How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle
How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle A Critical Analysis of the Trump–Powell Standoff and Fed Hegemony Introduction: The Trump-Powell Standoff as a Window into Systemic Conflict The publicly heated disputes between U.S. President Donald Trump..
Egypt’s Workers, Back on the Front Line?
In the second week of September, a two-day strike and plant-gate sit-in at The Nile Linen Group in Alexandria forced management and officials from the Labor Ministry to concede to a package of demands after an infant died in her..
Seeds of Dependency: The Silent War on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia
On his small farm in the region of Zaghouan, a 70-year-old farmer stands before a wooden box inherited from his father. The box holds small cloth bags, each containing seeds of crops that have been cultivated for decades on the..
On the late Ziad Rahbani : “I consider nothing human alien to me”
Moroccan theorist and authoBensalem Himmich opened his best-known intellectual treatise, A Critique of the Need for Marx, by quoting a form Marx himself filled out in the 1860s, thus conveying to us an image of Marx, “Ecce Homo.” In it,..
Religion and Morals in Sisi’s New Republic
Over the past weeks, Egyptian authorities renewed their crackdown on TikTok content creators and social media influencers. The police have already carried out dozens of arrests, including that of a student in Sharqiyya accused of making ‘offensive’ comments online, and..
Sonallah Ibrahim, Incorruptible Novelist, 1937–2025
Sonallah Ibrahim, the Egyptian leftist novelist whose documentary style and steadfast independence helped remake the modern Arabic novel, died in Cairo on August 13, 2025. He was 88. Egyptian and international outlets reported his passing after an illness; local reports..
Algorithm-proof freedom: what’s behind North Africa’s data laws
The meteoric rise of digital technologies and the massive collection of personal data have profoundly altered relations between citizens, governments and companies. In the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, these changes raise fundamental questions: How can individual..
Algeria–EU: Arbitrating a Historical Imbalance
In July 2025, the European Union officially initiated a dispute settlement procedure against Algeria within the framework of their association agreement. This move follows several years of commercial tensions, especially over imports, investments, and Algeria’s industrial strategy. Behind this legal..
The Secret Warfare Techniques of the United Arab Emirates in Libya and Sudan
Introduction Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya emerged as a strategic battleground for regional and international powers. Among them, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has built a discreet yet consistent—and above all decisive—presence there, at the..
The fourth age of emigration: a survey of families of the disappeared
Introduction In this paper, we set out to study the structures and implications of a “new age of emigration”, which we shall situate from 1995 onwards, the date marking the entry into force of the Schengen agreement. In cementing freedom..
Suppression of Movement Migration Control, Manufactured Precarity and Racialised Border Regimes in Post-Hirak Algeria: In the Name of Sovereignty, at the Service of Rent Accumulation
“We today can do everything, so long as we do not imitate Europe, so long as we are not obsessed by the desire to catch up with Europe. Europe now lives at such a mad, reckless pace that she has..
A Mother’s Last Stand: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike for Freedom
On her 248th day without food, Dr. Laila Soueif lies gaunt yet unyielding in a London hospital bed. The 69-year-old mathematics professor, and mother of imprisoned Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, has lost 42% of her body weight and faces..