Middle East

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.