Introduction: Samir Amin’s Enduring Marxist Lens on the Arab Revolutions It was 2011 when Cairo erupted in a cry that had been building for decades. […]
Category: Book Review
Review of Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia”
As the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of fighting the Afghan Taliban following the 2001 invasion, it ironically […]
The Forgetting of Being: Ibtisam Azem and the Lived World of Palestine
In his seminal non-fiction The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera highlights Edmund Husserl’s expounding of ‘Crisis of European Humanity’, holding that it was for […]
Review of Ashok K. Behuria’s Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: Origin, Evolution and Future Portents
Once it became an independent nation in 1947, Pakistan was faced with the daunting task of building a nation. This was compounded by the fact […]