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Archive of The Rise of Islamic State

    Verso Books
    09 September 2021
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    US Empire 20 Years after 9/11: A Reading List

    Essential readings on the United States' imperialist ventures in the Middle East by Deepa Kumar, Suzanne Schneider, and Andrew Cockburn.

    Verso Books
    18 June 2021
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    No Walls, No Borders

    A reading list on the changing role of borders and how we consider freedom of movement, globalization, and humanitarian crises across the world.

    Verso Books
    22 September 2017
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    Verso at The World Transformed

    To celebrate this weekend's The World Transformed festival we're offering 40% off all our essential Labour reading!

    Timothy Mitchell
    07 June 2017
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    McJihad: Empire and Islam between The US and Saudi Arabia

    It has become popular today to say that we live in an era of what Benjamin Barber has labelled "Jihad vs. McWorld." The globalising powers of capitalism ("McWorld") are confronted with or resisted by the forces that Barber labels "Jihad" — the variety of tribal particularisms and "narrowly conceived faiths" opposed to the homogenising force of capital. Even those with a critical view of the growth of American empire and the expansion of what is erroneously termed the global market usually subscribe to this interpretation. In fact it is the critics who often argue that we need a better understanding of these local forms of resistance against the "universal" force of the market.

    The terms of this debate are quite misleading. We live in an age, to adapt Barber’s nomenclature, of "McJihad." It is an age in which the mechanisms of what we call capitalism appear to operate, in certain critical instances, only by adopting the social force and moral authority of conservative Islamic movements. It may be true that we need a better understanding of the local forces that oppose the globalisation of capital; but, more than this, we need a better understanding of the so-called global forces of capital.

    Michael Löwy
    04 May 2017
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    Libertarian Kurdistan: it matters for us, too!

    Perry AndersonSuleiman Mourad
    17 January 2017
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    Perry Anderson and Suleiman Mourad: Islamism and the Contemporary Arab World

    In the Mosaic of Islam Perry Anderson and the acclaimed historian of Islam Suleiman Mourad aim to introduce the long history of Islam and its reception, from Muhammad to the present, in an open and accessible manner. In this extract from the book, Anderson and Mourad discuss the antagonism between Shiʿis and Sunnis, the causes and effects of the Arab Spring, Israel's place in the Middle East, and the history of Pan-Arabism.

    Rachel Shabi
    30 December 2016
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    A Higher Standard

    Verso Books
    14 December 2016
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    Crisis and Conflict in the Middle East: A Reading List

    Patrick Cockburn
    02 December 2016
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    Life in the Caliphate

    Heaven Crawley
    27 October 2016
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    Deconstructing ‘The Jungle’, Reconstructing the British Border

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