Gilbert Achcar
| Gilbert Achcar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1951 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Residence | Lebanon |
| Nationality | French and Lebanese |
| Fields | academic and writer |
Gilbert Achcar (Arabic: جلبير الأشقر; born 1951) is a Lebanese academic, writer, socialist and anti-war 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 a 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 debate within the international left on the position towards the coalition intervention in Libya for humanitarian reasons.[1] He gave his support in March 2013 to the campaign of film director Ken Loach and activist Kate Hudson for a new left-wing party in the UK.[2]
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.
- Author: "The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising", 2012
References
- ↑ Achcar, Gilbert (24 March 2011). "Libya: a legitimate and necessary debate from an anti-imperialist perspective". ZNet.
- ↑ Loach, Ken; Hudson, Kate; Achcar, Gilbert (25 March 2013). "The Labour party has failed us. We need a new party of the left". The Guardian.
Additional reading
- Books
- Achcar, Gilbert. The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder. ISBN 0863569196.
- Articles and interviews
- 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?"
- On the Clash of Barbarisms from the Massacre in Paris to the U.S. Occupation of Iraq (2015-01-09), Democracy Now!
- Archive of Interviews (from 2011 to date), The Real News
External links
- Profile at School of Oriental and African Studies
- Gilbert Achcar's page on "International Viewpoint-the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International"
- "الحوار المتمدن"
- "الثورة الدائمة"
- "جلبير الأشقر-الدين والسياسة اليوم من منظور ماركسي"
- "الاستشراق معكوسا: تيارات ما بعد العام 1979في الدراسات الإسلامية الفرنسية"
- " في البرنامج الاستراتيجي للنضال التحرري الفلسطيني- 2009 "
- "جلبير الأشقر(جريدة المناضل-ة)_2006 _إخفاق المشروع التنويري في المنطقة العربية وشروط استنهاضه"
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