Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar (born 1951 in Senegal) is a Lebanese academic, writer, socialist and antiwar activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. He taught politics and international relations at the University of Paris VIII until 2003, when he took up a position at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin. Since August 2007, Achcar has been Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique, ZNet, and International Viewpoint.

Gilbert Achcar is a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education.

In March 2011, he wrote an article for ZNet that provoked a wide debate within the international left on the position towards the coalition intervention in Libya for humanitarian reasons. [1]

Bibliography

• Author: La nouvelle Guerre froide : le monde après le Kosovo, 1999. English translation included as two chapters in Tariq Ali (ed.): "Masters of the Universe". NATO’s Balkan Crusade, 2000".
• Editor: The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, 1999.
• Author: Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror, 2004 (L'Orient incandescent : le Moyen-Orient au miroir marxiste, 2003.
• Author The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (Le choc des barbaries : terrorismes et désordre mondial, 2002 and 2006.
• Editor: The Israeli Dilemma: A Debate between Two Left-Wing Jews. Letters between Marcel Liebman and Ralph Miliband (Le dilemme israélien. Un débat entre Juifs de gauche), 2006.
• Author with Michel Warschawski: The 33-Day War: Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and its Consequences, 2007.
• Author with Noam Chomsky, Perilous Power. The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2007 and 2008.
• Author: "The Arabs and the Holocaust", 2010.

Sources

• http://www.selvesandothers.org/view423.html
• http://www.vanguardbooks.com/cgi-local/vbl/titlebrowse.pl?isbn=0863569196&subject=Vanguard%20Imports

External links

• Profile at School of Oriental and African Studies
• Interview with State of Nature (March 2006)
• Interview with the Alternative Information Center, "American, Israeli and Iranian Strategies in the Middle East Conflict" (May 2008)
• "Gilbert Achcar on the Middle East"
• Interview with Gilbert Achcar: "The U.S. is sowing the seeds of a long term tragedy..."
• "The Arabs and the Holocaust": War of Narratives
• "Whither Egypt?"