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Azmi Bishara

This 14-part essay written by Azmi Bishara consists of a series of think pieces originally posted on social media, republished by Arab 48 and some other sites. Colleagues at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies suggested that the posts be amended and re-published in the form of an extended essay as part of the ACRPS Covid-19 series. The essay covers the current Covid-19 pandemic from various angles and was originally published in Arabic on 20 April 2020.

Azmi Bishara's Introduction to the Arabic Edition of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust, translated by Hajjaj Abu Jabr and Dina Ramadan and published by the Arab Center for Research and P

Full Text of Azmi Bishara's Keynote Lecture “Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences” Given at the College de France, Paris, 28 November 2019.

Although this article generally acknowledges the priority of internal factors, it discusses the conditions for bringing back the external factor in certain cases, especially after the collapse of a

L’antisionisme est-il «une des formes modernes de l’antisémitisme»?

In this interview (2004) Bishara examines how the state of Israel in its very definition cannot be a state for all of its citizens, considering the institutionalized inequality that exist

Dr. Azmi Bishara's Opening Remarks for the Symposium “Bullets to Ballots: Transformations form Armed to Unarmed Political Action” that took place in the headquarters of the ACRPS in Doha, Qatar.

One way or another, we thought that 2011 finally debunked the oft-repeated claims of Arab exceptionalism as an "explanation" for reluctance to begin a democratic transformation.

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