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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Jul 16

My new paper just out: “The Anatomy of Lebanon’s Postwar Integral State: The Political Economy of Cartels and Consent” 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FJEAG...

The Anatomy of Lebanon’s Postwar Integral State: The Political Economy of Cartels and Consent

This essay stretches Antonio Gramsci’s core concept of the integral state to explain an enigma in contemporary Lebanon: why the massive collapse after the October 2019 protests failed to generate c...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ammar Shamaileh @ammars.bsky.social · Jul 16

Why did the "massive collapse after the October 2019 protests [fail] to generate commensurate political, ideological, and organizational responses?"

Check out this wonderful new piece by @bassel26.bsky.social

#Polisky

The Anatomy of Lebanon’s Postwar Integral State: The Political Economy of Cartels and Consent

This essay stretches Antonio Gramsci’s core concept of the integral state to explain an enigma in contemporary Lebanon: why the massive collapse after the October 2019 protests failed to generate c...

www.tandfonline.com

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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Jun 23

Just out: Pete Moore and @seanyom.bsky.social in conversation with Ezra Karmel about their MELG Roundtable “Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East," which includes articles on Jordan, Syria and Yemen

on.soundcloud.com/CgXZYhR8rgxs...

Episode 23 – Militarization in Jordan with Dr. Pete Moore and Dr. Sean Yom

In this episode, Ezra Karmel speaks with Sean Yom and Pete Moore about their recent special issue in MELG,

on.soundcloud.com

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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Jun 18

MELG’s new issue is out! It’s a SI on “Populism in the Arab World” coedited with MELG Editorial Board member @ammars.bsky.social

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Dylan Baun @dylan-baun.bsky.social · Jun 12

❤️ to see Winning Lebanon getting good press years later. Thanks @bassel26.bsky.social for reviewing 👏

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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Apr 5

Chech out Tamirace Fakhoury’s blog about our new MELG SI on “Concomitant crises and Sectarian Power-Sharing: What’s next for Lebanon?”
blog.brill.com/display/post...

blog.brill.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Dec 29

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite

In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual

www.nybooks.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Nov 26

Civilians in Beirut are heading to seek shelter at the American University of Beirut Hospital amid Israeli evacuation orders in central Beirut. 🇱🇧

(Photo sent by local residents to L'Orient Today)

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Nov 23

“Join a labor union, a social movement, a political party, a tenant union, a community organization, a book club. Literally anything is better than sitting at home and scrolling on your phone and getting mad at the news.”

Many protest movements of the past decade have backfired. What would it take for one to succeed under Trump?

Some features of mass protests in the 2010s also held them back – but years of study have made journalist Vincent Bevins believe solidarity and structure can effect change

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Nov 23

Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, November 2024
www.sup.org/books/law/bu...

Building Walls, Constructing Identities | Stanford University Press

States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico stands as an icon among these dividing structures.

www.sup.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Nov 23

This classic work in the history of nationalism argues that the rise of widely available print (esp. newspapers) made it possible for geographically dispersed groups of people to imagine themselves as a roughly coherent entity called "a nation" in which there was an ongoing conversation.

An intellecrual giant'
ECONOMIST
BENEDICT ANDERSON
IMAGINED
COMMUNITIES
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · Nov 18

The strike killed the regional head of the public civil defense agency. One of his final requests was for a "bio radar" to detect life under rubble.

So many ppl in the region have told me they joined civil protection b/c they didn't want to do politics or join a party; they just wanted to help ppl.

‘Israel is trying to terrorise people’: Lebanon’s civil defence reels after deadly strike

After 20 people including 15 first responders killed in Douris, rescuers ask why state service was targeted

www.theguardian.com

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Nov 17

A year on from the IDF's assault on Gaza's largest hospital, it has yet to provide any compelling evidence to suggest facility was a Hamas HQ, as alleged by Isreal and US. Attack set the tone for a campaign that has since decimated Gaza's medical system. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

The case of al-Shifa: Investigating the assault on Gaza’s largest hospital

The evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center, a Post analysis shows.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Nov 15

World Bank estimates cost of Israel’s war on Lebanon at $8.5 billion so far.

www.worldbank.org/en/news/pres...

New World Bank Report Assesses Impact of Conflict on Lebanon’s Economy and Key Sectors

The cost of physical damages and economic losses due to the conflict in Lebanon is estimated at US$8.5 billion, according to a new World Bank report that provides an initial assessment of the impact o...

www.worldbank.org

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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Nov 11

My contribution to the new issue of the newsletter of the Democracy and Autocracy section of APSA about my chapter It features the recent book “Making Sense of the Arab State”

Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Nov 9

Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch, eds., Making Sense of the Arab State (New Texts Out Now) jadaliyya.com/Details/46324 via @jadaliyya.bsky.social

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Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social · Oct 29

“Making Sense of the Arab State” featured in APSA’s Democracy & Autocracy newsletter 👇🏼👇🏼