mirage of a Palestinian state

Gilbert Achcar — Countries recognizing a hypothetical “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under present conditions, it can't be more than a renewed version of the vast prison the Zionist state confines Palestinian people in.
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‘Atlanticist liberalism can never recover from its present agony’

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.
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Syria: Sharaa’s authoritarian centralisation stumbles in Suweida

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in Suweida, writes Joseph Daher.
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Syria and the dangers of playing with fire

Gilbert Achcar on the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Druze-majority Suwayda Governorate and the prospects of post-Assad Syria.
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[Updated] ‘A serious threat to civil peace and national unity’: Statements from Rojava on sectarian violence in As-Suwayda

Statements by the Syrian Democratic Council, the Democratic Union Party and the Women’s Protection Units on violence in Suwayda.

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