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On the late Edward Said's birthday, we're revisiting this interview that Samuel McIlhagga conducted with Said biographer Timothy Brennan, discussing Said's political advocacy and lifelong support for Palestine.
Samuel McIlhagga interviews Prof. Timothy Brennan, author of Places of Mind, an intellectual biography of Edward Said, on Said’s life, his Marxism, and the evolution of his advocacy for Palestine.
This is the second post in the series of messages translated by the Institute for Palestine Studies and shared directly from Gazans under attack.
proteanmag.com/2023/10/17/letters-from-gaza-part-2/
The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israeli strikes kill thousands across the strip.
To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here.
The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel ramps up its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing these messages here, and will continue to update this page as more come in.
Sohel Sarkar reviews Smoke and Ashes, by Amitav Ghosh. The book's thesis is that the historical U.S. opium trade not only echoes the current opioid crisis—it also made the fortunes of famous families and helped lay the foundations for global capitalism.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/09/15/opiate-cartels-united-states/
Ryan Moore examines and explains Kohei Saito's environmentalist reading of Marx's late notebooks in "Marx in the Anthropocene"—a major work in Marxist ecology and intervention in the degrowth debate.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/08/21/discovering-a-green-marx-kohei-saitos-marx-in-the-anthropocene/
To mark two years after the fall of Kabul, we've excerpted the epilogue of Combat Trauma, by Nadia Abu El-Haj, from Verso Books—on the incalculable cost of US wars, and on this country's jingoism, willful ignorance, and refusal to acknowledge its crimes.
On the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul, we're publishing the epilogue of Combat Trauma, by Nadia Abu El-Haj, out from Verso Books. El-Haj writes on the incalculable cost of the War on Terror—on this country's jingoism, its willful ignorance, and its refusal to acknowledge its crimes.
From Issue IV: Luke O'Neil's short story "Newburyport, MA" renders a memory in the timbre of modern experience, where diffuse horrors punctuate the everyday.
From Issue IV: Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) reflects on the ambivalent figure of her great-uncle, the Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who served a brief term as Prime Minister of the hybrid state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
Sculptures by Wallen Mapondera.
Zoé Samudzi reflects on the ambivalent figure of her great-uncle, the Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who was briefly Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Despite his own best intentions, Muzorewa would be dismissed by posterity as a Black collaborator with a white apartheid government—though the truth is more nuanced.
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