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After the 2011 revolt forced Ben Ali out of power, many Western observers deluded themselves into thinking that Tunisia was successfully building democracy while its Arab neighbours were failing. They had been equally deluded about the quality of the country’s economic management before 2011. It has taken them many years to realise that they have got Tunisia wrong.

Achcar clarifies and expands his argument on the position the left should take on peace in Ukraine

Drumbeat of international criticism on range of issues has bruised the tiny but enormously wealthy emirate, and further tensions lie ahead

Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate An Interview with Gilbert Achcar Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006);  Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010);  Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); and  Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016). He was interviewed by St...

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After the Pandemic Subsides, We May See a Third Wave of the Arab Spring A man waits by a graffiti depicting silhouettes of a man metamorphosing into a bird symbolizing freedom, in Mohamed Bouazizi Square in the center of the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia on October 27, 2020, the cradle of the 2011 Tunisian revolution. FETHI BELAID / AFP via Getty Images By We are in the midst of the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring. While most of the revolts suffered terrible defeats, the revo...