The main accomplishment is that the popular movement is boiling everywhere. This is something completely new in the region

Gilbert Achcar spoke to Jacques Babel about his forthcoming book on the Arab revolt

An interview on the current situation in Syria

Interview on the forthcoming book, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

We are only at the beginning of a very long revolutionary process

What has been going on since then is what I call a long-term revolutionary process. And this is a long-term process, it's not just three weeks or six months or whatever

Interview on nuclear-free zone in Middle East and threatening Iran

There are various variants of the narrative, but basically Israel is presented as kind of a redemption for the crimes of Nazism and the rest, and that is why Israel keeps saying it's the responsibility of the West to support Israel

The minimal conditions for peace would be the complete evacuation by Israel of all the territories occupied in 1967 and the dismantlement of the settlements

Interview on the attack on Gaza and renewed U.S. alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood

‘Freedom to criticize religion is a major touchstone of the right to free expression,’ Gilbert Achcar says in an interview with Farooq Sulehria

Militarisation leads to colossal destruction and to a degeneration of the opposition that threatens the nascent democracy, because military organisations are rarely democratic

Ineterview on The Arabs and the Holocaust

Comments on Gunter Grass's poem and the accusations of antisemitism

A central paradox of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia has been that youth movements and trade unions were central in overthrowing the dictatorships -- but in the subsequent elections, these forces were pushed to the margins. How can this parad...

A central paradox of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia has been that youth movements and trade unions were central in overthrowing the dictatorships -- but in the subsequent elections, these forces were pushed to the margins. How can this parad...

Questions for Gilbert Achcar on the situation in Syria and the role of Turkey and other nations.

Summing up the Arab Spring thus far

The revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia and is still in its in initial stage proved to the entire world that Arabs hate tyranny and yearn for freedom no less than any other people

A survey of developments in the first year of the Arab revolutions

A discussion of the revolutionary process in the Arab world

A survey of the state of the Arab revolutions

Critique of arguments for outside military intervention in Syria and comparison to the Egypt and Libya cases.

I denounce the tendency to present Palestinians or Arabs as one monolithic group, with authors speaking of the Arab discourse, the Palestinian discourse, or the Arab attitude in the singular

Gilbert Achcar's response to a smear from David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine and Campus Watch regarding a talk Achcar gave on his book, The Arabs and the Holocaust.

The two countries where the uprisings have been most successful so far, are the countries where the workers’ movement joined the fray

The Arab uprisings have shifted hero status from Osama bin Laden to the people, a shift that could backfire on the United States

Achcar responds to various criticisms of his views on Libya and discusses prospects for the future of Libya.

This interview was conducted as part of KPFA's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa Show

Achcar puts the Arab revolutions of the past year into context.