Review: “Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide” by Khaled Hroub
Hm. I’m in two minds about this one. Reading it, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was rushed out in the wake of the January 2006 Hamas election victory — an attempt by Pluto Press to make a quick …...
View ArticleReview: “Reporting from Ramallah” by Amria Hass
This is really disappointing. I’ve long respected Amira Hass’ reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. And there’s is no question that, as the only Israeli reporting regularly from Palestine...
View ArticleReview: “Israel/Palestine: How To End The War Of 1948″ by Tanya Reinhart
The late and much missed Tanya Reinhart wrote this 2002 analysis at height of the second intifada during the darkest days of the violence. It is extremely solid and many of her arguments here have been...
View ArticleReview: “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” by Frank Miller
Philosophic pretence can not disguise what is essentially yet another very stupid story about a masked vigilante in tights who goes around beating criminals within an inch of their lives (as if police...
View ArticleReview: “The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003″ by Tanya Reinhart
An excellent sequel to “Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948″. Here Reinhart argues that the correct way to understand the 2005 Israeli redeployment from Gaza (the much vaunted “disengagement”)...
View ArticleReview: “US policy towards Jerusalem and the Occupied Arab Territories, 1948...
A pretty dry, academic account of (surprise surprise) US policy towards the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and other Arab lands in 1948 and 1967 (with a focus on the status of Jerusalem in 1948)....
View ArticleReview: “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama
I went into this book looking for the “old” Obama, who one gets the impression was perhaps more radical before he started to compromise in order to win elections. It seems, though, that this is an...
View ArticleLiberal arrogance and some Palestinian non-violent martyrs
Guardian America editor Michael Tomasky thinks he’s being clever and original by asking: “why don’t the Palestinians just imitate Ghandi?“. Self-satisfied liberals ask this from time to time. From...
View ArticleReview: “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide” by Ben White
This book is an excellent “guide for the perplexed”. It is perfect for those new to the subject. I personally will be buying copies and foisting it on friends and relatives. At the same time I was...
View ArticleMythTV guide
I’ve built my own DVR using the excellent Linux-based MythTV software. I’ve written a detailed guide about how I did it here. I mostly wrote it for my own benefit, but hopefully it will be of use to...
View ArticleMy appearance on Epilogue, Ken Livingstone’s book review show
Me on Press TV’s book review show “Epilogue”. Ken Livingstone leads a discussion between Dr Salman Sayyid & myself about Raja Shehadeh‘s book “Strangers in the House”. Part 1: (parts 2 and 3 after...
View ArticleAngry Arab talk: “The Case Against Israel”
As`ad AbuKhalil speaks on “The Case Against Israel”. Audio recorded at Goldsmiths, 17 January 2011. The opening night of his UK tour, hosted by Goldsmiths Palestine Campaign. Mostly about Palestine,...
View ArticleMy interview with Russia Today on the Syrian Observatory
After my story for Al Akhbar English about the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Russia Today asked to do to the above interview with me about the case, released on their website today. Continue...
View ArticleMostly blogging
Most of my writing these days is published on my blog for The Electronic Intifada. I will continue to be published at EI (and other places) in more long form articles from time to time, and when that...
View ArticleHiatus
I’ve managed to lapse out of the habit of updating this site with my newest articles, but I’m going to get back into it now. You can also look back on the MEMO website for the last few months of …...
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