Gilbert Achcar, academic, writer, and socialist activist, lived in Lebanon for many years before moving to France where he teaches politics and international relations at the University of Paris-VIII. He’s a frequent contributor to
Le Monde Diplomatique and is the author of several books on contemporary politics. He is the author of
The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (2d ed., 2006), and
Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (2004), both published by Monthly Review Press. His two latest books are, with Noam Chomsky,
Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007), and with Michel Warschawski,
33-day War: Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and its Consequences (2007).