Independent reviews & (re)publication of books of ongoing relevance that have been under-appreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted since their release.
Featuring the work of so many great writers, our first collected reviews volume is published today & available to buy direct on the @Ebb_Magazine website. Every copy sold will help contribute to continuing our work highlighting neglected & important texts. https://t.co/JskOW7ovxD
Check out my discussion with @IMIXWHATILIKE on Ghassan Kanafani’s really important work and sadly relevant work, On Zionist Literature 🇵🇸
https://t.co/7YJTlM3Ead
I wrote for @LiberatedTexts about the 2003 autobiography of Chin Peng, former head of the Communist Party of Malaya, who led anti-colonial resistance against this violent counter-insurgency war waged by the British from 1948–1960: https://t.co/NBuLokLCNU…
Sabri Jiryis’s magisterial book, "The Foundations of Zionism," illustrates how the stories that Zionists tell of themselves, to themselves, are often the most damning indictments of Zionism, writes Nicholas Glastonbury
https://t.co/LvKwrXi7Bw
#BooksOnPalestine review:
'The Foundations of Zionism' is a major work of Palestinian historical scholarship by Sabri Jiryis that feels uncannily timely in 2026.
https://t.co/U5emorCxvw
📚Book review: First published in Arabic across two volumes in 1977 and 1986, and now translated and edited by his daughter Fida, The Foundations of Zionism is a major work of Palestinian historical scholarship by Sabri Jiryis that feels uncannily timely in 2026 ⤵️
So the Malaysian Home Ministry has just banned the memoir of Shamsiah Fakeh—leader of the Conscious Women’s Movement (AWAS) & a member of the 10th Regiment of the Malayan Communist Party—which was first published in 2004 by UKM.
What is your govt so afraid of, @anwaribrahim?
Now up: Sasha Frere-Jones (@sashafrerejones) reviews the new edition of Palestinian writer & lawyer Sabri Jiyris's "The Foundations of Zionism" (translated by his daughter Fida for @EbbBooks). As Jiyris says: the book "is what you, my good Israelis, said."
https://t.co/rishQBlQYw
I’ve been banned from entering Singapore & was just deported to Malaysia. I asked immigration to provide the grounds for the ban/deportation, but they said they could not disclose them. It’s stunning bcs I stayed there for 5 years & was conferred a doctoral degree on 31 January.
Patrick Higgins writes on the criminally under-known life and work of Dr. Basil Kubaisi– the Iraqi historian, Arab nationalist, and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary assassinated by Israel in April 1973.
https://t.co/fIIqpBRJdG
Amazing article by Patrick Higgins on Basil al-Kubaisi, the academic & revolutionary Iraqi who joined the Palestinian Revolution. Very enlightening read!!
Patrick Higgins writes on the criminally under-known life and work of Dr. Basil Kubaisi– the Iraqi historian, Arab nationalist, and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary assassinated by Israel in April 1973.
https://t.co/fIIqpBRJdG
Remarkable article by Patrick Higgins on the life & work of historian & revolutionary Basil Al-Kubaisi - 'rare among historians in that he really did combine thought with action, capable of brandishing either the pen or the rifle as the occasion demanded'.
https://t.co/AWO3hia8Ko