Cairo Conference: Middle Eastern Promise
Issue section: News8th January 2004Issue: January 2004281ByAnne AshfordThe Cairo conference brought to a close a momentous year for the global anti-war movement. Over 1,000 activists from Europe, North...
View ArticleArab Civilisation: Found in Translation
Issue section: Feature5th February 2004Issue: February 2004282ByAnne AshfordModern language, science and culture owes much to the Muslim empire of the early Middle Ages.'We should not be ashamed to...
View ArticleInterview: The Imperial Blowback
Issue section: Interview1st December 2004Issue: December 2004291BySimon AssafRobert FiskRobert Fisk explains to Simon Assaf why there can be no peace in the Middle East until Britain and the US get...
View ArticleThe Great War for Civilization
Issue section: Feature1st October 2005Issue: October 2005300ByRobert FiskExclusive to Socialist Review, we print extracts from award-winning journalist Robert Fisk's forthcoming book The Great War for...
View ArticleGay Rights: Who are the Real Enemies of Liberation?
Issue section: Third World Report (Middle East)1st February 2006Issue: February 2006303ByGhassan MakaremThe bigoted outburst by the magazine of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association calling Islam a...
View ArticleLebanon: Some Things That Money Can't Buy
Issue section: Third World Report (Middle East)1st May 2006Issue: May 2006306ByBassem ChitThe US's attempt to "democratise" the Middle East - or, to put it bluntly, to create puppet regimes - has had...
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Iraq: torn apart by imperialism
Issue section: Feature7th July 2014Issue: July / August 2014393BySimon AssafIsis-iraq.gifThe dramatic military advance by Isis militants in the Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq in the early part of the...
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Can Arab and Jews live together?
Issue section: Feature2nd September 2014Issue: September 2014394John Rosejerusalem.jpgA mixed street in Jerusalem, 2001This question might seem absurd in the light of the appalling slaughter of...
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Palestine, Arab Revolutions and Global Solidarity
Issue section: Feature2nd September 2014Issue: September 2014394BySimon Assafgaza-demo-london.jpgOver one hundred thousand people marched through central London in one of the biggest pro-Palestinian...
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Imperialism and the new wars in the Middle East
Issue section: Feature28th April 2015Issue: May 2015402BySimon Assaf500_yemen-blast.jpgThe decline of US imperialism in the Middle East is fuelling rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Simon...
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Discontent rises in Arab world
Issue section: News2nd September 2015Issue: September 2015405BySimon Assafbeirut-protest.jpgA crisis caused by uncollected rubbish has triggered the biggest popular protest in Lebanon for a generation....
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The use and abuse of the Arab Revolt
Issue section: Feature31st May 2016Issue: June 2016414BySimon Guyarab-revolt_web.jpgIn June 1916 thousands of Arabs rose up against the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled over the region for four...
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Welcome to the new age of the neo-cons
Issue section: Feature28th November 2016Issue: December 2016419BySimon AssafWelcome-to-the-age-of-the-Neocons.jpgWorkers in Port Said taking part in the sit-in (Pic: revsoc.me)Will Trump return to the...
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Middle East spins deeper into crisis
Issue section: News3rd July 2017Issue: July / August 2017426BySimon AssafMiddle-East-plane-flare.jpgForeign intervention is pushing the Middle East into a series of wars with no end in sight. The war...
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Rock in a Hard Place
Issue section: Books4th September 2017Issue: September 2017427ByKevin McCaighyRock in a Hard PlaceOrlando CrowcroftZed Books£12.99Metal as a genre of contemporary music is still derided across the...
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