... ). See also Hamdan and Khalil, “Mahdi Amel.” 28. Fanon, Wretched of the Earth , 30 . 29. Bou Ali, “Mahdi Amel's Colonial Mode,” 262 . 30. This is even more striking if, as Bou Ali highlights, “Amel's analysis ultimately leads him to reject the principles of Marx's critique...

... the particular site of their articulation. nb33@aub.edu.lb © 2021 Nadia Bou Ali 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Karl Marx Edward Said postcolonialism Arabic thought Mahdi Amel After the translation...

... of Marxism ( “Mahdi Amel's Colonial Mode,” 243 ). 4. See Adorno, Albert, and Dahrendorf, Positivist Dispute . 5. This is, of course, not a charge specific to Said, but in the 1980s it embodied the view of subaltern studies more generally. Similar to Amel's critique of Said, see Vivek...

... do find arguments that are worth considering; others, however, call for serious challenges. The first publication of an English translation of parts of Mahdi Amel's work—unfortunately ignored by Western scholarship so far—gives us the opportunity to revisit the encounter between Marxism...

... . Amel Mahdi . “ Al-Mumārasa al-naẓariyya wa-l-mumārasa al-siyāsiyya .” In Al-Naẓarīyya fī al-mumārasa al-siyāsīyya: Baḥth fī asbāb al-ḥarb al-ahlīyya fī Lubnān , 3rd ed., 11 – 22 . Beirut : Dar al-Farabi , 1990 . Amel Mahdi . Azmat al-ḥaḍāra al-ʿarabīyya am azmat al-burjuwāzīyāt al...

... features with Mahdi Amel's, as well as with the critique articulated by the Syrian intellectual Sadik Jalal al-ʿAzm, 14 Aijaz Ahmed captured the dramatic character of Marx's vision of the nexus between colonial dispossession and the future of revolution. What Said dismissed as a “Romantic redemptive...

...@aub.edu.lb © 2021 Nadia Bou Ali 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). In 1986, Mahdi Amel critiqued Edward Said's Foucauldian account of the interconnectedness of knowledge and power in Orientalism . Amel's main...

...Mahdi Amel; Ziad Kiblawi 20. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Marx, “The British Rule in India,” 320 . 21. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 171 . 22. Said, Orientalism , 155–7 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 172–73 . 23. I translate “al-jadīd” (the new) as “new...

... sections. The first highlights the work of Lebanese Marxist intellectual Mahdi Amel and in particular his book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Published in Arabic in 1986, Amel's book critically responds to Edward Said's Orientalism and in particular to Said's reading of Karl Marx...