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The Abrahamic Metacritique.

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Middle Eastern history, Arab intellectual life, philosophy, and politics.

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The Art of Blaming Israel For Everything

Notes Toward an Autopsy of Anti-Zionism

Brotherist Without Being a Brother

Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood

Intifada Everywhere All at Once

On the other October 7th

Ye Have Troubled Me

Why Israel Must Reclaim the Monopoly of Violence from Jewish Extremism in the West Bank

Lost for Words

On the Use and Abuse of Genocide and Other Words

A World of Hurt

The Middle East Three Years After October 7

The Battle of All Poets and Authors

On the story of how Revolution remade Arab letters, antisemitic poetry, and other things

How One Becomes Everything and Nothing

On Third Worldism and Willed Meaning

How October 7 Inherited the Guilt of September 11

The West’s habit of converting mass murder into self-recrimination moved from Ground Zero to Gaza

Death and Sex in Palestine, Part II

The Erotics of Sacrifice

The Origin of the Necropolis

Follow up on Death and Sex in Palestine

Signs and Existence

On Signs, Reality, and Language Between Nietzsche and Hamann

Old-New Anti-Semitism

The infinite reproducibility of anti-Semitism

The Power of Ideas Or Ideas of Power

The Idea of Palestine in Democratic Politics

Death and Sex in Palestine

The Visual Culture of Palestinian Martyrdom and the Erotics of Sacrifice

There Are No Heroes Here

Arday the Miracle, Arday the Fraud

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought

Textdämmerung

On Arday, the EU, and How One Philosophizes with a Chatbot

Third Time Is the Charm?

The Mecca Pact and the Sad History of Collective Defense

The Triumph of the Iranian Will

Where do we go from here?

It Will Only Get Worse

Dem Third World Queer-Palestine Communism and the End of History

Podcast: The Political Economy of Palestine

Russ Roberts and Hussein Mansour discussing "Metacritique of Palestine"

Arabs and the Global Left

Palestine and and Its Discontents

The Pathos of Modern Islam

On the Post-Christian Grammar of Modern Muslim Thought

After Prophecy

Preserving Value and Order Under Divine Concealment, a Religious Phenomenology of Modern Life and Politics

The Lachrymose Self-Conception of Liberal Society

Homicidal Empathy and the Dreams of Innocence

Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords

A New Regional Vision Without Israel

The Will to Manage

Rahm Emanuel Tries to Save a Coalition That No Longer Exists

The Great Moral Accounting Fraud

On the Moral Credit Economy of the Post-Christian World

Narratives of Redemption

Lincoln, Wagner, and the Fate of Redemption after God