Negative Covenant
Objections to the Metacritique of Palestine
HistoryPhilosophy
The Abrahamic Metacritique.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Middle Eastern history, Arab intellectual life, philosophy, and politics.
Recent essays
30 of 34Broken Mirror
On Jewish Self-Presentation and Its Failures
A Metacritique of Palestine
On the Political Economy of a Word-Symbol
Western Civilization And Its Defense
Civilization, Historicism, and the Liberal Invention of Tradition
The War On the Abraham Accords
How a Coordinated International Campaign is Targeting the UAE
Everything Has Changed
The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz 3
Why Is There No Redemption in the Arabic Novel?
On Third-Worldist Literature, Mimetic Economy of Despair, and the Singularity of the Person
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Feed the Jews to the Mob
The Democratic Party Embraces Third Worldism
The Limits of Postmodern Statecraft
Rise, Ambition, and Crisis of Emirati Statecraft
The Beginnings of Mahfouzland
The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz
Antisemitism Has a Big Future
On the Production of Prejudice and the Prejudice of Production
One Damn Thing After Another
Cycles of Power and Ambition in the Middle East
Where Do We Go From Here?
The Strategic Endgame of Operation Epic Fury
Years Of Crisis And Decision
The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz
Nick Fuentes Is Tired
Debunking and Its Discontents
The Philosopher Of The Revolution
Ali Shariati, the Literary Mind, and the Making of the Islamic Republic
The Post-Christian Condition
More sentiment, more spectacle, more fillers, and more AI slop
The End of Qatari Exceptionalism
Can Qatar Shed Islamism?
Day Four
A TAM War Update
Iran's Gulf Gambit
A Bet Against a Ticking Clock
How Near Is the End?
The Deferred Reckoning with Iran and the Reshaping of the Middle East
The Islam That Never Was
Ottoman Pan-Islamism and the Invention of Muslim Unity
Review and Critique: Men Who Kill Themselves
The Anti-Erotic Graveyard of Contemporary American Letters
Anti-Zionism and the Homecoming of Critical Theory
Abdul Wahab al-Messiri's Critical Islam and the Encyclopedia of the Jews
The Persistence of Nothing
John Rawls, the Great Emptying, and the Thinning of the Western Mind
The Rifle and the Bard
How Palestine Became Revolution
The Third Act
Jeffrey Epstein and the Prestige Economy
The Rise, Triumph, and Crisis of Jewish Conservatism
Jewish Intellectuals and the Post-Christian Right
Contested Order
The Structure of End-State Competition in the Red Sea
More Flying Notes From Egypt
The Confessions of a Very Modest Man