for @Parapraxis_Mag I wrote about Palestine as an Arab issue, Arab political subjectivity in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, counterrevolution and reverberations of political defeat since 1967 in an attempt to answer the question “where are the Arabs?” parapraxismagazine.com/artic…

Marmoush scoring 2 goals

Honoured to have had the chance to translate Osama Diab’s incredible work on the disastrous impact of monoculture farming on Egyptian land & labor power at the dawn of capitalism as the global mode of production. Read here 👇🏻

I profiled Shabjdeed for @Dazed MENA. we talked about the Saint Levant diss track, hip hop in the region and the role of the Palestinian artist amongst other things dazed.me/music/shabjdeed-the…

Disappointing to hear the FAI confirm that the game between Republic of Ireland vs Israel will go ahead following a vote among the players. Gavin Bazunu was one of the players who refused to play. He has been left standing alone by many of his senior teammates. We will remember.

let’s gooo

I don’t think people fully comprehend the fact we have multiple British citizens who were active in Israeli forces in Gaza walking around the country, without any investigation, tracking or monitoring. We have no idea the crimes they committed or how radicalised they might be.

Houthis capture Red Sea port in blow to Saudis ft.trib.al/vrBhtuR

you can count on one hand the songs in history that are better than this song

تايوان

US Treasury imposes limits on Egyptian bank for doing business with Iran ft.trib.al/ScA79wC

رافينيها الماتش الي جي

'The primary contradiction today is not dictatorship versus democracy. It is imperialism versus anti-imperialism. And it has brought my generation back onto the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and beyond.' @nihalist___ for Tribune: tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/the…

'The primary contradiction today is imperialism versus anti-imperialism.' @nihalist___ on how the Gaza genocide has changed West Asia and the wider world.

The Guardian has published an open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, Walden Bello, among others. These are not people to be dismissed lightly. Several have given their lives to the anti-imperialist and Black liberation movements, and one of them is writing from inside a US prison. I take no pleasure in disagreeing with them. But the letter is wrong, and plays an objectively harmful role. Its central image is the “two blades of a scissors”: the Islamic Republic on one side, US and Israeli imperialism on the other, with the Iranian people crushed between them. It inserts a symmetry between the world’s major imperialist power and an anti-imperialist state that has never invaded another country, and which has stood consistently with the oppressed from Palestine to South Africa to Venezuela. The load-bearing phrase is this: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism.” Exactly how “hollow” is Tehran’s anti-imperialism? 😵‍💫 For four decades, while almost every Arab government made its accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran armed, funded and sustained the Palestinian resistance. It refused normalisation when the Abraham Accords put enormous inducements on the table. It has absorbed forty years of sanctions, assassinations of scientists, sabotaged infrastructure, and now an open war of aggression, rather than abandon that position. The states that normalised are not being bombed. Hollow anti-imperialism is a communiqué and a hashtag. Iran’s anti-imperialism has been measured in the blood of 168 Minab schoolgirls, in the bombing of its hospitals and oil depots. One can vehemently disagree with aspects of Iran’s domestic politics, but the question at hand is: where do we stand in the global struggle against imperialism? What side of the barricade are we on? Do we support a criminal war of aggression waged by the US and Israel, or we we support the resistance to that war? Do we support genocide in Gaza, or do we support the country that has been the Palestinian resistance’s most consistent ally for decades? This letter dissolves the distinction entirely. It asks us to refuse the choice. But in a war of aggression there is no third position available, because only one party benefits from your neutrality – and it’s not the party being bombed. The letter appears in a British newspaper, six months into a US-Israeli war, at the precise moment when Washington cannot win militarily and needs the political terrain softened. It recycles a familiar vocabulary – sham trials, systematic torture, the targeting of minorities – without sourcing, in the genre that has preceded and accompanied every single regime-change war. Whatever the signatories intended, that is the function it will serve: making the moral case for war. Angela Davis was imprisoned by a state that told the world she was a terrorist. Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned by that state today. These are people who know exactly what happens when an empire manufactures the moral case for crushing its enemies. They would not have signed, half a century ago, a letter denouncing both blades of the scissors – COINTELPRO on one side and the Black Panther Party on the other. Progressive and anti-war forces have a duty to support Iran against war, sanctions, regime change plots and destabilisation.

It’s worth noting this “open letter” about Iran in the guardian only has 24 signatories

Western petit-bourgeois nonsense. In a period when the state is explicitly constructing "the far left" as a national-security enemy, why are these folks reproducing political divisions that make anti-imperialist dissenters easier to isolate & marginalize? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

I'm in Camp Nou, watching the game. Al Ahly fans unroll two banner, then barca fans start throwing many things at Al Ahly fans. Some of the Egyptian fans throw back. Then the police comes and removes the Egyptians. Shame on #Barcelona, during a friendly match.