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Capital and conflict in Turkey

The Taksim Square occupation movement in Turkey makes explicit the structural contradiction between the ruling elites with their neoliberal leanings a

Saadat Hasan Manto - Pakistani- Indian writer- Photo Mandatory credit -Manto family archives

Manto’s Pakistan

Writing in the 1940s and early 1950s, even before Pakistan’s first military coup, Manto was surprisingly prescient about the dangers confronting conte

Marx in Manto

Some of Mantos essays bring out his admiration for and sympathy with the ideas of Karl Marx and the Bolshevik revolution.

The underdog and the odd one out

Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto, one of the greatest Urdu writers of the 20th century, on his birth centenary.

In Sana'a, Yemen, a commemoration rally on March 18, one year after government snipers opened fire on a crowd of anti-government protesters. The slogan in Arabic reads, 'Overthrow the family dictatorial regime.' When protests broke out against the Ali Abdullah Saleh regime, he crushed the movement.-HANI MOHAMMED/AP

Rebirth of hope

The period in Arab history which inaugurated the uprisings of the 1950s has now come full circle with the Arab Spring.

A protester at a demonstration in Sana'a demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, on September 23. The writing on her hand, in Arabic, reads: 'Our blood is fuel for our revolution'.-MOHAMMED AL-SAYAGHI/AP

Shades of the past

The way Washington and Riyadh are backing the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, the killings in Yemen are certain to go on.

APRIL 19, 1955: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt (right) in conversation with Prime Minister Seif el Islam el Hassen of Yemen during the Asian-African Conference in Bandung.-THE HINDU ARCHIVES

Ashes and roses

The Egyptian revolution of 1952 has a historical relevance in the post-Mubarak era.

Power and class

An excellent anthropological study of the southern part of Yemen; the book can help one understand the roots of the current conflict there.

Power and class

An excellent anthropological study of the southern part of Yemen; the book can help one understand the roots of the current conflict there.

Annals of resistance

Extraordinary stories of how people banished from history in Teheran and Nador have wielded control over their destinies.

Imperial follies

In its current perceptions of the Third World, Washington continues to rely on notions of national security and cultural imperialism.

Defying stereotypes

YEMEN and Lebanon are parts of the Arab world that are usually trivialised and exoticised in the mainstream Western media as states crucial to the Wes