For More Than Three Decades, Qatar Has Flourished by Playing All Sides
A strategy of means, not ends
HistoryPhilosophy
The Abrahamic Metacritique.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Middle Eastern history, Arab intellectual life, philosophy, and politics.
Recent essays
30 of 51The Unfinished Drama of Two Histories
On Muslim Migration and the Long Revolt Against Jerusalem, or, Notes Toward a History of Western Dissolution
Yet More Flying Notes From Egypt
The Confessions of a Very Reasonable Man
The Art of Blaming Israel For Everything
Notes Toward an Autopsy of Anti-Zionism
Brotherist Without Being a Brother
Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood
Intifada Everywhere All at Once
On the other October 7th
Ye Have Troubled Me
Why Israel Must Reclaim the Monopoly of Violence from Jewish Extremism in the West Bank
Lost for Words
On the Use and Abuse of Genocide and Other Words
A World of Hurt
The Middle East Three Years After October 7
The Battle of All Poets and Authors
On the story of how Revolution remade Arab letters, antisemitic poetry, and other things
How One Becomes Everything and Nothing
On Third Worldism and Willed Meaning
How October 7 Inherited the Guilt of September 11
The West’s habit of converting mass murder into self-recrimination moved from Ground Zero to Gaza
Death and Sex in Palestine, Part II
The Erotics of Sacrifice
The Origin of the Necropolis
Follow up on Death and Sex in Palestine
Signs and Existence
On Signs, Reality, and Language Between Nietzsche and Hamann
Old-New Anti-Semitism
The infinite reproducibility of anti-Semitism
The Power of Ideas Or Ideas of Power
The Idea of Palestine in Democratic Politics
Death and Sex in Palestine
The Visual Culture of Palestinian Martyrdom and the Erotics of Sacrifice
There Are No Heroes Here
Arday the Miracle, Arday the Fraud
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought
Textdämmerung
On Arday, the EU, and How One Philosophizes with a Chatbot
Third Time Is the Charm?
The Mecca Pact and the Sad History of Collective Defense
The Triumph of the Iranian Will
Where do we go from here?
It Will Only Get Worse
Dem Third World Queer-Palestine Communism and the End of History
Podcast: The Political Economy of Palestine
Russ Roberts and Hussein Mansour discussing "Metacritique of Palestine"
Arabs and the Global Left
Palestine and and Its Discontents
The Pathos of Modern Islam
On the Post-Christian Grammar of Modern Muslim Thought
After Prophecy
Preserving Value and Order Under Divine Concealment, a Religious Phenomenology of Modern Life and Politics
The Lachrymose Self-Conception of Liberal Society
Homicidal Empathy and the Dreams of Innocence
Saudi Arabia’s Challenge to the Abraham Accords
A New Regional Vision Without Israel