Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon. He is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His publications include The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (2002), published in 15 languages; Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy (2008), with Noam Chomsky; the critically acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli-War of Narratives (2010); and The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013).
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Gilbert Achcar: People Want
"The people want . . .": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems …
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Gilbert Achcar: Morbid Symptoms
‘One of best analysts of the contemporary Arab world’ Le Monde Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the ‘Arab Spring’ has given way to the gloom of backlash, clashes between …
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Gilbert Achcar: Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism
In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A …
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Gilbert Achcar: The People Want
‘The people want’ – thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the ‘Arab Spring’. While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they …
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Gilbert Achcar: The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle East battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and …
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€10.79
Gilbert Achcar: Morbid Symptoms
Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the ‘Arab Spring’ has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war. The revolution has been overwhelmed by clashes b …
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€30.99
Gilbert Achcar: Die Araber und der Holocaust
Es gibt kaum ein explosiveres Thema als ‘Die Araber und der Holocaust’ – das Terrain ist vermint, voller Vorwürfe und Gegenvorwürfe: Die einen werden beschuldigt, den Holocaust zu verleugnen; den …
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Gilbert Achcar & Noam Chomsky: Perilous Power
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct …
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€39.31
Gilbert Achcar & Noam Chomsky: Perilous Power
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct …
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€39.22
Gilbert Achcar: Clash of Barbarisms
‘This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses.’ Noam Chomsky ‘The most forceful, most …
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Gilbert Achcar: Clash of Barbarisms
‘This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses.’ Noam Chomsky ‘The most forceful, most …
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€58.52
Gilbert Achcar & Michel Warschawski: 33 Day War
This book assesses the causes and consequences of the impact on the recent Middle East war. The authors describe the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, but also its relation to …
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€53.53
Gilbert Achcar & Michel Warschawski: 33 Day War
This book assesses the causes and consequences of the impact on the recent Middle East war. The authors describe the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, but also its relation to …
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€53.99
Gilbert Achcar & Noam Chomsky: Perilous Power:The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy
The volatile Middle East is a region of vast resources, frequent crises and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention.Noam …
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€9.49
Eric Toussaint: The World Bank
‘Superior … A broad-ranging guide that explains the global power structure over the last eight decades’ Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México
‘Covering the history of the Bank from its early …
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€36.99
Gilbert Achcar: The New Cold War
A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold War to the War in Ukraine.
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold Wa …
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Gilbert Achcar: The New Cold War
One of the world’s most seasoned international relations experts updates and revises his far-sighted 1999 book arguing that the Cold War did not, in fact, end with the collapse of the USSR – and that …
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€13.19
Eric Toussaint: The World Bank
‘Superior … A broad-ranging guide that explains the global power structure over the last eight decades’ Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México
‘Covering the history of the Bank from its early days a …
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€138.18
Amy E. Wendling & Ellen Meiksins Wood: O renascimento de Marx
O planeta está em profunda crise por causa do capitalismo e Karl Marx está sendo redescoberto em no mundo todo como o pensador que nos forneceu a crítica mais perspicaz.
O renascimento de Marx é o …
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€18.99
Gilbert Achcar: Israel’s War on Gaza
Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas’s operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Anot …
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Gilbert Achcar: El pueblo quiere
Hay libros que cuentan historias y otros nos las explican. Este nos ayuda justo a entender las causas de las rebeliones populares de 2011 y las razones que llevaron a la mayoría a evolucionar de …
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