by Nèdeem Al-Mahjoub نديم المحجوب

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Arabic Tutor and ESOL
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction “The Middle East has often been represented as an area in the world where one cannot speak about classes and where class analysis is least relevant…A survey of leading historical studies of the Middle East reveals a surprising reliance upon the class approach. Such prominent Orientalists and Islamic historians as Hamilton A.R. Gibb, W. Montgomery Watt, Bernard Lewis, Gustav E. von Grunbaum, S.D. Goitein, Roger Le Tourneau, Reuben Levy, and Jacques Berque have sporadically analysed the Middle East in terms of class. Yet, none of these scholars have endeavored (1) to examine systematically the meaning and relevance of this concept within the Islamic setting; and (2) to define rigorously and reshape the concept according to the area under consideration and the problems at issue.”(James A. Bill) [I]f constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Interests knowledge, politics, sociology, cultural theories, political economy, history, evolution, movies, travel, reading, erotism, capitalism and imperialism
Favorite Movies Pasolini's films', 'The Battle of Algiers', 'Life of Brian', 'Sophie Scholl', 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'James Collins', 'The Battleship Potemkine', ' Apocalypse Now', 'Spartacus', 'Red', 'Nana', 'La Bouffe', 'The Tit and the Moon', 'El Postino' (The Postman), Lola by Fassbinder, "Omar", "Alexanderplatz" by Fassbinder, "Papillon", "King Rat", City of Death and Life", some of Pedro Almodovar's movies, some of Youcef Chahine's, 'Three Kings', 'Taxi Driver', 'Gangs of New York', 'The Godfather', 'Bread and Roses', Escape from Pretoria The Nokdu Flower (South Korean historical drama)
Favorite Music Various
Favorite Books Tormented Births: Passage to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East by Isam al-Khafaji, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 1 by Jospeh Needham, Calculus of Power by Peter Gowan, The Man Who Loved Dogs" by Leonardo Padura, Debt, the IMF and the World Bank by E. Toussaint and D. Millet, Islam in Liberalism by Joseph Massad, Inglorious Empire by Shashi Thahroor, Liberalism - A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo, The Blood Never Dried by John Newsinger, This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder, '1984' and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky, One Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G. Marquez, Merchant Capital and Islam by Mahmood Ibrahim, Contemporary Arab Thought by Ibrahim Abu Rabi, Live Working or Die Fighting by Paul Mason, Culture and Imperialism by Edward Saïd, Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky, Rosa by Jonathan Rabb, La Condition Humaine by André Malraux, Candide by Voltaire, People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Al-joudhour Al-tarikhiya Lishshari'a Al-Islamiya by Khalil Abd Al-Karim, The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, The Sexual Revolution, and The Compulsory Invasion of Sexual Morality by Wilhelm Reich, London - City of Sin and "Necropolis" by Catharine Arnold, The People Want by Gilbert Achcar, "The Slave Trade" by Hugh Thomas, "The Age of Capital", "The Age of Empire", "The Age of Revolution" and "The Age of Extremes" by Eric Hobsbawm, 'Endless War' by David Keen, The Enigma of Capital' by David Harvey, Capitalism and Class in the Arab Gulf States by Adam Hanieh, A Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey, Capital Vol.1 by Karl Marx, The Sun in a Cloudy Day by Hanna Minah, The Children of the Alley (the Arabic original version) by Naguib Mahfoudh, Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfoudh