Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon. He is professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. His forthcoming book is The New Cold War: Chronicle of a Confrontation Foretold. He has also written Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016) and The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013), The Clash of Barbarisms (2nd expanded edition 2006) and The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010).
Conflict in Sudan: "Life-and-death battle"
International Appeal for the Immediate Release of All Political Prisoners in Russia
Israel’s Genocidal War After Four Months
Lebanon’s Ceasefire Is No “Divine Victory”
On Hamas’s October Counter-Offensive
Putin’s War in Ukraine: In Saddam Hussein’s footsteps
The Coming Israeli Attack on Iran
The Crisis is Permanent: Middle East and North Africa After 2011
The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process
The First US-Israeli Joint War
Two Gaza Scenarios: Greater Israel vs. Oslo
Behind Lebanon's Catastrophe
Against the Current No. 208, September/October 2020
Disasters in Syria and Yemen
Against the Current, No. 182, May/June 2016
Russia's Intervention and Syria's Future
Against the Current, No. 182, May/June 2016
On Egypt
Against the Current, No. 166, September/October 2013
Can People Get What They Want?
Against the Current, No. 166, September/October 2013
The Empire in Decline
Against the Current, No. 162, January/February 2013
Egypt and Beyond
Against the Current, No. 151, March/April 2011
The Middle East in Flames
Against the Current, No. 124, September/October 2006
The Danger in Lebanon
Against the Current, No. 120, January/February 2006
The Occupation and the Anti-War Movement After the Election
Against the Current, No. 115, March/April 2005
Don't Let the B2s Get You Down
Against the Current, No. 104, May/June 2003