Join us for a discussion of Palestinian anarchist Mohammed Bamyeh’s article on the 2010-12 uprisings that swept through north Africa and the middle east, overthrowing dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
For our next reading we are delving into “Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments.”
Bamyeh was a participant in the uprising in Egypt and writes from firsthand experience. He has authored numerous books, notably Anarchy as Order (2009) and Lifeworlds of Islam: The Pragmatics of a Religion (2019).
As always, we will be meeting at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra street, unceded Lekwungen territory. The next session will take place on Sunday, March 31st at 6:30pm.
The essay “There Is No Revolution without Madness.” explores what it means to be dedicated to an opposition to empire and to be confronted with the violence of the status quo, and the machinations of the normative “rational” ideology.