...Jamila M. H. Mascat In his text on “La pensée révolutionnaire de Frantz Fanon,” published in Révolution africaine in 1964, while paying tribute to the intellectual and political courage of the author of The Wretched of the Earth , Mahdi Amel discusses the pitfalls of national cultures...

...Nadia Bou Ali Abstract This roundtable revolves around the translation of selections from Amel's book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Edward Said's Marx in “Orientalism , ” published in Arabic in 1986. The importance of bringing this Arabic text to an English and global...

...Surti Singh 13. Marx, “Future Results,” 217–18 . 14. Amel, “Is the Heart,” 492 . 15. Amel, “Is the Heart,” 493 . 16. In this respect, Amel exonerates Marx from the undeniably Eurocentric framework in which he made his remarks about India. 17. Perhaps...

... as a subsequently overcome phase in Marx's work can be found in K. Lindner and U. Lindner, “How Marx Got Rid.” 35. Marx, Contribution , 263 . 36. Marx, Contribution , 263 . 37. Bou Ali, “Mahdi Amel's Colonial Mode,” 248–49 . 38. Marx and Engels, The German Ideology , 37...

...Ziad Kiblawi © 2021 Ziad Kiblawi 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Mahdi Amel's Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Marx in Edward Said's “Orientalism” first appeared in article form...

... journalistic reflections on British rule in India, namely “the question of revolution, and its necessity, as a precondition for humanity's liberation in Asia.” 1 Amel's contention should be reckoned with in any serious confrontation with the presence of Orientalism or Eurocentrism in Marx's own thought...

...Mahdi Amel; Ziad Kiblawi [email protected] © 2021 Mahdi Amel 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). I begin by clarifying for the reader the purpose of this text: 1 In only four pages of his book...

...Nadia Bou Ali [email protected] © 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...

... includes two special 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...