Author: Farooq Sulehria

review

Media and Empire in Afghanistan

By: Farooq Sulehria Summer 2026

Farooq Sulehria reviews the new edited volume Propaganda, Communication and Empire, a critical analysis of media representation of western intervention in Afghanistan.

Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War

By: Farooq SulehriaMarch 4, 2026

In this conversation with Alternative Viewpoint, Pakistani left activist, academic and journalist Farooq Sulehria examines the

The Arab Winter as "Morbid Symptom"

By: Farooq SulehriaJuly 15, 2016

Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising. Stanford: Stanford Univeristy Press, 2016. 240 pp. $21.95.

The title of Gilbert Achcar’s latest book is derived from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born, in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.

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