Gilbert Achcar

11 Podcast Episodes

The New Cold War, with Gilbert Achcar

The New Cold War, with Gilbert Achcar

This week we hear from Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, who discuss... Read more

27 Apr 2023

32mins

GILBERT ACHCAR | Anti-war Activism | Conversations

GILBERT ACHCAR | Anti-war Activism | Conversations

Gilbert Achcar spoke about his work as an academic and his recent book, "The People Want."Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese a... Read more

14 Sep 2022

49mins

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Long Reads: Gilbert Achcar on the Second Wave of Arab Uprisings

Long Reads: Gilbert Achcar on the Second Wave of Arab Uprisings

Gilbert Achcar joins Long Reads for a conversation about the second wave of Arab uprisings—and the possibility of a thir... Read more

23 Apr 2022

53mins

The Legacy of the Paris Commune 1871-2021 w/ Gilbert Achcar & Carolyn Eichner

The Legacy of the Paris Commune 1871-2021 w/ Gilbert Achcar & Carolyn Eichner

Join a Gilbert Achcar, Carolyn Eichner, Phil Gasper, and Helen Scott to discuss the enduring legacy of the great Paris C... Read more

18 Jun 2021

1hr 31mins

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A conversation with Prof Gilbert Achcar: Inequality in the MENA region and the impact of COVID-19

A conversation with Prof Gilbert Achcar: Inequality in the MENA region and the impact of COVID-19

Welcome to the first podcast organised by the Early Career Researchers initiative at the Middle East and North Africa So... Read more

24 May 2021

43mins

Professor Gilbert Achcar on Lebanon's social crisis

Professor Gilbert Achcar on Lebanon's social crisis

It's been six weeks since a devastating explosion rocked the port of Beirut, killing hundreds and leaving widespread des... Read more

14 Sep 2020

17mins

Covid, Neoliberalism and the 'Arab Spring' I Gilbert Achcar I May 2020

Covid, Neoliberalism and the 'Arab Spring' I Gilbert Achcar I May 2020

This event will explore the implications of the global Covid-19 crisis on the future of neoliberalism, and the ongoing s... Read more

28 May 2020

1hr 9mins

Danny Postel Interviews Gilbert Achcar

Danny Postel Interviews Gilbert Achcar

DSA member Danny Postel, assistant director of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University, inte... Read more

11 Jul 2018

1hr 54mins

Morbid Symptoms: Gilbert Achcar on the counter-revolution in the Arab world

Morbid Symptoms: Gilbert Achcar on the counter-revolution in the Arab world

In his Prison Notebooks of 1930, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote, "The crisis consists precisely in the fact t... Read more

12 Sep 2016

17mins

Day 2 Keynote: Probing the Main Obstacle to the Arab Popular Uprisings Gilbert Achcar

Day 2 Keynote: Probing the Main Obstacle to the Arab Popular Uprisings Gilbert Achcar

The Arab Revolutions: Five Years OnThe Arduous Road of Democratization and Future Prospects

6 Jun 2016

41mins

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