Career
He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. Gilbert Achcar is a Fellow at the International Institute for Research and Education.
In March 2011, he wrote an article for ZNet that provoked a debate within the international left on the position towards the coalition intervention in Libya for humanitarian reasons.
He gave his support in March 2013 to the campaign of film director Ken Loach and activist Kate Hudson for a new left-wing party in the United Kingdom.
Books
Achcar, Gilbert. The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder.
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Articles and interviews
Interview with State of Nature (March 2006)
Interview with the Alternative Information Center, "American, Israeli and Iranian Strategies in the Middle East Conflict" (May 2008)
"Gilbert Achcar on the Middle East"
Interview with Gilbert Achcar: "The United States. is sowing the seeds of a long term tragedy.."
"The Arabs and the Holocaust: War of Narratives"
"Whither Egypt?"
On the Clash of Barbarisms from the Massacre in Paris to the United States. Occupation of Iraq (2015-2001-09), Democracy Now! Archive of Interviews (from 2011 to date), The Real News.
