The Origin of the Necropolis
Follow up on Death and Sex in Palestine
HistoryPhilosophy
The Abrahamic Metacritique.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Middle Eastern history, Arab intellectual life, philosophy, and politics.
Recent essays
30 of 38Signs 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
The Invention of Civilizational Islam
Ismail al-Faruqi and the Post-Christian Origins of Islamism
Still More Flying Notes From Egypt
The Confessions of a Very Communicative Man
Western Civilization and Its Despisers
Kultur, the German Counter-Tradition, and the Counter-Canon
Negative Covenant
Objections to the Metacritique of Palestine
Broken Mirror
On Jewish Self-Presentation and Its Failures
A Metacritique of Palestine
On the Political Economy of a Word-Symbol
Western Civilization And Its Defense
Civilization, Historicism, and the Liberal Invention of Tradition
The War On the Abraham Accords
How a Coordinated International Campaign is Targeting the UAE
Everything Has Changed
The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz 3
Why Is There No Redemption in the Arabic Novel?
On Third-Worldist Literature, Mimetic Economy of Despair, and the Singularity of the Person