Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book:

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Great resource on the Arab Left and radicalism in the Arab East in radicalism in the 20th century: 40+ hours of podcasts narrated by Abdel Razzaq Takriti:

www.patreon.com/posts/announ...

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf:

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?
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The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath Tehran built a doctrine of resistance designed for export, not for local consumption, but then Washington broke a quarter-century taboo about striking Iran

Iran exported its wars for 25 years, but then Washington changed the rules.
@hhassan.bsky.social  and Kamran Bokhari on the 'Third Gulf War' and the threshold it crossed.

Also Raya Jalabi:

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The 10 minutes that set Lebanon ablaze

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has had major worldwide impacts, but still tends to be analysed in isolation from the global geopolitical context.

So my recent post asks:

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

One day after Israel killed 254 people and injured more than 1,000 others in Lebanon in ten minutes, its Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to direct peace talks with Lebanon.

My latest article raises the following question:

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?
open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

As the Gulf war shows, the boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

In my latest Substack post I ask:

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war?
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@raniaab.bsky.social is a superb reporter and writer, here is her account of Israel's carnage in Lebanon yesterday:

The Iran War Is Not Over: Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut.

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This Wednesday at 6pm (UK time BST), join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social and
@yezidsayigh.bsky.social .

More details and registration here:
caabu.org/events/caabu...

Do join us for this @caabu.bsky.social online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (UK time BST), with @drhahellyer.bsky.social, @yezidsayigh.bsky.social and Negin Shiraghaei.

Register here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site

"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl
 

Join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (BST UK time) with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social, and @yezidsayigh.bsky.social.

More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

Q for librarians: I'm trying to find out when the first version' of Congressional Research Service's "Changes in the Arctic" was issued (www.congress.gov/crs-product/...) if you click on PDFversion history versions go back to 2018, but I know it is much older. How do I find out the year of 1st issue

The NY Times article on Israeli demographic engineering/ethnic cleansing in Southern Lebanon is rightfully getting a lot of attention.

I'd just highlight it represents a continuity, not only with Israeli strategies in Southern Lebanon in the 1980s, but with Zionist strategies in the 1948.

India’s Digital Health Push Is Overworking Its Front-Line Women Multiple apps, unpaid data work, surveillance tools and gendered constraints have turned health care digitization into a second, invisible shift for community health workers

"The digital transformation, which promised to streamline health care, has instead added an unpaid second shift — this time on the accredited social health activist (or ASHA) workers’ phones."

At its 61st regular session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted two further resolutions on Palestine

- On the illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/L.…

- On the Palestinian right to self-determination: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/L.���

BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting.

The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

Israel’s unending attacks in Lebanon push country’s population to the brink Four weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, many in Lebanon are suffering under yet another Israeli aggression.

I visited Lebanon's suicide prevention hotline center, where calls have doubled in comparison with 2024's mass displacement.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Tough choices for Arab Gulf states Dragged into a war they did not want, Arab Gulf states are paying a heavy price, with little control over the course of events nor hope of a stable outcome once the war ends

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: Arab Gulf states are trapped between taking hits from Iran or responding vigorously and being hit even harder - in a war they didn't want in the first place

My latest comment:

Tough choices for Arab Gulf states
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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which

Superb, concise explanation by Adam Hanieh of how and why the US-Israeli war on Iran is having such massive impacts on economies and production around the world:

Bottling the World Economy
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Escalation risks in the U.S.-Israel-Iran war A game-theoretic assessment suggests the likeliest outcome is a war that gets worse without anyone quite deciding to make it so

A careful assessment of trajectories in the Iran war based on war-gaming, well worth reading carefully for its insights into complex dynamics, not simply its projections:

Escalation risks in the U.S.-Israel-Iran war
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Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them.

This is one I trust: “Think of Others,” a chosen recipient of the Lebanon Humanitarian FundFundraiser for families displaced to North Lebanon in 2024

www.instagram.com/p/DVmKXK8DSkg/

Support for families Staying in South Lebanon – Donate on 4fund.com We are launching this appeal in response to the ongoing war in Lebanon and on the Lebanese people and isolation of families who have decided to remain in the South, despite the bombing of all bridges ...

Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them.

This is one I trust:
'Support for families Staying in South Lebanon'

4fund.com/7s9ab7

Lebanon’s Mental Health Emergency Response | Embrace (Powered by Donorbox) Lebanon’s Mental Health Emergency Response War and displacement are reshaping daily life across Lebanon. Families are leaving their homes, shelters are overcrowded, and communities are under attack. T...

Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them.

This is one I trust:

Lebanon’s Mental Health Emergency Response

donorbox.org/embrace-leba...

Israel’s Lethal Hubris in Lebanon - Middle East Centre The official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, argues Yezid Sayigh. But Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran.

🚨 New blog: Israel's Lethal Hubris in Lebanon

While the official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran, writes @yezidsayigh.bsky.social

Read the full piece here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...

Israel’s Lethal Hubris in Lebanon - Middle East Centre The official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, argues Yezid Sayigh. But Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran.

While the official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear – complete disarmament of Hezbollah – Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran, writes @yezidsayigh.bsky.social @carnegiemec.bsky.social on the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social blog.

March 28 could be the biggest protest in US history — let’s all help make it so. Find your local No Kings demonstration to make it clear that America rejects the Trump regime’s brutality at home and abroad.

Israel’s Lethal Hubris in Lebanon Israel may be able to inflict massive physical damage, but the notion that it can reshape Lebanese society and politics is sheer hubris

My latest commentary on Israeli hubris in Lebanon and its destructive effects

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The Gulf Between Us I was seven when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The memories of a child are vague and grainy, and I cannot vouch for their fidelity, but three images have stayed with me with the sharpness of things tha...

On the real tensions brewing in the Gulf that won’t make it in lazy headlines.

Must thank Jadaliyya editors for giving me the space to do this.